AI Is Exposing How Work Really Gets Done
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen Organizations are rushing to add AI to workflows they do not fully understand. The risk is not simply that the output will be wrong. The bigger risk is that AI will accelerate the gap between the way work is documented and the way it actually happens. When that gap is filled with […]
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 […]
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 […]
6 Powerful Steps to Building a PMO Executives Actually Trust
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen One of the questions I hear most often from PMO leaders is this: How do I build a PMO executives actually trust? Sometimes the question comes from someone who has been asked to build a PMO from scratch. Other times, it comes from a leader who inherited a PMO that technically exists, but is not […]
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 […]
4 Questions to Ask Before Expanding Your PMO Services
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen If your PMO has started gaining traction in the organization, you may begin hearing a familiar request: “Can the PMO help with this too?” At first, that request can feel like validation. It suggests that leaders see value in the work your PMO is doing. When teams ask for more […]
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 […]