2012 PMO Forecast: Cloudy, with A Bright Horizon

November 28, 2011 | by J. Kent Crawford

This is the time of year when, although our personal energies may be focused on home and family for the holidays, our business energies leapfrog over the year's end: forecasts and budgets for 2012 loom large. What trends should we capitalize upon? What risks can we plan to dodge? Forecasting - bot

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Coming Soon: More Change and Uncertainty ... An Interview with Gartner Summit Attendee Barbara Preisz

June 21, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

The Gartner Summit going on this week in San  Diego is apparently the place to be, and since I am not there, I thought our readers would appreciate an inside view of the proceedings from someone who is. The Summit, with the subtitle "Embracing Uncertainty and Change: The Key to Driving Value in Tu

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Why Is Resource Management So Hard?

June 9, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

If you missed Kent Crawford's webcast on Resource Management Challenges May 25th (like I did), you might want to listen to the recorded version available here. This isn't a new topic for us, but it was interesting to see, in our recent State of the PMO study, that even the most mature enterprise PMO

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"Trust Me, Our PMO is Great!"

March 12, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Yesterday I listened in on my CEO Kent Crawford's webcast on "Unlocking the Value of the PMO" I was struck by the theme of the questions being asked by the participants. "What if you don't have the authority to implement resource management policies?" "How do you get the executive level to pay atten

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How Are We Doing?

January 11, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Around here, we believe in baselining ... otherwise, you can't tell if you are making any progress. The start of a new year seems an appropriate time to look around at the business environment, as well as our internal organizational environment, and make a few resolutions based on a clear-eyed view

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