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PM Solutions provides project management consulting, training, and resources to help organizations improve performance and deliver critical projects successfully.

Articles

We invite you to view our collection of articles and writings below that provide insight into the practice and value of project management.

IT Project Management

8 Ways to Save Your Next Project
(Baseline Magazine, December 17, 2007)


Competencies of IT Project Managers
(2 pgs./82KB)


If IT Projects Fail, What's to Blame?
(Optimize, March 2005)


What Makes a Good IT Project Manager: Five Keys for Success
(2 pgs./88KB)


Outsourcing Project Management

Outside In: Outsourcing of Project Management Services
(PM Network, 4 pgs./256KB)


Pharmaceutical Organizations Discover PM Outsourcing
(Pharmaceutical Processing Magazine, 2 pgs./368KB)


Will Outsourcing Relationships Rule in the New Millenium
(2 pgs./64KB)


Performance & Value Measurement

Play the Numbers Game...Create a Project Management Scorecard
(6pgs./65KB)


Can You Quantify the Value of Project Management in Your Organization?
(2 pgs./72KB)


The Value of Project Management Training: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(5 pgs./60KB)


Value of Project Management in IT Organizations
(4 pgs./36KB)


Value of Project Management: Getting Executive Buy-In
(5 pgs./40KB)


Value of Project Management
(5 pgs./40KB)


Project Controls

Project Control Functions: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(3 pgs./48KB)


Project Portfolio Management

Project Portfolio Management Maturity
(6 pgs./160KB)


Project Portfolio Management is Your Friend
(Developer.com, February 2005)


Project Portfolio Management Benchmark Study
(5 pgs./64KB)


Project Portfolio Management and the Strategic Project Office
(2 pgs./64KB)


Portfolio Management: Linking Corporate Strategy to Project Priority and Selection
(6 pgs./92KB)


Want to Ensure Quality? Think Portfolio Management
(2 pgs./80KB)


Project Management – General

Challenges to the Virtual Organization
(2 pgs./56KB)


Change Management: A Team Effort
(2 pgs./64KB)


Creating & Sustaining a Project Management Culture
(2 pgs./72KB)


Crisis Management: Project Management's Role
(3 pgs./80KB)


Does Your Organization Have a Chief Project Officer?
(2 pgs./64KB)


The Functional to Matrix Transition
(4 pgs./88KB)


High-Performance Project Teams: A Benchmark of Current Best Practices
(3 pgs./56KB)


Inside the Sarbox: The Future of Project Management
(Developer.com, Fall 2003)


Preparing for Change: Tips from the Front Lines
(Best Practices e-Advisor, Issue #100)


"Project Management: The State of the Industry" Research Findings
(5 pgs./48KB)


Project Team Performance Linked to Oragnizational Success, Study Finds
(Workforce Performance Solutions, Feb. 2006)


Sweet Success: Combining Project Management and Business Development
(Project Manager Planet, September 2007) 


The Soft Side of Risk
(3 pgs./76KB)


Top Project Management Priorities of Fortune 500 Companies
(2 pgs./84KB) 


Project Management Maturity

A Practical Guide to Improving Project Management Maturity
(Projects@Work, December 2007)


Growing Up: Organizational Maturity Assessments Light the way to Optimized PM
(PM Network, 4 pgs./443KB)


Project Management Maturity
(3 pgs./160KB)


Project Management Methodology

Communities of Practice in the Projectized Organization
(5 pgs./80KB)


Insurers Put New Products to the Test: PM Solutions' Project Management Community of Practice Methodology Solution
(Tech Decisions, April 2005; 1 pg./416KB)


Project Community of Practice
(3 pgs./80KB)


Technology and the Community of Practice
(4 pgs./88KB)


Project Manager Competency

A Professional Development Worksheet
(1 pg./160KB)


Bridging Your Competency Gap: Take ownership of your professional development
(4 pgs./192KB)


Competency Assessment Programs for Project Managers
(May 2003/Chief Learning Officer)


Power to the People: Creating an environment where project personnel can thrive
(October 2005/Chief Project Officer)


The Value of Project Management Training: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices
(5 pgs./60KB)


What Makes a Good Project Manager?
(2 pgs./68KB)


What is Competence?
(3 pgs./152KB)


What Makes a Good IT Project Manager: Five Keys for Success
(2 pgs./88KB)


Project Office

Evaluate Your Project Management Office
(Computerworld, February 16, 2004)


How a Strategic Project Office Solves Business Problems
(4 pgs./96KB) 


How to Start up and Roll out a Project Office
(8 pgs./112KB)


Improving Organizational Productivity with a Project Office
(7 pgs./108KB)


Keys to Success: Staffing an Enterprise-level Project Office
(3 pgs./92KB)


The Project Office Staff: Focus on Talent, First
(2 pgs./76KB)


Project Recovery

8 Ways to Save Your Next Project
(Baseline Magazine, December 17, 2007)


Recover Projects from Failure... Before They Begin
(2 pgs./56KB)


Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery
(3 pgs./44KB)


Strategy & Governance

Beating the Odds: Lack of Clear Project Strategy is an Easy Trap for Insurance Carriers
(Tech Decisions, July 2007)


CPO's and the Bottom Line
(Chief Project Officer, August 2005)


Governance and the Chief Project Officer
(Chief Project Officer, March 2005)


Making Strategy Work
(Chief Project Officer, April 2005)


Strategy & Projects: A Benchmark of Current Best Practices
(3 pgs./48K)