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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 »

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The first quarter of 2026 is well underway, and your organization needs to see measurable improvements that align with your strategy. The good news is there’s still time to make sure the support is in place early on for those improvements to progress. It’s kind of like making a list of your… Read More »

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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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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 »

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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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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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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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Implementing a Project Management Office (PMO) can be a game-changer for organizations looking to streamline project management and improve delivery.  However, the journey to a successful PMO is often fraught with challenges.  Whether starting from scratch or enhancing an existing PMO, understanding the key steps and best practices is crucial to ensuring its… Read More »

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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 »

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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 »

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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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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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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 »

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[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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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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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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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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We enjoyed a series of thoughtful blogs about the PMO Symposium this year, thanks to my colleague Johanna Mickel, both here and on the PM College blog. To wrap up, I asked our CEO J. Kent Crawford to share his impressions of the PMO of the Year Award finalists. Kent has a long history with… Read More »