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Summertime ... and the Leavin' Is Easy
Recently, the HR director at our company shared a thought she had gleaned from one of her HR colleagues on the topic of exit interviews. Why, she asked, do we only do exit interviews? Instead of focusing on why people leave, why not ask the employees who stick around what keeps them engaged with our
The PMO ... It's Everywhere ... and It's Green
Yesterday's big news here was that the PMO of the Year Award judges had returned their results, and after crunching the numbers (applicants are evaluated on a wide array of factors, each of which is rated by the judge on a Likert scale, so the final choice comes down to, sometimes, a .01 difference)
The Project Support Office: Build It Right, the First Time
This blog was updated March 2025 Here's a trick question: What do you call a group that supports project management in an organization? If you answered Project Support Office (PSO), Project Management Office (PMO), Program Management Office, Hybrid PMO, Portfolio Management Office or an Enterprise
Ah, the Bad Old Days ...
We've just finished prepping the Second Edition of Kent's award-winning book, The Strategic Project Office, for press. (Look for it to be available this October.) The first edition came out in 2001, but was mostly written and edited in 2000, and it was a big job to incorporate the changes that have
Why Is Resource Management So Hard?
If you missed Kent Crawford's webcast on Resource Management Challenges May 25th (like I did), you might want to listen to the recorded version available here. This isn't a new topic for us, but it was interesting to see, in our recent State of the PMO study, that even the most mature enterprise PMO