Risky Business: PMI Study Charts a Dip in Project Success Rates

April 18, 2016 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Last week, our CEO Kent Crawford presented a webinar on strategies to recover troubled or failing projects to a large audience. The questions they submitted for the Q&A displayed just how much worry and stress failing projects create for project managers. We will be interviewing Kent on this blo

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2016 Challenge for PMOs: Document Time-to-Value

February 26, 2016 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

For the first decade that I wrote about and reported on project management, almost nobody in the wider business press was talking about PM at all. I became adept at reading between the lines in business, management, strategy, and software/IT publications, looking for ways that their trends and pain-

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How Many Projects Per PM? It Depends.

January 27, 2016 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Last week, one of our consultants came to us with a question from a client: "What is the ideal or standard number of projects per project manager?" Questions like this are the heart of our research program. We aren’t academics and don’t aspire to be. PM Solutions Research was established to find th

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Embedding Project Portfolio Management in Your Organization

December 1, 2015

Project portfolio management was the theme of this year’s PMO Symposium. We outlined some of the key lessons learned here and there. In this post, we will look at the first three stages of how project portfolio processes are put into practice: assessment, improvement, and reporting/analysis. Projec

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An Interview with John McIntyre of Ticketmaster International's PMO

November 20, 2015 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

All three of this year’s finalists share a business model of leveraging IT to deliver services. In the case of UK-based Ticketmaster International (TMI), the service they provide is … fun. Across 13 markets (not including the U.S.), TMI is there at the touch of a button to hook up fans with their fa

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