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Center for Business Practices

Stay on the cutting-edge of critical management trends, organizational priorities, and business practice innovations. PM Solutions’ Center for Business Practices (CBP) publishes original research and is the premier source for project management-specific research. View the latest collection of research below and check back regularly for new reports.

Project Control Functions The State of the Project Management Office (PMO)

PMOs are becoming standard practice in most project-based organizations. This research uncovers a fascinating array of key findings on: PMO maturity; high-performing organizations vs. low-performing organizations; PMO size, scope, and complexity; PMO functions and services; PMO staffing and project managers; and PMO challenges and critical success factors.
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Project Control Functions Project Control Functions

Organizations do not perform project control functions well. Managing issue, risk and change control processes are particularly troublesome. These conclusions are among the results of a survey designed to investigate best practices in the performance of project control functions in organizations.
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Project Management Maturity Benchmark Project Management Maturity Benchmark

This research shows clearly that organizational and project management performance is linked to reaching higher levels of maturity and shows what distinguishes high-performing organizations from low-performing ones. Also, results from a similar survey conducted in 2001 were compared with the current results to see whether or not there has been improvement over time in project management maturity industry-wide and, if so, how much.
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Project Portfolio Management Project Portfolio Management

Project Portfolio Management: A Benchmark of Current Business Practices is the first survey to provide benchmark data on a wide variety of portfolio management issues. The findings are helpful in gauging the value of project portfolio management and what practices, in general, are most effective.
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Project Portfolio Management Maturity Benchmark Project Portfolio Management Maturity Benchmark

These research results document the maturity level of organizations in six components of project portfolio management: portfolio governance, project opportunity assessment, project prioritization and selection, portfolio communications management, portfolio performance management, and portfolio resource management. The report documents PPM maturity in a way that organizations can use to perform a self-assessment and compare their maturity to this baseline survey.
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Strategy & Projects Strategy & Projects

High-performing organizations integrate strategy execution, portfolio, program, project, and performance management best practices more than other organizations. Conversely, low-performing organizations consistently underutilize these best practices. These conclusions are among the results of this survey research by the Center for Business Practices.
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Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery Troubled Projects: Project Failure or Project Recovery

In this latest survey of senior project practitioners, the Center for Business Practices investigated the extent to which projects are troubled and recovered, the symptoms and root causes of the troubled projects, and the types of project recovery efforts and their outcomes.
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