How Scarcity Mindset Limits PMO Influence and Leadership Growth
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Scarcity Mindset May Be Limiting Your PMO Influence More Than You Realize PMO and transformation leaders are trained to solve problems inside constraint. There is rarely enough time, funding, resources, sponsor support, executive attention, or organizational capacity to do everything everyone wants done. The job often requires making trade-offs, protecting capacity, […]
Why More Reporting Does Not Lead to Better Decisions with Scott Ambler
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working Why More Reporting Does Not Lead to Better Decisions Most organizations are not suffering from a lack of reports. They have dashboards, spreadsheets, status updates, reporting tools, analytics platforms, executive summaries, and teams of people working hard to turn activity into information. Yet many leaders still walk into meetings […]
AI Adoption That Sticks with Tracey Lovejoy
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Your Plan Is Not the Problem. Your People Are. PMOs rarely fail because of a weak plan. They fail because change never fully takes hold. Adoption stalls. Pilots linger. Big bets like AI stay stuck in pilot mode. The initiative was solid. The stakeholders said yes. And yet six months […]
Why Project Managers Must Start Thinking Like Entrepreneurs with Eddie Monroe
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen The Award Nobody Wanted Eddie Monroe stood in front of a room packed with nearly a thousand people. The moment came to announce the Project Manager of the Year for his territory. Eddie called the name. The room went silent. Not polite silence. Cricket silence. After the meeting ended, fifteen people ran up to him. They had […]
Top 5 PMO Mistakes That Keep PMOs from Demonstrating Value
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Many organizations still debate whether PMOs truly add value. Some executives view them as essential, while others see them as bureaucracy that slows the organization down. The reality is that both perspectives can be true depending on how the PMO was designed. In many companies, the PMO was originally created […]
How PMO Leaders Deliver Real IMPACT With FeatureOps
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working Have you ever celebrated a major release, only to realize that nothing meaningful changed for the business? The system went live. The timeline was met. The budget was respected. And yet the executive question remains: Did it improve anything? I’m joined by Egil Østhus, Co-founder and CEO of Unleash, an open-source feature management platform […]
Why Industry Benchmarks Fail Without Strategic Context
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Industry benchmarking has become one of the most persuasive tools in executive conversations. When research is cited, the discussion shifts from opinion to comparison. That shift feels safer. It feels defensible. But benchmarking is not strategy. It is context. In Episode 350 of the PMO Strategies Podcast, we examine how benchmarking […]
5 Reasons Spreadsheets Are Killing Your PMO Credibility
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills If spreadsheets, templates, and dashboards were the secret to PMO success, most PMO leaders would already be sitting confidently at the executive table. Instead, many are stuck updating trackers, refining reports, and chasing status updates while still being seen as task managers. In this episode of the PMO Strategies podcast, I explain why […]
How to Evolve Your PMO into an Agile, Data-Driven Strategy Engine with Youssef Mouzahem
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working What happens when control becomes the obstacle instead of the goal? Many PMO leaders are still chasing the dream of “perfect process,” only to find that their organization has moved on without them. The work gets done, the reports look right, but the real business IMPACT is nowhere to be found. The issue isn’t a lack of discipline. It […]
Leadership Intelligence: How AI-Powered Feedback Transforms PMO Leaders with Ben Perreau
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills When I started my career in 1999, I was a strong executor. I managed processes. I delivered projects on time. And then someone said: “Congratulations, you’re a PMO leader now.” I had absolutely no idea what that meant. Turns out, I wasn’t alone. According to research by the Chartered Institute of Managers, […]