Some Thoughts About Governance, PMOs and the Thinking Project Manager

December 14, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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

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This EPMO Has a Superpower: Intentionality

December 2, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 a

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The Future is Already Here for These PMOs

December 2, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 leve

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Agile or "agile"? That Is the Question

November 28, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 proc

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

October 27, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 for

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