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Beyond the Project Management Office, Institutionalizing Project Management as a Core Function

This article is about going beyond the project management office and institutionalizing project management as a core organizational function. Introduction: Project Management Offices Project Management Offices (PMOs) have long been the default organizational solution for managing project performance. Yet, despite decades of tools, certifications, frameworks, and effort, project success rates are still stubbornly low. While...

In this post, I am borrowing a section from an internal document. This document addresses our views on the leading projects performance inhibitors. In other words, the root causes of why organizations do not do as well as they could in managing their organizational projects and products delivery. What is missing in their project management...

I am writing this post, including some personal background information. I write to the attention of senior executives in organizations that are leading large projects, capital projects, and mega projects. You are my audience if you are an executive in what we call project owner organization. These include government, semi-gov, and private. Your projects could...

Is it time to rethink the project management function? What triggered this discussion, is a recent post on rethinking the PMO. I know I have written on this topic before, but many articles on social media keep popping up, which encouraged me to write again. Today, we will make the case to rethink the project management...