Ah, the Bad Old Days ...

June 18, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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

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New Links Added to the Blogroll!

April 23, 2010 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

If you haven't perused some of the terrific sites we've linked to in our Blogroll (see the right column of this page, scroll down), you are missing out. Some of them provide helpful how-tos on skills for the project manager (Bright Hub, for example) while others serve as online communities with care

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A Postscript ... and Some News

July 14, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Just as I completed my last post, a colleague sent me an article with the very timely title "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Things that Never Happen" - which was my argument for why PMOs often succeed themselves out of business. The article, from 2001, focuses on quality management initiatives

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PMOs Moving Up the Ladder: Blessing or Curse?

June 8, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Our PMO Award winner and finalists had their day in the sun in Boston, and the brief case studies of their achievements have been posted on the PM Solutions website, for those of you who weren't able to be with us at the awards ceremony. It's an interesting thing about these case studies; this is

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Overheard at the Summit

May 20, 2009 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Eavesdropping on the attendees at the CBP Summit here in sunny Cambridge, Mass yielded the following gems: "Project management is like a 'black art' to the executives ... no one understands how it works. They kind of want it but are scared of it at the same time." "This merger is a little differ

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