Posted by Carrie Capili | 0 Comments

Despite the best intentions and efforts, your team struggles to achieve the desired project outcomes. You watch the project spiral out of control as deadlines slip and objectives seem unreachable, leading to frustration and dwindling confidence among stakeholders.  This scenario is all too familiar for many organizations, which find their PMOs stuck in a… Read More »

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One of the most gratifying things about working for the same organization for decades—something I’d never thought would be possible, but here I am, 24 years later—is that it gives you the ability to see trends and patterns that a shorter time-box would obscure. One of the things that has… Read More »

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Our 2024 research study is now live! Head over to The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management 2024 to contribute your viewpoints. This year’s study revisits our 2018 survey of how organizations are implementing agile and adaptive practices in project management—always a great way to see the trends in project… Read More »

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Several years ago we changed the timing of our research study launches to January, because this is the time of year when aspirations run high, both on the personal side (exercise daily!) and the organizational (transform our company!) This year's research topic feel especially apt: Project Management Skills for Value Delivery reflects the changing… Read More »

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This week, we’ve been updating one of our key white papers, Evolving the Established PMO, adding the most up-to-date statistics from our new research, The State of the PMO 2022. At the same time, I came across a research paper on the role of Artificial Intelligence in project management that had some interesting points… Read More »

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This blog was updated in May 2025. A quarter-century of working at the intersection of publishing and project management has taught me that, in at least one crucial way, project management mirrors editing: when it’s done exceptionally well, it becomes almost invisible. Perfect project delivery translates to... nothing bad happening. To the outside world… Read More »

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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 »

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It's a long journey, this working life of ours. Sometimes it's a slog through a jungle, or a desert. Along the way, many forks in the road. Sometimes you can see the way ahead, but a lot of the time, you're down in the weeds. What distinguishes the lost and desperate from… Read More »

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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 »

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On July 27, we aired our most recent webinar, Project Management Maturity Meets the Agile Environment (click to view the recording), which was based on our recently-released book, The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition. As always, we'll respond to questions that we did not have time to answer during the event here on our… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Agile or Adaptive PM, Project & Program Management, Project Management Maturity | 0 Comments

Almost a year in the making, the newest edition of this book, based on PM Solutions’ time- and field-tested maturity model, includes assessment tools for organizations undergoing a transformation to Agile or adaptive project management approaches. These “Adaptive/Agile Environment” components and practice statements for each of the five maturity levels are… Read More »

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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 »

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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 »

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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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Each time we do a webinar, it is always frustrating to run out of time (and sometimes, out of answers!) before all the attendee questions can be responded to. Our July webinar covering the finding from The State of Project Management 2020 was no exception. I’ve sifted through the questions that went unanswered and… Read More »

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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 »

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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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The Who and Where of PMOs A few weeks ago, one of the members of our PMO of the Year Group on LinkedIn asked a question that sparked a lively discussion with numerous group members chiming in. I thought I’d recap the back-and-forth and add some of my own thoughts. It all started… Read More »

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Since PM Solutions was first established over a quarter-century ago, we have operated as a primarily virtual organization, using small administrative centers to support a large number of consultants, trainers and specialists in the field. This strategy was designed by our founders to help a small start-up access the best talent, wherever they might live.… Read More »

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Our newest research survey, The State of Project Management 2020, closed on January 31 ... but if you were procrastinating, you are in luck. We've reopened the survey for just one week to allow those who missed the deadline to be part of this study, which seeks to develop a picture of the current state as well… Read More »

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Bloomberg.com kicked off 2020 by releasing a challenging list of the things business should be preparing for: A shift in political and economic power from West to East A sea-change in consumer habits, toward sustainability Humans outnumbered by connected devices It's mind-boggling to consider the role that project management will have to play in… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Project Management Training | 2 Comments

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest white paper Organizational Change Management Adds Agility to Strategy. The paper combines insights from organizational change management (OCM) and project / program management to give organizations in edge in effectively executing organizational strategies. With guidance from out papers, you'll be able to: Execute projects… Read More »

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To respond to some of the questions asked by attendees during our Adaptive Orgainization webinar in February (view the recording here if you missed it), I had to tap into the expertise of one of the SMEs who served on our panel of experts in formulating the survey questions. Brad Clark is  a Managing… Read More »

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I recently ran across a compendium of research statistics about project management (including some from PM Solutions Research studies -- Thanks, Business2Community.com!) It's a useful and thought-provoking list, covering project management research on all levels, from the intraproject to the strategic. But there was one area I was looking for that I… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Agile or Adaptive PM, Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Human Capital, Project Management Research, Site News | 0 Comments

Project management practice is in the midst of a sea-change. Adaptive methods that once occupied a specialist niche are being mainstreamed in response to a competitive climate that demands greater flexibility, more transparency, and faster results. As organizations continue to experiment with, and expand application of, hybrid/adaptive approaches, it’s important to pay… Read More »

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 1 Comment

Yesterday was a mix of validating old ideas and being surprised by new insights. Conference breaks always afford the opportunity for some wonderful conversations, hearing what is going on in other organizations, and sometimes having my own experience or ideas validated. Case in point: I had to smile when one topic that surfaced was the… Read More »

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Panel discussions at the PMO Symposium give me writer's cramp! It's hard to take notes fast enough, especially when confronted with an array of highly knowledgeable practitioners. The panelists were: Melissa Eckers, Accenture Brian Murphy, CapGemini Jan Musil, SAP Noel Smyth, JP Morgan The upshot? The PMO is evolving and changing; no longer… Read More »

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Hello from the PMO Symposium, where the theme, “Mastering Value Delivery,” feels so congruent with what we’ve been working on with clients recently. I loved the “beauty pageant” kickoff where the Session Preview gave multiple speakers a chance to pitch their sessions. The only problem: I can’t… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili | 1 Comment

Recently, the PM Solutions Research Team conducted its latest research initiative: The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management. The study was designed to discover to what degree organizations employ adaptive approaches in their project management practice and their impact on project and organizational outcomes. In total, 191 respondents participated in The Adaptive… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Culture & Change Management, Human Capital, Portfolio Management | 4 Comments

Sometimes you have to get a little distance from familiar things to see them in perspective. I experienced this in September during a three-week break, out of the country, away from it all, and on a bit of an enforced “device fast” with no wifi or mobile data. In a brief airport interlude, 10… Read More »