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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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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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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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Whether you and your team are tasked with implementing a new IT system, launching a product, or implementing a strategic initiative, the pressure to deliver on time and within budget is always immense. It’s not just about having the right tools or the best processes in these high-stakes situations.  The true key… 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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Lacking flexibility and adaptability in project management is a major cause of unsuccessful projects, long timelines, and budget overruns, especially in times of change and major business shifts. A new, scalable solution is Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). PMaaS manages all of the challenges of staffing, resource allocation, and remote work communication.  … Read More »

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The deadline for a critical project, one that could make or break your company's future, is on the horizon. Facing the dual challenges of urgency and complexity, project management leadership makes a game-changing decision: to embrace Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Why PMaaS? For project managers and PMOs, the task of navigating through… 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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As 2023 comes to a close, my first thought is I’m glad PMI added “Uncertainty” to the PMBOK Guide. The stock market, inexplicably soaring in the face of gloom from economists and pundits; a globe beset by seemingly unresolvable conflicts; a new technology that even its inventors express concern about, and which… 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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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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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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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 »

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Post-PMI Summit, I found myself re-doing a number of the slides for my upcoming Great IT Pro webinar on PMO Governance (join us Dec. 22). The chance to hear the thoughts of other project management experts and professionals in sessions that covered topics from Artificial Intelligence to futurism to resource management ... and the chance to… Read More »

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Thrill of the day here at the PMI Global Summit: seeing our former client Ontario Power Generation score in the Top Three in the PMI PMO of the Year Award. OPG's Director of Project Services, Tracy Leung, and her colleague Rania McLarty, Manager, Project Controls, shared their pride and enthusiasm about their PMO's… Read More »

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Yesterday during the opening keynote of the PMI Global Summit here in Las Vegas, the speaker, Amy Webb, a futurist and best-selling author, urged project managers to "move up the value chain." She's correct, of course, in thinking that project management experts deserve a seat at the strategic level of organizations. The signature capabilities… Read More »

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An eon ago -- in October just before everyone in my family came down with Covid--I promised two more installments of blogs covering the lingering questions from our research webinar, Q: I represent IT sector and I provide and implement Agile processes. Where is a border line between managerial processes and development processes in your… 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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[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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We’ve got more webinar attendee questions today. Also stay tuned for a blog from our Agile SME Sydni Neptune, answering additional webinar attendee questions specific to Agile. I’m also going to circle back to some questions I answered during the live event on October 21—questions about agile environments which, had… 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 »

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The attendees in my virtual presentation at the PMI Virtual Experience event asked such great questions! But there were a few left in the queue when we ran out of time. Today, and in two more blogs after the holidays, I'll be answering these remaining questions, as well as encouraging readers to get in… Read More »