Insights

How We Thrived 2021

At the end of a chaotic year, many organizations look back on the changes they made on the fly or were forced into and wonder: where do we go from here? Business as usual, in many sectors, is either slow to return or perhaps being redefined. A wealth of new research studies have recently appeared th

TAGS: Project Management Trends

Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition ⇥

Released in April by CRC Press, this new edition includes components of agile/adaptive practice to allow organizations to gauge their progress towards agile transformation, in tandem with measuring their traditional project management maturity. Download an excerpt by filling in the request form to

Troubled Projects? Key Strategies for Quick Turnarounds

For decades, a theme has run through project management research: that project failures are common – in some studies, nearly as common as successes. While the statistics regarding project failure do remain sobering, the truth is that project recoveries are common – and they are highly successful.

TAGS: Project Management Training, Project Management Trends, Project Recovery

[Research Brief] The Adaptive PMO

The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management identified a number of best practices for PMOs in organizations striving to adopt adaptive and agile approaches to projects, programs, and portfolios. Now, we find that in high-performing organizations, the PMOs have

Evolving the Established PMO

Now the trend is toward the PMO as a strategic partner, with portfolio and benefits realization processes interwoven with strategy planning and execution. The "E" in EPMO might be said to include not just the enterprise, but the establishment of standards, engagement of stakeholders, and evolution o

TAGS: Methodology, PMO