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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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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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We’ve been discussing the results of The State of the PMO 2025 Research Report with our PM Solutions team throughout the past few weeks. We’re pulling apart the data and discussing what it really means to our clients and how it can influence what’s to come as PMOs drive toward… 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 »

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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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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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It’s 2025 and what challenge is on your plate yet again? If you said resource management, you’re in good company even though it’s not where you want to be. For the past 25 years, PM Solutions has been conducting research on various aspects of project management, and every year without fail,… Read More »

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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 »

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Day 2 was another exciting day of learning and networking.  I attended Joe Campa’s session, Mastering the PMO Landscape, discussing the journey that Ontario Power Generation has taken to improve PMO capabilities.  OPG focused on Elevating their PMO through a value-focused and customer-centric mindset. 50% of PMOs shut down within the first 4 years… Read More »

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Hello from Los Angeles! Day 1 at PMI Global Summit 2024 was quite interesting, especially for PMI members. During the opening keynote, Pierre Le Manh, PMI's President & CEO, announced PMI Infinity 2.0, the updated PMI AI tool that will launch later this year. The tool will be built on ChatGPT 4.0 and include an AI-powered risk analysis… Read More »

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A research program, especially one that spans multiple years or even decades, builds a library of knowledge. It's not just a set of data points, but a constantly elaborated structure with a solid foundation. This is how we view the 25+ years of research studies we've engaged in here at PM Solutions. The topics… 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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In our study The Adaptive Organization 2024, one finding stood out: organizations have gone all in on hybrid project management, and they are achieving more success because of that adoption. Because we asked a similar set of questions about the adoption of agile, hybrid, and predictive methods back in 2018, we can see the clear trends emerging: 37%… 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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Today’s publication release from PM Solutions gives you a deep dive into the way we practice Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Describing a timeline of the process and giving some background on the personnel we deploy, this paper above all focuses on the important concept of partnership as central to a PMaaS… Read More »

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During the first few days of last week's PMI Global Congress, I was inspired to jot down a few thoughts about my conference experience. Atlanta was definitely the largest number of attendees for a PMI event that I’ve attended.  AI, as expected, is a big theme of the conference and lots… Read More »

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I missed posting yesterday but it was the day of my presentation which--whew!--is over and went off without a hitch, apart from a bit of mic feedback. All these presentations from PMI are recorded and available to view online, starting next Monday thru some time in January. I am planning to "attend" all the… Read More »

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I'm blogging from the #PMIGlobalSummit in Atlanta for the next few days and so far, although I have about 24 years of PMI conferences under my belt, I have to say this is the best one ever. Last night, roving around the exhibit hall, just feeling the vibe I was struck by the reality that,… Read More »

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We had a terrific group of attendees for our live webinar that aired Thursday October 5, when PM Solutions’ VP Client Success Eric Foss and I covered the top findings from our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. (If you missed it, you can find the recording here.) As always during these events,… Read More »

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Join me and PM Solutions VP, Client Success, Eric Foss--one of the key subject matter experts who contributed to our 2023 research study--to learn more about the value delivery skills that will make or break project management careers in the future. For Project Management Skills for Value Delivery we asked project management leaders and staff members… Read More »

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In 2021, I looked at all the available research on how companies were thriving in spite of the pandemic--including our own, How We Thrived: Virtual Project Management Practices During the Pandemic and Beyond. The resulting white paper, Establishing the Adaptive Organization offered seven ways that organizations could use the learnings from a time of crisis to… 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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Last week, I presented a sneak preview of the results from our newest research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery, on the Great IT Pro platform. This report is still being finalized, and will be released to the public in a few weeks. Here’s a recap of what I shared with them. … Read More »

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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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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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Next week, we’ll be launching our 2023 research study, Project Management Skills for Value Delivery. This study set out to renew the data we collected in our 2015 study, Project Manager Skills Benchmark. But as we looked at the questions and skills we previously asked about, we realized how much project management practice has changed. … 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 »