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Risky Business: PMI Study Charts a Dip in Project Success Rates
Last week, our CEO Kent Crawford presented a webinar on strategies to recover troubled or failing projects to a large audience. The questions they submitted for the Q&A displayed just how much worry and stress failing projects create for project managers. We will be interviewing Kent on this blo
How Many Projects Per PM? It Depends.
Last week, one of our consultants came to us with a question from a client: "What is the ideal or standard number of projects per project manager?" Questions like this are the heart of our research program. We aren’t academics and don’t aspire to be. PM Solutions Research was established to find th
An Interview with John McIntyre of Ticketmaster International's PMO
All three of this year’s finalists share a business model of leveraging IT to deliver services. In the case of UK-based Ticketmaster International (TMI), the service they provide is … fun. Across 13 markets (not including the U.S.), TMI is there at the touch of a button to hook up fans with their fa
From Resistance to Results: PMO of the Year Finalist Symcor
Symcor is one of those back-office businesses that you never think about, but upon which you rely every day. The millions of transactions that they process, from checks and ATM visits to statements and other documents, must happen seamlessly and to a standard of quality that can only be described as
How PMOs Are Changing to Cope with Resource Management Issues
My first introduction to the concept of a “project office” came in 2000, when I covered a Project Management Benchmarking Forum in Scottsdale, AZ for the newsletter then being published by this organization (The Best Practices Report). The forums were the brainchild of a University of Phoenix profes