Showing 30 posts tagged with: "strategy execution"

Mar 20, 2024

Project Management as a Service: Three Phases of Integration

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Lacking flexibility and adaptability in project management is a major cause of unsuccessful projects, long timelines, and budget overruns, especially in times of change and major business shifts. A new, scalable solution is Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). PMaaS manages all of the challenges of staffing, resource allocation, and remote work communication.  … Read More »

Mar 13, 2024

When You Needed Results Yesterday: Understanding the Role of Project Management as a Service (PMaaS)

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The deadline for a critical project, one that could make or break your company's future, is on the horizon. Facing the dual challenges of urgency and complexity, project management leadership makes a game-changing decision: to embrace Project Management as a Service (PMaaS).Why PMaaS?For project managers and PMOs, the task of navigating through… Read More »

Jan 10, 2024

What We Mean When We Say PM as a Service

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Today’s publication release from PM Solutions gives you a deep dive into the way we practice Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Describing a timeline of the process and giving some background on the personnel we deploy, this paper above all focuses on the important concept of partnership as central to a PMaaS… Read More »

Dec 29, 2023

A Festively Decorated Big Box of …. What Now?!

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As 2023 comes to a close, my first thought is I’m glad PMI added “Uncertainty” to the PMBOK Guide.The stock market, inexplicably soaring in the face of gloom from economists and pundits; a globe beset by seemingly unresolvable conflicts; a new technology that even its inventors express concern about, and which… Read More »

Oct 16, 2023

Value Delivery Skills Webinar Attendees Had Questions: Here Are Some Answers

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We had a terrific group of attendees for our live webinar that aired Thursday October 5, when PM Solutions’ VP Client Success Eric Foss and I covered the top findings from our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. (If you missed it, you can find the recording here.)As always during these events,… Read More »

Aug 21, 2023

Seven Actions for the Adaptive Organization

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In 2021, I looked at all the available research on how companies were thriving in spite of the pandemic--including our own, How We Thrived: Virtual Project Management Practices During the Pandemic and Beyond. The resulting white paper, Establishing the Adaptive Organization offered seven ways that organizations could use the learnings from a time of crisis to… Read More »

Apr 6, 2023

High Performers Value These Skills. Hint: They Aren’t What You Think

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Last week, I presented a sneak preview of the results from our newest research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery, on the Great IT Pro platform. This report is still being finalized, and will be released to the public in a few weeks. Here’s a recap of what I shared with them. … 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 »

Jan 17, 2023

Managing Projects…Or Delivering Value? Eric Foss’s Challenge to Project Managers

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Next week, we’ll be launching our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. This study set out to renew the data we collected in our 2015 study, Project Manager Skills Benchmark. But as we looked at the questions and skills we previously asked about, we realized how much project management practice has changed. … Read More »

Dec 30, 2022

A Look Forward, With Hope and Confidence

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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 »

Dec 14, 2022

Some Thoughts About Governance, PMOs and the Thinking Project Manager

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Post-PMI Summit, I found myself re-doing a number of the slides for my upcoming Great IT Pro webinar on PMO Governance (join us Dec. 22). The chance to hear the thoughts of other project management experts and professionals in sessions that covered topics from Artificial Intelligence to futurism to resource management ... and the chance to… Read More »

Dec 2, 2022

This EPMO Has a Superpower: Intentionality

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Thrill of the day here at the PMI Global Summit: seeing our former client Ontario Power Generation score in the Top Three in the PMI PMO of the Year Award. OPG's Director of Project Services, Tracy Leung, and her colleague Rania McLarty, Manager, Project Controls, shared their pride and enthusiasm about their PMO's… Read More »

Dec 2, 2022

The Future is Already Here for These PMOs

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Yesterday during the opening keynote of the PMI Global Summit here in Las Vegas, the speaker, Amy Webb, a futurist and best-selling author, urged project managers to "move up the value chain."She's correct, of course, in thinking that project management experts deserve a seat at the strategic level of organizations. The signature capabilities… Read More »

Nov 28, 2022

Agile or "agile"? That Is the Question

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An eon ago -- in October just before everyone in my family came down with Covid--I promised two more installments of blogs covering the lingering questions from our research webinar,Q: I represent IT sector and I provide and implement Agile processes. Where is a border line between managerial processes and development processes in your… Read More »

Jul 13, 2022

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

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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?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

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 »

Oct 25, 2021

Just How Adaptive is the PM Maturity Model?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

We’ve got more webinar attendee questions today. Also stay tuned for a blog from our Agile SME Sydni Neptune, answering additional webinar attendee questions specific to Agile. I’m also going to circle back to some questions I answered during the live event on October 21—questions about agile environments which, had… Read More »

Jun 24, 2021

Project Management Carried On During 2020: Here's How

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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 17, 2020

Agile Tools, Agile Mindset: What's More Important?

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

The attendees in my virtual presentation at the PMI Virtual Experience event asked such great questions! But there were a few left in the queue when we ran out of time. Today, and in two more blogs after the holidays, I'll be answering these remaining questions, as well as encouraging readers to get in… 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 »

Jul 8, 2020

Another Covid-Era Success Story: New Agile Maturity Model Unveiled

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Last week, I shared the story of a new training program developed by PM College with the help of PPP (Payroll Protection Program) funding. I think the example of a business using these disaster relief funds to create new services for customers—services tailor-made for our present circumstances—while keeping employees on the… Read More »

Jun 11, 2020

Re-Opening Wisely: How Expert Project Management Can Help

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We've just published a new research brief that gathers onto one page some insights for organization leaders who want to get back to business, but do so wisely. Recognizing that every organization is facing an unprecedented need for agility in kicking off and delivering an array of new programs associated with how their employees… 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 »

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