A Bittersweet PMI Congress

October 26, 2011 | by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

PMI's annual conference was different this year.  As a long time member … my 21st consecutive symposium … there was an energy missing.  That energy was Eric Jennet, one of PMI’s original founders.  Eric died on Friday at the age of 86.  He was a character … he called it the way he saw it, and was no

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PMI Congress Kicks Off Today!

October 23, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

The annual PMI Global Congress-North America opened this morning in Dallas, Texas. If you are there, stop by and visit our booth on the tradeshow floor, where Michele Stephano will be holding down the fort along with other PM Solutions and PM College folks. Our new book, An Inside Look at High-Perfo

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California Government IT Moves Beyond Dreamin' to Measurable Performance

October 21, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Interviewing the California Technology Agency's voluble and diverse team over the phone is something of a challenge, especially when  they get excited. And they are justifiably excited about the Agency's recent honor as finalist in the PMO of the Year Award competition. Judges cited the state agency

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Nationwide Insurance: Centralized IT Project Management Scores Big

October 13, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. Nationwide Insurance's IT function found that, while a PMO can improve project delivery, ten or more PMOs scattered across the enterprise, with over 300 project managers all pursuing projects in different ways, led to inefficiencies. The improveme

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The Inside Look: Don't Miss It

September 24, 2011 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just a week or so before our new book, An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs, hits the shelves - literally and virutally - at Amazon.com. We are excited to share a compendium of practices from the best PMOs in the business, and to kick off the book release, J. Kent Crawford will be leading a free w

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