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The Project Support Office: Build It Right, the First Time
This blog was updated March 2025 Here's a trick question: What do you call a group that supports project management in an organization? If you answered Project Support Office (PSO), Project Management Office (PMO), Program Management Office, Hybrid PMO, Portfolio Management Office or an Enterprise
Ah, the Bad Old Days ...
We've just finished prepping the Second Edition of Kent's award-winning book, The Strategic Project Office, for press. (Look for it to be available this October.) The first edition came out in 2001, but was mostly written and edited in 2000, and it was a big job to incorporate the changes that have
Why Is Resource Management So Hard?
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
The PMO: Worldwide ... and Global, Too
Just got done crunching some stats on the entries to the PMO of the Year Award competition, and thought I'd share them with our readers. Of the 40 PMOS (a new record number of applicants) in the running this year, 12 are outside
PMO Research Reveals Strengths, Challenges
It's gratifying when a trend you've been predicting ... and in some ways, leading and guiding ... becomes the norm. That's what has happened recently with the organizational clout and position of the PMO. Back in 2000, when I wrote The Strategic Project Office, the enterprise-level PMO that was acti