Posted by Matt Crawford in Project Management Office (PMO) | 0 Comments

QUESTION: This is my first time participating with your organization. The research was helpful and I was looking for info maybe one layer deeper - Not just what is important or what makes a PMO successful but details more on best practices that got them there. First, thank you for joining the State of the… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Resource Optimization | 0 Comments

As 2025 comes to a close and the strategic endeavors of 2026 become everyday realities, many organizations are facing a paradox when it comes to resource allocation. We have more tools, more data, and more automation than ever before, which should make things easier, right? So why does resource management continue to be one of the most… Read More »

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The C-Suite Playbook: Leveraging High-Performing PMOs to Accelerate Success PM Solutions Research just released our flagship State of the PMO 2025 Research Report last week and it’s time to talk about how the data can really help the C-suite and organizations progress in the next 24 months. We’ve been tracking the development of… Read More »

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PMOaaS. You’ve probably seen or heard this term but may not be familiar with the ins and outs of what it actually covers. Project Management Office as a Service, or PMOaaS, refers to a partnership where an organization works with a third party operating and functioning as the organization’s PMO. The… Read More »

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In the State of the PMO 2025 research survey, we introduced two new topics: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Project Management Office as a Service (PMOaaS). We’ve been talking about AI and project management for quite some time. In fact, we have a three-part blog series you can check out here. But it’s… Read More »

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

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 »

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

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Lots of good news about Agile, Adaptive and Hybrid project management in our 2024 study on "The Adaptive Orgnization!" Sign up to hear about all the ways that these approaches -- plus Project Management as a Service and Artificial Intelligence--are changing the outlook in the profession. It's free, and PMPs can receive 1 PDU for attending.… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

In our most recent research study, The Adaptive Organization 2024: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management, we looked at how the increasing adoption of hybrid methods is affecting projects and project managers from multiple angles. One such angle involves the role of the PMO in promoting agility and managing strategic projects using adaptive and… 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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

So, you missed the deadline to contribute your views to our 2023 Project Management Skills for Value Delivery? Never mind, missed deadlines are a part of life, right? (Though maybe a little embarrassing for project management pros and journalists!) Some of your fellow procrastinators reached out to us over the weekend, and we've reopened the… Read More »

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Coming up on the end of 2022, I'm at last going to answer the remaining question asked by one of our webinar attendees (view the full recorded webinar here) after participating in our online presentation about The State of the PMO 2022. I've saved the best for last because it spurs some thoughts on the… Read More »

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If you asked a question after our recent webinar examining the qualities of high-performing PMOs, the answer may be here!  We had four questions that we did not have time to answer during the event: I’ll be responding to one about governmental agencies in the study today, and then one each week… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

If you’ve followed this series so far (See Part 1 and Part 2 on the PM College blog), you’ll know that we’re looking at both sides of the Artificial Intelligence in project management debate. I’m not ready to sign on as an enthusiast, but there are some powerful arguments… 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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 May 23, 2025 One thing that makes a smaller organization more nimble, usually, is its size: there aren’t a lot of layers between decision makers and the boots on the ground. So, it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that smaller organizations can derive value from adding more managerial infrastructure, but that… Read More »

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Our newest research study, The State of the PMO 2022, compares and contrasts PMOs in participating organizations in a number of ways. One standout finding has been that PMOs that operate on the enterprise level outperform all others -- those established at the departmental level or business unit level-- on a majority of the key performance… 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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

For ten years, through 2016, PM Solutions Research conducted a study on the roles, functions, and maturity of PMOs. Over the course of that decade, we saw the PMO grow from a rare departmental unit with limited powers, to a widespread organizational feature that gave project management--and project managers--visibility and clout. As the average age of… Read More »

Posted by Sydni Neptune, PMP, CSM | 0 Comments

[Editor's Note: Continuing our series of responses to questions asked by our webinar attendees, please welcome our Agile SME Sydni Neptune to the fray! The recorded webinar can be viewed here.] Q: What are the areas of work that can have the greatest impact to moving forward with agile transformation and improving maturity? Of… Read More »

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In Jan. 2021, PM Solutions Research conducted a survey to determine what project management strategies companies had used during the pandemic to continue meeting goals, and how well those had worked, both within projects and for the organization as a whole. The most compelling finding was that organizations achieved better performance in 2020 than in previous years! … Read More »

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This blog was updated in May 2025. Two attendees to our Dec. 9, 2020 PMI Virtual Event that focused on the Agile PMO had specific questions about the use of the Scaled Agile Framework environment (SAFe®), so I pulled in two of our Agile SMEs for interviews. Here at last is an edited transcript of our conversation,… 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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Here's my entire pitch for why your organization needs to build in agility: 2020. Need I say more? One of the chief ways that organizational agility can be improved is by putting an agile, enterprise-level PMO in charge of developing that agility. PMOs lead the way in introducing agile methods and mindset, providing training and… 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 »