Welcome to the blog, where experts from PM College join you in discussing how to connect project performance and strategy execution.

Educating the Educators: The Business Benefits of Training

The 2018 Training Industry Survey, just released this week, shows that US companies pulled back 6.4% from their $90-billion-plus 2017 training spending. That's a lot of money! Yet there did not seem to be much analysis of... Read More »

Posted on Nov 8, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Key Finding: Adaptive Skills Shortage!

Recently, the PM Solutions Research Team conducted its latest research initiative: The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management. The study was designed to discover to what degree organizations employ adaptive approaches... Read More »

Posted on Oct 23, 2018 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

The Throughly Modern Dilemma of Knowledge Transfer

It was a gorgeous, cool and sunny morning in Los Angeles when I checked in at the PMI Congress, stoked to deliver my first PMI session in eight years, on our strategy research. Stepping into... Read More »

Posted on Oct 11, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

The Agile Organization and Its People

We are about to release our newest resarch study, The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management, just in time for the PMI Global Congress in Los Angleles. (Shameless self-promotion: Come to... Read More »

Posted on Oct 1, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Improve PM Skills Virtually

Back by popular demand! Our PM Essentials course lays the foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects. Participants gain an understanding of how the project management processes... Read More »

Posted on Sep 6, 2018 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

A Sneak Preview of Our New Study, The Adaptive Organization

I was very excited to get the preliminary results of our newest research study, The Adaptive Organization: A Benchmark of Changing Approaches to Project Management. After my first read-through, I had some questions. Below is... Read More »

Posted on Aug 10, 2018 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Hot Off the Presses, Our Updated Guide to PM Essentials

PM College, the training division of PM Solutions, today announced the publication of its latest book – Project Management Essentials 4th Edition. For those new to project management, unofficial project managers, or project team members,... Read More »

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Agile Much? Adaptive Process Benchmark Study Closes July 11

Harvard Business Review posted a great article on the myths that surround agility ... you know, that hipster software-geeky stuff that's not applicable to your projects? Wait a sec, says HBR. They make a great... Read More »

Posted on Jul 10, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin