Join PM Solutions experts in discussing how to connect project performance and strategy execution

2016 Challenge for PMOs: Document Time-to-Value

February 26, 2016 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

For the first decade that I wrote about and reported on project management, almost nobody in the wider business press was talking about PM at all. I became adept at reading between the lines in business, management, strategy, and software/IT publications, looking for ways that their trends and pain-points related to our discipline. That...

Read Blog Post →

How Many Projects Per PM? It Depends.

January 27, 2016 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Last week, one of our consultants came to us with a question from a client: "What is the ideal or standard number of projects per project manager?"Questions like this are the heart of our research program. We aren’t academics, and don’t aspire to be. PM Solutions Research was established to...

Read Blog Post →

Embedding Project Portfolio Management in Your Organization

December 1, 2015 | by

Project portfolio management was the theme of this year’s PMO Symposium. We outlined some of the key lessons learned here and there. In this post, we will look at the first three stages of how project portfolio processes are put into practice: assessment, improvement, and reporting/analysis.Project Portfolio AssessmentJust like any...

Read Blog Post →

An Interview with John McIntyre of Ticketmaster International's PMO

November 20, 2015 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

All three of this year’s finalists share a business model of leveraging IT to deliver services. In the case of UK-based Ticketmaster International (TMI), the service they provide is … fun. Across 13 markets (not including the U.S.), TMI is there at the touch of a button to hook up fans with their...

Read Blog Post →

From Resistance to Results: PMO of the Year Finalist Symcor

November 19, 2015 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Symcor is one of those back-office businesses that you never think about, but upon which you rely every day. The millions of transactions that they process, from checks and ATM visits to statements and other documents, must happen seamlessly and to a standard of quality that can only be described as perfection. The next time...

Read Blog Post →