Showing 30 posts tagged with: "pmo research"

Feb 22, 2024

PMaaS and Organizational Performance, Then and Now

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

One of the most gratifying things about working for the same organization for decades—something I’d never thought would be possible, but here I am, 24 years later—is that it gives you the ability to see trends and patterns that a shorter time-box would obscure.One of the things that has… Read More »

Feb 22, 2023

Skills for Value Delivery: Your Input Needed (Through Feb. 24)

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

So, you missed the deadline to contribute your views to our 2023 Project Management Skills for Value Delivery? Never mind, missed deadlines are a part of life, right? (Though maybe a little embarrassing for project management pros and journalists!) Some of your fellow procrastinators reached out to us over the weekend, and we've reopened the… Read More »

Dec 30, 2022

A Look Forward, With Hope and Confidence

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Coming up on the end of 2022, I'm at last going to answer the remaining question asked by one of our webinar attendees (view the full recorded webinar here) after participating in our online presentation about The State of the PMO 2022. I've saved the best for last because it spurs some thoughts on the… Read More »

Oct 27, 2022

State of the PMO Research Webinar – Your Questions, Answered: Part 1

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

If you asked a question after our recent webinar examining the qualities of high-performing PMOs, the answer may be here!  We had four questions that we did not have time to answer during the event: I’ll be responding to one about governmental agencies in the study today, and then one each week… Read More »

Oct 17, 2022

Will A.I. Kill the PMO? Part 3 in Our A.I. in PM Series

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If you’ve followed this series so far (See Part 1 and Part 2 on the PM College blog), you’ll know that we’re looking at both sides of the Artificial Intelligence in project management debate. I’m not ready to sign on as an enthusiast, but there are some powerful arguments… Read More »

Sep 12, 2022

PMO Research Reveal: What You'll Learn in This Week's Webinar

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There are 100 pages of data in The State of the PMO 2022, so I could present about it every week for months without repeating myself. In this week's webinar (sign up here, this Thursday, Sept. 15 at 2 pm ET) PM Solutions' VP, Client Success Eric Foss and I will be hitting the high points. A sampler:… Read More »

Aug 18, 2022

The Evolution of the Enterprise PMO: What Comes Next?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

This week, we’ve been updating one of our key white papers, Evolving the Established PMO, adding the most up-to-date statistics from our new research, The State of the PMO 2022. At the same time, I came across a research paper on the role of Artificial Intelligence in project management that had some interesting points… Read More »

Jul 13, 2022

Think Your Business Is Too Small for a PMO? Think Again.

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

One thing that makes a smaller organization more nimble, usually, is its size: there aren’t a lot of layers between decision makers and the boots on the ground.So it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that smaller organizations can derive value from adding more managerial infrastructure, but that’s the story we… Read More »

Jun 23, 2022

The Enterprise PMO Delivers

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Our newest research study, The State of the PMO 2022, compares and contrasts PMOs in participating organizations in a number of ways. One standout finding has been that PMOs that operate on the enterprise level outperform all others -- those established at the departmental level or business unit level-- on a majority of the key performance… Read More »

Jun 8, 2022

PMOs: New Research Shows Benefits Outweigh Cost

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A quarter-century of working at the interface between publishing and project management has shown me that, in at least one way, project management is a lot like editing: When it is done well, it's invisible.Perfect project delivery means ... nothing bad happened. To the outside observer (executives, for example, or users), it's like… Read More »

May 17, 2022

The PMO at 20: New Research Findings Released

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Hot off the presses! PM Solutions Research has just released the results of our new State of the PMO 2022 study. If you've been following us for a while, you may know that The State of the PMO has been our flagship research, repeated biennially from 2008 through 2016. During that time, we tracked the development of… Read More »

Feb 16, 2022

State of the PMO 2022: What's In It for Me?

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If you're like me, when you get an invitation to fill out a survey, your first thought is: why should I bother with this? What will I get out of it?In the case of The State of the PMO 2022, the answer is pretty clear. This study, performed every other year through 2016, has provided… Read More »

Feb 1, 2022

PMO Study Participants Get It. Do You?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

It's a long journey, this working life of ours. Sometimes it's a slog through a jungle, or a desert. Along the way, many forks in the road. Sometimes you can see the way ahead, but a lot of the time, you're down in the weeds. What distinguishes the lost and desperate from… Read More »

Jan 19, 2022

2022: What Is the State of Your PMO?

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For ten years, through 2016, PM Solutions Research conducted a study on the roles, functions, and maturity of PMOs. Over the course of that decade, we saw the PMO grow from a rare departmental unit with limited powers, to a widespread organizational feature that gave project management--and project managers--visibility and clout. As the average age of… Read More »

Nov 9, 2021

Webinar Attendees' Questions, Answered, Part 4: Agile, Transformation, Roles ... and the PMO

Posted by Sydni Neptune, PMP, CSM | 0 Comments

[Editor's Note: Continuing our series of responses to questions asked by our webinar attendees, please welcome our Agile SME Sydni Neptune to the fray! The recorded webinar can be viewed here.]Q: What are the areas of work that can have the greatest impact to moving forward with agile transformation and improving maturity? Of… Read More »

Jun 24, 2021

Project Management Carried On During 2020: Here's How

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

In Jan. 2021, PM Solutions Research conducted a survey to determine what project management strategies companies had used during the pandemic to continue meeting goals, and how well those had worked, both within projects and for the organization as a whole.The most compelling finding was that organizations achieved better performance in 2020 than in previous years! … Read More »

Apr 15, 2021

The SAFe PMO: Two Experts Respond

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Two attendees to our Dec. 9, 2020 PMI Virtual Event that focused on the Agile PMO had specific questions about the use of the Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe®), so I pulled in two of our Agile SMEs for interviews. Here at last is an edited transcript of our conversation, held via Microsoft Teams in January 2021.… Read More »

Feb 1, 2021

Okay, My PMO is Agile. But Is It Mature?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Welcome to Part 2 of our three-part blog series exploring questions that were left unanswered at the end of my presentation during PMI's Dec. 9 virtual event (to read Part 1, click here.)Q: Is there a PMO maturity questionnaire and model that you would recommend and share?A: Yes … and no.There’s no… Read More »

Dec 1, 2020

Agility and the PMO: Findings from Our 2020 Research

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Here's my entire pitch for why your organization needs to build in agility:2020.Need I say more?One of the chief ways that organizational agility can be improved is by putting an agile, enterprise-level PMO in charge of developing that agility. PMOs lead the way in introducing agile methods and mindset, providing training and… Read More »

Sep 2, 2020

Some Quibbles, and then ... the Big Question

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

In our series of blogs addressing questions left unanswered at the end of our webinar (the recorded version is available here) on The State of Project Management 2020, I've left the biggest--and smallest--questions for last.In each webinar or in-person session (remember those? PMI conferences? Bad lighting, icky coffee? Don't you miss it?), there… Read More »

Aug 10, 2020

"PMBOK 7" and the Future State of Project Management

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Welcome back to our series where we respond to those questions asked by attendees at our webinar, which we did not have time to respond to during the event. (You can access the recording of the webinar here.) This week, I've grouped three questions that circle around the future state of project management:As… Read More »

Aug 3, 2020

"What's Up with Those Resource Management Statistics?"

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Each time we do a webinar, it is always frustrating to run out of time (and sometimes, out of answers!) before all the attendee questions can be responded to. Our July webinar covering the finding from The State of Project Management 2020 was no exception. I’ve sifted through the questions that went unanswered and… Read More »

Jun 2, 2020

Now What? Project Management Research Points the Way

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

We live in interesting times. Although the new research study officially released today, The State of Project Management 2020, was conceived of and designed last fall--a seeming lifetime ago!--the issues it frames, and the solutions offered, could not be more timely.If your organization has struggled to realize the full benefits of a maturing project… Read More »

Apr 30, 2020

Four Things to Do Right Now: Insights from New Research

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 2 Comments

When we created the survey questionnaire for The State of Project Management 2020, little did we realize what state we'd be in! Nevertheless, because project management is the thing that helps organizations rise to the occasion ... no matter how unprecedented that occasion may be ... we found helpful insights in the survey results. The full report… Read More »

Mar 11, 2020

Expert Help Reduces the Risk and Uncertainty in A Shift to Remote Work

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

As someone who has worked primarily from a home office for approximately 30 years, I confess to being somewhat amazed at the number of headlines about whether or not companies can move to remote work to protect employees and the public during the pandemic that is now upon us. I suppose I have been taking for… Read More »

Feb 14, 2020

Join Us on an Agile PMO Journey

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Our co-presentation with Preferred Mutual at last November's PMO Symposium was so well-recieved that we decided to reprise it as a webinar. Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 2 pm for a free (PDU available!) event as PM Solutions President Bruce Miller and Preferred Mutual's senior VP of Strategic Services, Michele Graham, discuss the 1… Read More »

Feb 11, 2020

State of PM 2020: Survey Deadline Extended One Week!

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Our newest research survey, The State of Project Management 2020, closed on January 31 ... but if you were procrastinating, you are in luck. We've reopened the survey for just one week to allow those who missed the deadline to be part of this study, which seeks to develop a picture of the current state as well… Read More »

Jan 28, 2020

Now or Never: What Is the State of PM in 2020?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Bloomberg.com kicked off 2020 by releasing a challenging list of the things business should be preparing for:A shift in political and economic power from West to East A sea-change in consumer habits, toward sustainability Humans outnumbered by connected devicesIt's mind-boggling to consider the role that project management will have to play in… Read More »

Dec 5, 2019

Organizational Change Management ... Hot Off the Presses!

Posted by Carrie Capili in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Project Management Training | 2 Comments

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest white paper Organizational Change Management Adds Agility to Strategy.The paper combines insights from organizational change management (OCM) and project / program management to give organizations in edge in effectively executing organizational strategies. With guidance from out papers, you'll be able to:Execute projects… Read More »

Nov 13, 2019

The Execs Look Back @PMOSym: Top Takeaways

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

I had the opportunity yesterday to chat with those of our executive team who attended the 2019 PMO Symposium. Here's a recap of their top insights and takeaways from what they all agreed was "a very impressive conference," "the best I've ever attended," and "much more engaging" than previous years.CEO J. Kent Crawford… Read More »

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