Showing 30 posts tagged with: "project management"

Oct 31, 2023

Jazzed Up About Project Management and AI

Posted by Matt Crawford | 0 Comments

During the first few days of last week's PMI Global Congress, I was inspired to jot down a few thoughts about my conference experience. Atlanta was definitely the largest number of attendees for a PMI event that I’ve attended.  AI, as expected, is a big theme of the conference and lots… Read More »

Jun 29, 2023

PMO Staff vs PMO Leaders: Realism or Pessimism?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

An interesting divide showed up between PMO leaders and PMO staff members in our most recent research, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. Across the board, whether they are rating their organiation's level of skills, scoring its project success, or ranking skills by importance, PMO staff members are less cheerful about the state of… Read More »

Nov 24, 2021

Increased Trust, Better Virtual Teaming, New Ways of Doing Business: Maybe 2020 Wasn’t All Bad

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Webinars can be deadly dull at times, even if you’re interested in the subject. We try to avoid putting the audience to sleep by incorporating live polls in our presentation. In October, during the How We Thrived webinar (view the recording here if you missed it!), I was particularly interested in knowing how… Read More »

Aug 10, 2021

Webinar Attendees' Questions, Answered, Part 1: What about PMBOK7?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

On July 27, we aired our most recent webinar, Project Management Maturity Meets the Agile Environment (click to view the recording), which was based on our recently-released book, The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition. As always, we'll respond to questions that we did not have time to answer during the event here on our… Read More »

Apr 21, 2021

Book Launch! The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition Released Today

Posted by Carrie Capili in Agile or Adaptive PM, Project & Program Management, Project Management Maturity | 0 Comments

Almost a year in the making, the newest edition of this book, based on PM Solutions’ time- and field-tested maturity model, includes assessment tools for organizations undergoing a transformation to Agile or adaptive project management approaches. These “Adaptive/Agile Environment” components and practice statements for each of the five maturity levels are… Read More »

Jan 26, 2021

PM Solutions Launches New Research Initiative Focused on Best Practices for Virtual Project and Program Management

Posted by Carrie Capili in Project & Program Management, Project Management Research | 0 Comments

PM Solutions, a project management consulting and training firm dedicated to helping organizations drive performance and operational efficiency, is pleased to announce our newest research initiative: Virtual Success: A Benchmark of Practices for Virtual Project and Program Management.By doing research on the various strategies, methods, and tools that organizations have used prior to the… 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 »

Apr 9, 2020

Just in Time: Project and Program Management Made in America … Expertly

Posted by Bruce Miller | 0 Comments

One of the questions that often comes up in RFPs is whether PM Solutions’ PMaaS service offering includes an offshore component.  Although we have served clients around the globe with consulting and training solutions, we prefer to deploy our own home-grown project management resources. Not only does this sidestep a variety of security… Read More »

Mar 24, 2020

PMaaS Thrives on Thought Leadership, Shared Resources

Posted by Bruce Miller | 0 Comments

It seems uncanny now, that I wrote this series on project management as a service (PMaaS) back in December, before the present health crisis made working together virtually a necessity in many industries. My first blog in the series explained how PM Solutions has long worked to perfect virtual project services and team learning. We'… 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 »

May 21, 2019

At ATD 2019: Two Views of the Human Factor at Work

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 0 Comments

Going from session to session at ATD (see more conference posts on the PM College blog) I had an object lesson in the dynamic my editor, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, wrote about on this blog just a couple weeks ago in "Tra-La, It's May; Stay Positive, People!"She wrote about using the technique of Appreciative Inquiry… Read More »

May 20, 2019

Oprah! Now That I Have Your Attention ... See Our Series about Talent Development This Week!

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 0 Comments

We are about to unleash a week's worth of reading on our PM College blog readers, covering all the amazing sessions that Crystal Busch and I are attending here at ATD 2019 in Washington, DC. But first ... that fantastic Monday morning keynote. If ATD was trying to get our attention, it worked.Oprah Winfrey started… Read More »

Apr 18, 2019

A Couple Surprising Facts about Sustainability

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 2 Comments

Earth Day is almost here, but that was not the inspiration for this column.In fact, the topic of sustainability was far from my mind when I went looking through recent articles in my favorite business publications, seeking an Aha! to kick off this week's blog. I followed a link to the MIT Sloan… Read More »

Jan 29, 2019

Register Today for "How Adaptive Is Your Organization? Key Success Factors in the Changing World of PM"

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Agile or Adaptive PM, Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Human Capital, Project Management Research, Site News | 0 Comments

Project management practice is in the midst of a sea-change. Adaptive methods that once occupied a specialist niche are being mainstreamed in response to a competitive climate that demands greater flexibility, more transparency, and faster results. As organizations continue to experiment with, and expand application of, hybrid/adaptive approaches, it’s important to pay… Read More »

Dec 4, 2018

New Thought Leadership by PM Solutions Experts

Posted by Carrie Capili | 1 Comment

We’re excited to announce the publication of the Fifth Edition of the American Management Association Handbook of Project Management! Our own editor-in-chief, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, serves as co-editor, with PMI Fellow Paul C. Dinsmore, PMP, of this classic text.The AMA Handbook, now published by HarperCollins Leadership, provides a comprehensive view of the project… Read More »

Aug 14, 2018

A Sneak Preview of The Adaptive Organization

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

We've just finish crunching the numbers from our newest research study, The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of the Changing Approaches to Project Management and while it will be a few more weeks before the final report is released, I thought I'd share a few statistics that I find particularly compelling.First, a caveat:… Read More »

Jul 25, 2018

Announcing Launch of Project Management Essentials, Fourth Edition

Posted by Carrie Capili | 0 Comments

PM College, the training division of PM Solutions, today announced the publication of its latest book – Project Management Essentials 4th Edition. For those new to project management, unofficial project managers, or project team members, Project Management Essentials is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to manage projects successfully. It is well-known as… Read More »

Jul 2, 2018

Weigh In: Adaptive Process Benchmark Study Closing Extended to July 11

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Hey, I know you are at the beach, but you should still take 15 minutes to add your voice to our current survey research.As organizations begin to grapple with bringing methodologies and practices, templates and tools, in line with the recent new edition of the PMBOK® Guide, wouldn't you like to know to… Read More »

Sep 6, 2017

New Research Strongly Links PMO and PPM Processes to Strategic Execution

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Although we have not released the formal research report yet, and the numbers are still being crunched, there are a couple things I found in reading through the raw data collected by our Strategy Execution Process Benchmark that I couldn't wait to share.Like the majority of companies out there, those that participated in… Read More »

Jul 17, 2017

Expert Series 5: Project Manager Bandwidth

Posted by Victor L. Allen | 1 Comment

Editor’s Note: This week we welcome back Vic Allen, director of project management,  DTE Energy, and co-author of Project Management for Experienced Project Managers, with the fifth in our “Expert Series” of blogs. You can read the whole series if you start here.A few years ago, one of my… Read More »

Jul 5, 2017

PMO Webinar Attendees: You Asked, Kent Crawford Answers!

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

In our May webinar/panel discussion of The State of the PMO 2016, we had a number of questions submitted by participants that there was not enough time to answer. I caught up with Kent Crawford by phone to get his responses to some of the questions that centered around PMO implementation and processes.Q: The… Read More »

Jun 28, 2017

New Research Study: How Do Project/Program Processes Impact Strategy Execution?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Last week we launched our newest research initiative The Strategic Execution Process Benchmark: Integrating Projects, Programs, and Portfolios for Strategic Success, and we are very excited about it. Over the 20 years that PM Solutions Research has been collecting data about project management processes, we have seen an increasing confluence of strategic planning and management with… Read More »

Jun 7, 2017

Expert Series 4: The Relationship between Project Manager and Steering Team Members

Posted by Pam Toth | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: We welcome back Pam Toth as one of our "expert" guest bloggers this week, treading the sensitive area between steering and being steered. For a boost on executive roles and responsibilities in project management, check out the PM College course, Project Management for Sponsors.When a project manager is assigned to any… Read More »

May 30, 2017

Common Problems of a PMO

Posted by Victor L. Allen | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: We welcome back guest blogger Victor Allen with some words of wisdom, gained though experience, on the challenges faced by PMOs. This is the third in our "Expert Series": You can read previous posts in the series here and here. For more on PMO challenges and trends, please download our latest research… Read More »

Apr 10, 2017

Why Assess PM Maturity?

Posted by Victor L. Allen | 1 Comment

Editor’s introduction: This week we inaugurate the first in our Expert Series, blogs by writers who have won our respect for their work “in the trenches” of project, program and organizational improvement. Today’s author, Victor Allen, is director of project management for Major Enterprise Projects at DTE Energy, the… Read More »

Apr 7, 2017

PM Solutions’ CEO and Founder J. Kent Crawford Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Posted by Carrie Capili | 0 Comments

We are delighted to announce that our president and founder, J. Kent Crawford, is the recipient of the 2017 PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors those who have made significant and continuous contributions over the entirety of their career to the field of project management. That is certainly true of Kent!With… Read More »

Sep 1, 2016

PM Solutions Short-Listed for Thought Leadership Marketing Award

Posted by Carrie Capili in Project Management Events, Project Management Research, Site News | 0 Comments

We just got word that PM Solutions/PM College has been named a finalist in the IT Services Marketing Association's 2016 awards program, and we are thrilled!While previous winners have been giants like Cisco and PwC, ITSMA recently created a category for small businesses like ours. Instead of submitting an application based on one… Read More »

Jun 22, 2016

Still Justifying Project Management in Your Organization? This Will Help!

Posted by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Governance, Performance Measurement, Project Management Research, Strategy Execution | 0 Comments

Companies are demanding to know the long-range benefits of building and implementing a project management culture. Simple financial measurements are not enough; a balanced family of measures is needed to get an overall picture of the health of your organization and its project management practices. A balanced family of measures can evolve into a powerful… Read More »

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