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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 »

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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 »

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 »

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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, held via Microsoft Teams in January 2021.… 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 »

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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 »

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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 »

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Last week, I shared the story of a new training program developed by PM College with the help of PPP (Payroll Protection Program) funding. I think the example of a business using these disaster relief funds to create new services for customers—services tailor-made for our present circumstances—while keeping employees on the… Read More »

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We've just published a new research brief that gathers onto one page some insights for organization leaders who want to get back to business, but do so wisely. Recognizing that every organization is facing an unprecedented need for agility in kicking off and delivering an array of new programs associated with how their employees… Read More »

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We live in interesting times. Although the new research study officially released today, The State of Project Management 2020, was conceived of and designed last fall--a seeming lifetime ago!--the issues it frames, and the solutions offered, could not be more timely.If your organization has struggled to realize the full benefits of a maturing project… Read More »

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Risk management is a cornerstone of our discipline. Today, as companies carefully re-open for business, even while the risk posed by Covid-19 is still present to at least some degree in all our communities, the systematic identification of, and planning for, risks must be a part of that move.That's why we've collected… Read More »

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When we created the survey questionnaire for The State of Project Management 2020, little did we realize what state we'd be in! Nevertheless, because project management is the thing that helps organizations rise to the occasion ... no matter how unprecedented that occasion may be ... we found helpful insights in the survey results. The full report… Read More »

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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 »

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As someone who has worked primarily from a home office for approximately 30 years, I confess to being somewhat amazed at the number of headlines about whether or not companies can move to remote work to protect employees and the public during the pandemic that is now upon us. I suppose I have been taking for… 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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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 »

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The State of Project Management 2020: Trends and Practices for a New Decade. is designed to help us understand the issues surrounding various aspects of project management. The questions will provide updated data points for comparison to our previous studies on the PMO, PPM, strategy execution and agile/adaptive practice adoption. This will allow us to… Read More »

Posted by Carrie Capili in Benefits Realization, Culture & Change Management, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Project Management Training | 2 Comments

We’re pleased to announce the publication of our latest white paper Organizational Change Management Adds Agility to Strategy.The paper combines insights from organizational change management (OCM) and project / program management to give organizations in edge in effectively executing organizational strategies. With guidance from out papers, you'll be able to:Execute projects… 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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PMO Symposium 2019 is off and running. I attended the session entitled “Leading the Agile Evolution: Let’s Play Ball,” led by Alison Bakken from Thomson Reuters.  Her thoughts on the key reason for implementing Agile was to help teams deliver more effectively and efficiently for customers.  She shared several… Read More »