I recently sent a notice to my daughter, a young professional working in a major pharmaceutical firm, about a project management class I knew she would be interested in.  She just got her CAPM... Read More »

Posted on Feb 29, 2016 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Business Case for Training, Performance Measurement, Project Management Training, Training

Posted on Feb 29, 2016 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Business Case for Training, Performance Measurement, Project Management Training, Training

The trend is unmistakable: elearning is here to stay. According to research by eLearning Industry, this instructional method has grown by over 9% in the past five years. One area in particular stood out for us:...... Read More »

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 by

Posted on Feb 11, 2016 by

On the Strategy & Projects blog this week, we delved into a question about the optimal number of projects that one project manager can handle at a time. (You can read the answer here.)As... Read More »

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Posted on Jan 27, 2016 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Our founder, Kent Crawford, gave a great talk on real-world project portfolio management at this year’s PMO Symposium. Kent’s twist is that there’s a lot of breakthrough performance in... Read More »

Posted on Nov 11, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Portfolio Management, Project Management Events

Posted on Nov 11, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Portfolio Management, Project Management Events

Jonathan Becher (@jbecher)—SAP’s Chief Marketing Officer—has an excellent, longstanding blog named “Manage by Walking Around.” I could not help but think of Jonathan as I heard another... Read More »

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Culture & Change Management, Leadership, Project Management Events

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Business Skills for PMs, Culture & Change Management, Leadership, Project Management Events

I’m attending—with my PM Solutions colleagues—the 2015 PMO Symposium in Phoenix. I’d like to share some of the great knowledge and experience on offer, therefore I’ll... Read More »

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 by in Business Skills for PMs, Portfolio Management, Project Management Events

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 by in Business Skills for PMs, Portfolio Management, Project Management Events

During my latest teach of our Strategies for Effective Stakeholder Engagement course, I related my Babson strategy professor’s admonition that stories are at the core of how humans communicate. Stories are how... Read More »

Posted on Nov 9, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Competency, Human Capital, Leadership, Project Management Training, Stakeholder Management, Strategy Execution

Posted on Nov 9, 2015 by in Business Case for Training, Competency, Human Capital, Leadership, Project Management Training, Stakeholder Management, Strategy Execution

By popular demand, PM College just opened registration for a public edition of its most popular class: Project Management Essentials. PM Essentials lays the foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order... Read More »

Posted on Nov 4, 2015 by

Posted on Nov 4, 2015 by