Organizations Are Only As Good As Their People

February 9, 2023 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

What skills are most important to your organization? Do your project management resources possess those skills? Is there a gap between what executives are looking for from project managers and what the project managers themselves think is important? Are your PMO staff members up to the challenge of

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New Research Launch: Project Management Skills for Value Delivery

January 24, 2023 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Several years ago we changed the timing of our research study launches to January, because this is the time of year when aspirations run high, both on the personal side (exercise daily!) and the organizational (transform our company!) This year's research topic feel especially apt: Project Managemen

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Managing Projects…Or Delivering Value? Eric Foss’s Challenge to Project Managers

January 17, 2023 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Next week, we’ll be launching our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. This study set out to renew the data we collected in our 2015 study, Project Manager Skills Benchmark. But as we looked at the questions and skills we previously asked about, we realized how much pro

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A Look Forward, With Hope and Confidence

December 30, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Coming up on the end of 2022, I'm at last going to answer the remaining question asked by one of our webinar attendees (view the full recorded webinar here) after participating in our online presentation about The State of the PMO 2022. I've saved the best for last because it spurs some thoughts on

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Some Thoughts About Governance, PMOs and the Thinking Project Manager

December 14, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Post-PMI Summit, I found myself re-doing a number of the slides for my upcoming Great IT Pro webinar on PMO Governance (join us Dec. 22). The chance to hear the thoughts of other project management experts and professionals in sessions that covered topics from Artificial Intelligence to futurism to

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