Why PMO Service Adoption Fails After a Successful Launch
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Why PMO Service Adoption Fails After a Successful Launch Your launch meeting was full. Training completion is high. The templates are on SharePoint. Yet an executive still bypasses the prioritization process, a project owner finds the old intake form, and the governance meeting ends without the decision it was designed to produce. […]
How PMO Leaders Can Break Decision Paralysis Without Waiting for Certainty
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Some of the most expensive words in an organization are, “We’re waiting for more clarity.” The sentence sounds responsible. Sometimes it is. A team may be missing a legal requirement, a material financial assumption, a safety decision, or information that could make a major commitment impossible to reverse. But I have […]
Stop Chasing What Looks Good: The Moneyball Lesson for PMO Leaders with Dawn Mahan and Grayson Barnard
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills This is one of the most personal podcast episodes I have recorded. For the first time, my son and co-author, Grayson Barnard, joined me on the PMO Strategies Podcast. One of my closest friends, Dawn Mahan, joined us too. Dawn created the idea of Projectland, wrote Meet the Players in Projectland, and […]
How PMO Leaders Crush Their Authority Without Realizing It
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills There is a phrase I hear all the time from PMO leaders, transformation leaders, project managers, and delivery professionals. It usually sounds something like this: “The sponsor said we need to do it this way.” “The boss wants this done.” “Executive leadership told us this is required.” On the surface, that language […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lead Sustainably or Burn Out Trying with Mita Broca
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills You Cannot Build Sustainable Organizations with Depleted People There is a version of sustainability that never shows up in a corporate environmental report. It does not have a carbon metric or a waste reduction target. It does not get presented to the board. But when it runs out, your strategy stalls, your […]
Failure vs. Feedback: 5 Ways PMO Leaders Turn Setbacks Into Strategic Intelligence
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Failure feels personal in transformation leadership Transformation leadership is visible work. When a governance rollout creates friction, stakeholders feel it. When a portfolio decision gets overridden, executives notice. When funding shifts and your roadmap collapses, the organization sees the stall. For PMO and transformation leaders, setbacks rarely happen quietly. […]