Expert Series 5: Project Manager Bandwidth

July 17, 2017 | by Victor L. Allen

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 peers as

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PMO Webinar Attendees: You Asked, Kent Crawford Answers!

July 5, 2017 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 process

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

June 28, 2017 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 proce

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A Question of Agility: Expert Answers on PMOs and Agile Processes

June 22, 2017 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

This blog was updated April 9th, 2024. In one of our webinars on The State of the PMO, we had a flood of great questions—so many, in fact, that we ran out of time to answer them all during the session.  A big chunk of those questions focused on the relationship between Agile methodologies and the

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

June 7, 2017 | by Pam Toth

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

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