PMO Trends

The trend these days is to bemoan “managers” as old-fashioned and to hail “leaders” as forward-thinkers. That being said, job listings for managers are still more than double that for leaders. In a post for HotPMO!, John McIntyre explains that the semantics are ultimately trivial. But if you are going …

There is no aspect of business that is not heading toward its next big evolution. PMOs particularly seemed poised to transform into more robust entities that mean more for the business. In a post for the PM Perspectives Blog, Lindsay Scott shares the ideas of PMI’s Andy Jordan on how …

What’s in a name? When it comes to PMOs, a lot! Have you been paying attention to the PMO space recently? I have. More and more organizations are moving away from the title PMO for the organization that facilitates the planning and execution of business strategy. I’ve seen “business transformation …

PMI’s Pulse of the Profession is a page-turner every year, with insights useful to people at all levels and types of involvement in project management. It can be particularly useful to PMO leaders looking to see where they stand and where they can strive to improve. Of the 3,234 global …

What is the one thing your PMO does above all others that makes it an indispensable part of the organization? This question has been asked before, and Lindsay Scott discusses some research from 2015 in a post for the PM Perspectives Blog. Respondents of a survey were asked to select …

Which meteors are coming to humble your PMO this year? Or rather, which PMO improvements are you bold enough to undertake? In a post for the PM Perspectives Blog, Lindsay Scott considers the myriad challenges that PMOs might face this year: Improving the maturity of organizational project portfolio management (PPM) …

Computer Economics has offered up a concerning nugget of research about PMOs: Their use is declining, and the number of organizations making full use of PMOs is really declining. In general, the importance of a PMO as a best practice has fallen to a “middle” level, whereas it was deemed …

Is the project management office (PMO) an unnecessary obstacle preventing future progression? In a post for the Back from Red blog, the practicality of a PMO is analyzed and definitively put in its appropriate place. Do PMOs Shunt Responsibility? What is the role of a PMO? This tool is designed …

Changes in life are pretty difficult to spot from day to day, yet changes over a longer scale can be blatant. And over time, PMOs have started to differentiate in terms of type and how they are contributing to their organizations. In a post for the PM Perspectives Blog, Lindsay …

The future is a wild place when you are brave enough to stick it out. In a post for Voices on Project Management, Kevin Korterud makes four big predictions about the project management office (PMO) of 2025. The trends that challenge PMOs today, such as more complex projects, widely dispersed …