Posted by Carrie Capili in Project Management Office (PMO) | 0 Comments

There’s a reason PMOs are no longer just a “nice to have” in enterprises. PMOs have become mission-critical pillars of organizational success. What really began as a discipline rooted in construction and government contracting has now evolved into a business imperative across industries, from high tech and healthcare to financial services… Read More »

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The State of the PMO 2025 research report will be published in the coming weeks with much gratitude to those participants who continue to help us bring this research to the industry! In advance of the full report, here is a quick preview of what we’re seeing behind the scenes as we analyze the… Read More »

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PMOs are in the limelight now more than ever with quite a few newsworthy items at the forefront, including the rise (and rise and rise) of AI in project management and PMI’s recent launch of the Project Management Offices: A Practice Guide. While we could write a new piece every day on the… Read More »

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The State of the PMO 2025 is open for your participation through February 14 Throughout the last 15 years, PM Solutions Research has conducted a study on the roles, functions, and maturity of PMOs. That’s a lot of valuable data over a pretty significant period of time! And we’re quite happy to say that… Read More »

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An interesting divide showed up between PMO leaders and PMO staff members in our most recent research, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. Across the board, whether they are rating their organization's level of skills, scoring its project success, or ranking skills by importance, PMO staff members are less cheerful about the state of… Read More »

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There are 100 pages of data in The State of the PMO 2022, so I could present about it every week for months without repeating myself. In this week's webinar (sign up here, this Thursday, Sept. 15 at 2 pm ET) PM Solutions' VP, Client Success Eric Foss and I will be hitting the high points. A sampler: … Read More »

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If you're like me, when you get an invitation to fill out a survey, your first thought is: why should I bother with this? What will I get out of it? In the case of The State of the PMO 2022, the answer is pretty clear. This study, performed every other year through 2016, has provided… 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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Our co-presentation with Preferred Mutual at last November's PMO Symposium was so well-recieved that we decided to reprise it as a webinar. Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 2 pm for a free (PDU available!) event as PM Solutions President Bruce Miller and Preferred Mutual's senior VP of Strategic Services, Michele Graham, discuss the 1… Read More »

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I had the opportunity yesterday to chat with those of our executive team who attended the 2019 PMO Symposium. Here's a recap of their top insights and takeaways from what they all agreed was "a very impressive conference," "the best I've ever attended," and "much more engaging" than previous years. CEO J. Kent Crawford… Read More »

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Speaking of asking the right questions, in the session entitled “How PMOs can enable business & organizational agility," Joanna Vahlsing from Centro, began by posing the question of what fears we have about moving to a more agile organization.  Some of the audience responses were: Lack of timeliness Lack of trust Lack of… Read More »

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At the opening general session, The Project Economy – The Future of Work,  Bob Safian, Founder of The Flux Group and Former Editor of Fast Company, delievered a whirlwind look at the lessons of innovation, pros and cons of "The Project Economy" and a recap of PMI's 50 most influential projects of the last 50… Read More »

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(If you are wondering what happened to Part 2 of this series, check out Deborah Bigelow Crawford's responses to questions about training and coaching on the PM College blog here.) I've saved the best for last. One of our webinar attendees asked: Question: Please review more of the roles and responsibilities of the Agile… Read More »

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In honor of International Women's Day, I decided to look into something that's usually outside the scope of PM Solutions' research. One of the questions we never ask in our research studies is gender. After all, we are studying the effectiveness of practices, not the people who perform them. Even when we surveyed… Read More »

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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 »

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This blog was updated July 2025. My top feel-good session at this year’s PMI Global Conference was a case study of the Mayo Clinic’s PMO at their Center for Regenerative Medicine. Not only is the visionary work of the CRM inspiring, but I was impressed by the PMO leader, Wale Elegbede, PMP.… Read More »

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Now that I have time to catch my breath after the whirlwind of information that is the PMO Symposium, I wanted to skip back to Monday and share a few insights from a panel of C-Suite luminaries convened by PMI for the occasion: Bruce Rogers, Forbes Chief Insights Officer, noted that we are in an… Read More »

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In our May webinar/panel discussion of The State of the PMO 2016, we had a number of questions submitted by participants that there was not enough time to answer. I caught up with Kent Crawford by phone to get his responses to some of the questions that centered around PMO implementation and processes. Q: The… Read More »

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Editor's Note: We welcome back guest blogger Victor Allen with some words of wisdom, gained though experience, on the challenges faced by PMOs. This is the third in our "Expert Series": You can read previous posts in the series here and here. For more on PMO challenges and trends, please download our latest research… Read More »

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The State of the PMO 2016 research report, released last November, shows that the majority of organizations now either have PMOs or are planning to implement one in the coming year, the common functions and practices of PMOs are becoming a standard feature of organizations. But for those PMOs that have been in place for over… Read More »

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Editor’s introduction: This week we inaugurate the first in our Expert Series, blogs by writers who have won our respect for their work “in the trenches” of project, program and organizational improvement. Today’s author, Victor Allen, is director of project management for Major Enterprise Projects at DTE Energy, the… Read More »

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We are delighted to announce that our president and founder, J. Kent Crawford, is the recipient of the 2017 PMI Southwest Ohio Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors those who have made significant and continuous contributions over the entirety of their career to the field of project management. That is certainly true of Kent! With… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research | 1 Comment

Although is is not a major theme in our biennial research study, The State of the PMO, there's one data point that I always keep a close eye on, and that is the use of outside contractors to manage the PMO or to manage specific projects and programs for the PMO. Over the years… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Project & Program Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management Maturity, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research | 0 Comments

This week saw the release of the latest iteration of our biennial research study, The State of the PMO 2016. After nearly a decade of collecting information on PMO trends and functions, PM Solutions Research had a clear view of how the PMO is developing as an organizational entity. Not only that, but our unique formula… Read More »

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This week I attended the PMO Symposium for the first time and it was one of those events where you experience so many new ideas that you can’t keep them to yourself. I’m relatively new to Twitter, but I found it to be the perfect tool to record “Aha!”… Read More »

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

Calling all PMO leaders, executives with responsibility for PMOs, and PMO contributors: now is your chance to participate in our signature biennial research study, The State of the PMO. Conducted every two years since 2008, this study has helped thousands of companies gauge and improve thier PMO processes and functions. This year's study, subtitled "Enabling… Read More »

Posted by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Governance, Performance Measurement, Project Management Research, Strategy Execution | 0 Comments

Companies are demanding to know the long-range benefits of building and implementing a project management culture. Simple financial measurements are not enough; a balanced family of measures is needed to get an overall picture of the health of your organization and its project management practices. A balanced family of measures can evolve into a powerful… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Human Capital, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Training | 0 Comments

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… Read More »