Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 resource management ... and the chance to… Read More »

Posted by J. Kent Crawford in Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research | 0 Comments

Wow! Thanks to all those who participated in my session Sunday at the PMI Global Congress in Vancouver, BC. We held an informal focus group on the topic of measuring PMO capability (or maturity), where I debuted a model our research division has been working on this year. The model, which we are calling a… Read More »

Posted by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Project & Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO) | 2 Comments

PMI's annual conference was different this year.  As a long time member … my 21st consecutive symposium … there was an energy missing.  That energy was Eric Jennet, one of PMI’s original founders.  Eric died on Friday at the age of 86.  He was a character … he called… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Human Capital, Project Management Office (PMO), Strategy Execution | 1 Comment

The PMI Global Congress is better this year than ever: venue, food, and ease-of-use have all been upgraded. But it's in the selection of speakers and array of presentations that it really shows a marked upturn. First of all: Bill Clinton was awesome as the kickoff keynote speaker. In challenging the project management profession… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Project & Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO), Site News | 2 Comments

The biggest annual event in project management opens today in National Harbor, MD (just outside Washington DC) and PM Solutions/PM College will be there. The tradeshow kicks off this afternoon; we will be exhibiting at booth #1201 so if you are at the show, please stop by and meet our staff. We’ll be… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Project Management Office (PMO), Site News | 0 Comments

... which makes sense, since our third runner-up in the PMO of the Year competition is Seattle-area--based telecomm company T-Mobile USA. An offshoot of the international firm Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA established an enterprise PMO that sits at the highest organizational level: its director reports to the COO. In the dynamic market of wireless devices and… Read More »

Posted by J. Kent Crawford in Portfolio Management, Strategy Execution | 8 Comments

This blog was updated August 2025. Every organization wants to effectively execute strategies, but many struggle to implement a process for doing so. This struggle is one reason that the Balanced Scorecard has had such a wide following and impact on business. Simply put, the BSC emphasizes the linkage of measurement to strategy. For the first… Read More »