More On Governance and the PMO

June 25, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

I'd like to tie those last two posts together with a couple of thoughts engendered by listening to Kent's keynote, and by some of the conversations I shared with PMO directors at the Summit. "Governance" is in danger of becoming a buzzword. It's one of those ideas that many corporate leaders accep

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Governance: Taking It From the Top

June 7, 2009 | by J. Kent Crawford

I had the pleasure of delivering the keynote address at the CBP Summit this year, on the subject of PMO Governance. And, because the topic of governance always touches on areas in organizations where our assumptions rule ... where things that "can't" be questioned (but should be) take up residence .

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Overheard at the Summit

May 20, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Eavesdropping on the attendees at the CBP Summit here in sunny Cambridge, Mass yielded the following gems: "Project management is like a 'black art' to the executives ... no one understands how it works. They kind of want it but are scared of it at the same time." "This merger is a little differ

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2009: Thoughts from - and for - the C-Level

December 16, 2008 | by J. Kent Crawford

Whew! These are some challenging times. As I read the news daily I am struck by the fact that our economic woes are primarily management failures - failures in the areas of governance and strategy. This only inspires me to redouble my efforts to spread the word about integrating the strategic level

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