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Resource Bottleneck Rx: Make AND Buy
To continue my diatribe about talent and capital … a recent Harvard Business Review article sent me back to our own recent research studies. The article, “Talent Management for the 21st Century,” likened the problems companies now face with finding or developing talent to the issues faced by manufac
Project Managers ... "Talent" or "Capital"?
So, it’s official … PM Solutions thought leadership continues to run about 10 years ahead of the times. For example, we said the title Chief Project Officer would come into use in our 2001 book, The Strategic Project Office and by 2007 we were collecting business cards at every project management
Value, and Corporate Values
Johanna Mickel’s blog about a presentation at the Gartner Symposium tied in neatly with a theme that Allen Young had been expanding upon earlier on this blog: that of how you measure the value of project management processes (and of the PMO). To recap, Johanna described Gartner analyst Donna Fitz
Establish PMO Value Metrics Without Delay!
This blog was updated in May 2025. One of the issues that surfaced in the newly-released State of the PMO 2014 research study was that PMOs have a public relations problem: they are delivering value (significant value: see the graphic from the study at right), but they have trouble communicating th
Updated Study Shows Steady Growth in PMO Influence and Capabilities
The fourth iteration of our biennial study on The State of the PMO was released last week. The data holds few surprises, but confirms that the PMO as an organizational resource continues to grow in capability and influence. In particular, it's always interesting to note how PMOs in high-performing