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One Size PMO Does NOT Fit All
This blog was updated May 2025 A good deal has been written about Project Management Offices (PMOs) in terms of the services they provide and the associated governance structures that go with them. I’ve seen the suggested types of PMOs range from as few as three to as many as twelve in my travels.
2014 State of the PMO Closes March 4
Since 2008, PM Solutions Research has been keeping tabs on developments in organization design for project management. The State of the PMO studies, carried out every two years, have helped countless companies and practitioners understand and work with trends and challenges as PMOs have come into pl
OCM, The People Side: Leverage the Champions of Change
Continuing to flesh out the areas I’d like to see expanded on in any OCM model, let’s take a look at how the PMO and its people contribute to—or impede—an organization’s “change-ability.” According to PM Solutions’ own research, the majority of firms already have a PMO of some sort in place, and t
Those Pesky Cultural Barriers: An Interview with Allen Young
This blog was updated July 2025. This week’s interview with PM Solutions expert Allen Young, Account Executive, addresses questions from our May webinar around the cultural change aspects of Project Portfolio Management – and there were many! Obviously the human and cultural issues loom large for c
Measuring the Value of PPM: An Interview with J. Kent Crawford
Last week we kicked off a series of interviews with PM Solutions experts answering questions asked during our May webinar featuring The State of PPM 2013 – questions that we did not have time to answer during the event (note: the webinar is available for viewing here). This week, PM Solutions CEO J.