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Why Don’t Executives “Get” the PMO? Bridging the Gap to Drive PMO Success

What to do when you think your PMO is good

Creating a Strategic PMO is a Zoo!

What has the PMO ever done for us? A conversation with PMO royalty!

PMO Service Catalogue Template - What Services Should Your PMO Offer?

Stakeholder Alignment: The not-so-secret key to PMO success

Strategy Execution and Sesame Street

Crossing the Information Divide: How PMOs Can Communicate Strategic Value to Execs

The best PMO in the world - an interview

The Evolving Role of PMOs: Transforming into IMPACT Engines

Agile Governance: Streamlining Projects for Maximum Value

Pet Projects: Mythical Unicorns or Hungry Hippos?

Value-Based Prioritization: A Better Way to Select Projects

Goal-Oriented Management: How to Deliver Big Hairy Audacious Goals

Organizational Accountability and Its Role in Strategy Execution

Collaborative Strategy Building in a Digital World

Resource Capacity Planning: Insights and Best Practices

Strategic Goals – the Key to Strategic Execution

Project Completion: The Value of Getting Projects Done, Not Just Started

Discover the Secrets to Successful Business Transformation

Portfolio Governance - Insights, Strategies & Tips

6 PMO Tools to Keep Your Portfolios Aligned to Strategy

10 PMO Best Practices to Maximize the Strategic Value of Portfolios

Prioritization: Why people are so much more than resource

Who moved my resource? Why prioritization needs change management

Red Pill or Blue Pill: Fix Prioritization Now

Urgent action for all PMOs: Weed your projects!

Why AHP works for Prioritization

Prioritization - The Efficient Frontier

AHP: The foundation for a great portfolio in just 8 weeks

What’s the point of doing projects?

The Spreadsheet Paradox: Free to Use, But Costs Millions on Misaligned Projects

Optimize Project Flow: Make projects go faster by slowing down!

Einstein and the Strategic Advantage

PMOs and the Saddest Excel Joke…

Collaborative Decision Making - The Ultimate Guide

Too Many Projects - The Ultimate Guide

Noise in Decision-Making: Your decisions undermined daily!

Prioritization Spreadsheet: 6 Reasons It's Destroying Value

The Meg – Why Megaprojects Fail

PMO Cluedo - Murder in the Boardroom?

Strategy-Execution Gap: Is your CEO driving a Clown-car?

How to Identify PMO Value Proposition?


Another project failure? Time to align projects to strategy

Project Prioritization Matrix: Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes


PMOs Should Stop Prioritizing Demand!

Unlocking Your PMO’s Potential: From Underperformer to Champion

My Project Just Failed... or Did It?

Benefits Realization is easier than you think


Project Turnaround: Strategies to Rescue Failing Projects and Portfolios

Project managers are a waste of space. So are PMOs

Setting up a PMO: The Grand Design?


Is your PMO guaranteed to fail?

Agile Budgeting: Overcoming Budget Process Frustrations

70% of Executives not engaged; a PMO wake-up call

Only 50% of PMOs survive. Fight back!

McKinsey Research: 40% More Value from a Portfolio?

What has the PMO ever done for us?

What is Picking Projects Worth to a PMO?

Why is the budgeting process so difficult?

4 Ways to Improve Executive Sponsorship
The Importance of Confidence to Project Outcomes