Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Editor-in-Chief

In the mountain of data generated by the State of the PMO research study, there's a good bit of evidence that companies are feeling the pinch. Many PMOs have cut back slightly on services, more are feeling the heat from the executive level, and all are scrambling to perform better and measure that performance.

Q: Typically, where in an organization do you find the PM0 fitting?  Does it make sense to have it as a standalone department to serve all areas?   

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PM College must have its finger on the pulse of business; rarely has so much interest been shown so quickly when one of our research reports is released. The new PM College-sponsored benchmark study, The State of Project Management Training 2011, described by Debbie Crawford in our last post, came out on May 24 and has already been noticed by CIO Magazine and by Chief Learning Officer.

During last week's webinar on project recovery (you can view or download the webinar and related materials here), presenter Kent Crawford fielded a question from a participant about how to deal with organizational politics during a project recovery.

PM College has just kicked off development of a new research study, "The State of Project Management Training." The purpose of the research will be to:

If your company has asked whether the money spent to properly train project managers is really worth it, here's a research statistic you may want to publicize:

92% of companies that have recovered failing projects cite the importance of the project manager's role in the turnaround.

Because I’m already familiar with a good deal of the content presented in our Webinars, it’s the interactive portions of the program – the polls and questions from participants – that always hold the most interest for me.