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Why Some PMOs Last—and Others Thrive: Insights from the State of PPM Study
This blog was updated June 2025. In May, as a follow-on to our State of Project Portfolio Management 2013 study, we hosted a webinar featuring the study results that drew our largest audience ever, and which elicited hundreds of questions from attendees. Of course, in the limited time available dur
Research Study Underscores the Value of Focusing on the "Why" of Projects ... Not Just the How
From participation to publicity, we've been gratified by the response to our new study, The State of Project Portfolio Management 2013. As I noted in an earlier post, we received almost 10 times the number of survey participants as a similar survey a decade ago; the webinar presenting the study resu
A Worthwhile Quest: Measuring What's Important to Your Business
Metrics continues to be an elusive yet hot topic as evidenced by the crowd that Lars Mieritz drew at this morning’s Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit session, which was aptly titled “On the Quest for PPM KPIs and Metrics.” Lars covered a lot of ground during the session, including the key ele
The PMO as "Financial Advisor" to the Enterprise: A Glimpse into Verizon Wireless' Award-Winning Marketing PMO
This blog was updated in May 2025. We had planned to showcase a profile of Verizon Wireless Marketing PMO last Thursday on International Project Management Day, but those plans were ... well, overcome by events. It’s doubtful that anyone on the east coast was reading project management blogs last w
New PMO Capability Model Spurs Lively Discussion at PMI Global Congress
Wow! Thanks to all those who participated in my session Sunday at the PMI Global Congress in Vancouver, BC. We held an informal focus group on the topic of measuring PMO capability (or maturity), where I debuted a model our research division has been working on this year. The model, which we are cal