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 […]
How PMO Leaders Build Credibility and Earn Executive Trust
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills The Credibility Problem Most PMO Leaders Are Not Told About One of the hardest parts of leading a PMO has nothing to do with project management. It is credibility. You can have the right framework, the right tools, the right templates, and the right intentions. But if the organization does […]
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 […]
Trust and Alignment: The Real Drivers of Project Success with Dr. Kimberly Strickland
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills The plan was never the problem Most PMO leaders still blame the plan. When a project stalls, we tighten the schedule. We add more status reports. We refine the risk log again. None of that touches the real issue. The problem is rarely a weak plan. The problem is often […]
The PMO’s role in strategic planning starts before execution
Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen The PMO’s role in strategic planning starts before execution PMO leaders are told to “execute the strategy” all the time. The problem is that many organizations don’t have a strategy that the business can actually deliver. What they have is […]
Stop Wasting Time: End Your Meeting-Based Culture Now
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working If your calendar is full but progress feels slow, the issue may not be effort. It may be design. In this episode of the PMO Strategies podcast, I address a pattern many PMO and transformation leaders unintentionally create: meeting-based operating models where nothing moves unless everyone gathers at the same time. Meetings […]
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 […]