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 »

Posted by Carrie Capili | 0 Comments

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Matt Crawford | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Webinars can be deadly dull at times, even if you’re interested in the subject. We try to avoid putting the audience to sleep by incorporating live polls in our presentation. In October, during the How We Thrived webinar (view the recording here if you missed it!), I was particularly interested in knowing how… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

On July 27, we aired our most recent webinar, Project Management Maturity Meets the Agile Environment (click to view the recording), which was based on our recently-released book, The Project Management Maturity Model, Fourth Edition. As always, we'll respond to questions that we did not have time to answer during the event here on our… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Agile or Adaptive PM, Project & Program Management, Project Management Maturity | 0 Comments

Almost a year in the making, the newest edition of this book, based on PM Solutions’ time- and field-tested maturity model, includes assessment tools for organizations undergoing a transformation to Agile or adaptive project management approaches. These “Adaptive/Agile Environment” components and practice statements for each of the five maturity levels are… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Project & Program Management, Project Management Research | 0 Comments

PM Solutions, a project management consulting and training firm dedicated to helping organizations drive performance and operational efficiency, is pleased to announce our newest research initiative: Virtual Success: A Benchmark of Practices for Virtual Project and Program Management. By doing research on the various strategies, methods, and tools that organizations have used prior to the… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Welcome back to our series where we respond to those questions asked by attendees at our webinar, which we did not have time to respond to during the event. (You can access the recording of the webinar here.) This week, I've grouped three questions that circle around the future state of project management: As… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

Each time we do a webinar, it is always frustrating to run out of time (and sometimes, out of answers!) before all the attendee questions can be responded to. Our July webinar covering the finding from The State of Project Management 2020 was no exception. I’ve sifted through the questions that went unanswered and… Read More »

Posted by Bruce Miller | 0 Comments

One of the questions that often comes up in RFPs is whether PM Solutions’ PMaaS service offering includes an offshore component.  Although we have served clients around the globe with consulting and training solutions, we prefer to deploy our own home-grown project management resources. Not only does this sidestep a variety of security… Read More »

Posted by Bruce Miller | 0 Comments

It seems uncanny now that I wrote this series on project management as a service (PMaaS) back in December 2019, before the present health crisis made working together virtually a necessity in many industries.  My first blog in the series explained how PM Solutions has long worked to perfect virtual project services and team… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Our newest research survey, The State of Project Management 2020, closed on January 31 ... but if you were procrastinating, you are in luck. We've reopened the survey for just one week to allow those who missed the deadline to be part of this study, which seeks to develop a picture of the current state as well… Read More »

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 0 Comments

Going from session to session at ATD (see more conference posts on the PM College blog) I had an object lesson in the dynamic my editor, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, wrote about on this blog just a couple weeks ago in "Tra-La, It's May; Stay Positive, People!" She wrote about using the technique of Appreciative Inquiry… Read More »

Posted by Johanna Mickel | 0 Comments

We are about to unleash a week's worth of reading on our PM College blog readers, covering all the amazing sessions that Crystal Busch and I are attending here at ATD 2019 in Washington, DC. But first ... that fantastic Monday morning keynote. If ATD was trying to get our attention, it worked. Oprah Winfrey started… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 2 Comments

Earth Day is almost here, but that was not the inspiration for this column. In fact, the topic of sustainability was far from my mind when I went looking through recent articles in my favorite business publications, seeking an Aha! to kick off this week's blog. I followed a link to the MIT Sloan… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin in Agile or Adaptive PM, Culture & Change Management, Project & Program Management, Human Capital, Project Management Research, Site News | 0 Comments

Project management practice is in the midst of a sea-change. Adaptive methods that once occupied a specialist niche are being mainstreamed in response to a competitive climate that demands greater flexibility, more transparency, and faster results. As organizations continue to experiment with, and expand application of, hybrid/adaptive approaches, it’s important to pay… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili | 1 Comment

We’re excited to announce the publication of the Fifth Edition of the American Management Association Handbook of Project Management! Our own editor-in-chief, Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, serves as co-editor, with PMI Fellow Paul C. Dinsmore, PMP, of this classic text. The AMA Handbook, now published by HarperCollins Leadership, provides a comprehensive view of the project… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

We've just finish crunching the numbers from our newest research study, The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of the Changing Approaches to Project Management and while it will be a few more weeks before the final report is released, I thought I'd share a few statistics that I find particularly compelling. First, a caveat:… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili | 0 Comments

PM College, the training division of PM Solutions, today announced the publication of its latest book – Project Management Essentials 4th Edition. For those new to project management, unofficial project managers, or project team members, Project Management Essentials is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to manage projects successfully. It is well-known as… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Hey, I know you are at the beach, but you should still take 15 minutes to add your voice to our current survey research. As organizations begin to grapple with bringing methodologies and practices, templates and tools, in line with the recent new edition of the PMBOK® Guide, wouldn't you like to know to… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 1 Comment

This blog was updated in May 2025. Although we have not released the formal research report yet, and the numbers are still being crunched, there are a couple things I found in reading through the raw data collected by our Strategy Execution Process Benchmark that I couldn't wait to share. Like the majority of companies… Read More »

Posted by Victor L. Allen | 1 Comment

Editor’s Note: This week we welcome back Vic Allen, director of project management,  DTE Energy, and co-author of Project Management for Experienced Project Managers, with the fifth in our “Expert Series” of blogs. You can read the whole series if you start here. A few years ago, one of my… Read More »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

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 »

Posted by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin | 0 Comments

Last week we launched our newest research initiative The Strategic Execution Process Benchmark: Integrating Projects, Programs, and Portfolios for Strategic Success, and we are very excited about it. Over the 20 years that PM Solutions Research has been collecting data about project management processes, we have seen an increasing confluence of strategic planning and management with… Read More »