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PMOs: New Research Shows Benefits Outweigh Cost

June 8, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

A quarter-century of working at the interface between publishing and project management has shown me that, in at least one way, project management is a lot like editing: When it is done well, it's invisible.Perfect project delivery means ... nothing bad happened. To the outside observer (executives, for example, or users), it's like...

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The PMO at 20: New Research Findings Released

May 17, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Hot off the presses! PM Solutions Research has just released the results of our new State of the PMO 2022 study. If you've been following us for a while, you may know that The State of the PMO has been our flagship research, repeated biennially from 2008 through 2016. During that time, we tracked the development of...

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State of the PMO 2022: What's In It for Me?

February 16, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

If you're like me, when you get an invitation to fill out a survey, your first thought is: why should I bother with this? What will I get out of it?In the case of The State of the PMO 2022, the answer is pretty clear. This study, performed every other year through 2016, has provided...

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PMO Study Participants Get It. Do You?

February 1, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

It's a long journey, this working life of ours. Sometimes it's a slog through a jungle, or a desert. Along the way, many forks in the road. Sometimes you can see the way ahead, but a lot of the time, you're down in the weeds. What distinguishes the lost and desperate from...

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2022: What Is the State of Your PMO?

January 19, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

For ten years, through 2016, PM Solutions Research conducted a study on the roles, functions, and maturity of PMOs. Over the course of that decade, we saw the PMO grow from a rare departmental unit with limited powers, to a widespread organizational feature that gave project management--and project managers--visibility and clout. As the average age of...

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