2022: What Is the State of Your PMO?

January 19, 2022 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

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 the PMO increased, so did its capability and reach.

For the past five years, we have continued to delve into the ways that PMOs and project management serve the strategic goals of organizations, focusing on the capabilities of the PMO instead of the PMO itself. You can get a pretty good picture of the ways that PMOs have changed by looking at those studies:

The State of Strategy Execution 2017: The Impact of Project Management Processes on Executing Strategies

The Adaptive Organization 2018: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management

The State of Project Management 2020: Trends and Practices for a New Decade

However, in discussing the new shape of the PMO with many subject matter experts, from our own Agile SMEs to the many attendees at our PMI, Great IT, and in-house webinars, we realized the time had come to frame a new picture of the new PMO: an organization with strategic clout, deep knowledge of business and projects, a wide ambit over the hiring, training and rewarding of project personnel, and a home to agile transformation.

So ... the new State of the PMO 2022 is open for your participation through February 4. Click here to start the survey. We can't wait to see the landscape this data will describe!

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Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin is editor-in-chief for PM Solutions Research, and the author, co-author and editor of over twenty books on project management, including the 2007 PMI Literature Award winner, The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Second Edition.

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