New Research Reveals a Perception Gap Between Leaders and PMs

May 20, 2015 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Over the years, our research has consistently shown that having an effective project manager on the job makes the difference between project success and project failure.  So we aren’t surprised by the results from PM College’s latest study, “Project Manager Skills Benchmark 2015,” showing that organ

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Don’t Be a “Fool with a Tool”: Lessons Learned from the EPPM Tool Trenches

October 29, 2014 | by Allen Young

PC-based project management software tools arrived on the scene in the early to mid-1980s; the first ones had crude graphics and reporting that was limited by today’s standards. The real value-add was the relational database network used to track a project schedule. For the first time, project manag

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Those Pesky Cultural Barriers: An Interview with Allen Young

September 4, 2013 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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

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MOTOR PMO Attacks Two Difficult Issues: Resource Management and Acquisition Integration

September 6, 2012 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

What do Good Housekeeping magazine, ESPN, The San Francisco Chronicle and a business-to-business provider of technical information for the automotive industry have in common? They are all part of the Hearst Corporation, one of the nation’s largest diversified media and information companies, owner

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Organizational Change Management: Capacity

August 6, 2012 | by Allen Young

Like maturity (see previous post here), capacity doesn’t always come up as a significant factor in Organizational Change Management (OCM) discussions but in my experience it is equally as important. Capacity actually has to be considered from two perspectives: individual and organizational capacity.

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