One of the assumptions I make about M.O.R.E. is that many project managers know more about it than the decision-makers in their companies, and that not all companies have the same need for it from their project managers. Here's a quick poll regarding what your company expects of you, as a project manager, in regards to M.O.R.E.:
[see my reply, below, for a working link. The form is adding HTML to it that I can't edit.]
If your company doesn't expect M.O.R.E. from you, is it due to lack of awareness, by design, or something else?
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Aaron, I think there may be another dimension to consider alongside awareness and design: organizational enablement.
A company may expect M.O.R.E. from its project managers while leaving decision rights, resources, sponsorship and key trade-offs elsewhere in the organization. In that case, the expectation has expanded, but the professional’s legitimate authority and capacity to act may not have expanded with it.
I would also distinguish broader contribution from broader accountability. A project manager can expand perspective, continually reassess assumptions and actively contribute to project success without becoming accountable for organizational conditions or decisions that legitimately belong to sponsors, business owners, technical authorities or operations.
So perhaps the question is not only whether organizations expect M.O.R.E. from project managers, but whether they have created the conditions that make those expectations governable, and whether each expectation belongs to the role in the first place.
By the way, the link to the poll does not seem to be working.
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1 reply by Aaron Porter
Sep 02, 2026 12:42 PM
Aaron Porter
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I don't disagree, and I'm curious what other project managers are experiencing. I think PMI is presenting an aspirational direction for project management, and that M.O.R.E. won't be consistently applied, everywhere, for various reasons. I'd like to validate my assumption with other project managers' experiences.
Aaron, I think there may be another dimension to consider alongside awareness and design: organizational enablement.
A company may expect M.O.R.E. from its project managers while leaving decision rights, resources, sponsorship and key trade-offs elsewhere in the organization. In that case, the expectation has expanded, but the professional’s legitimate authority and capacity to act may not have expanded with it.
I would also distinguish broader contribution from broader accountability. A project manager can expand perspective, continually reassess assumptions and actively contribute to project success without becoming accountable for organizational conditions or decisions that legitimately belong to sponsors, business owners, technical authorities or operations.
So perhaps the question is not only whether organizations expect M.O.R.E. from project managers, but whether they have created the conditions that make those expectations governable, and whether each expectation belongs to the role in the first place.
By the way, the link to the poll does not seem to be working.
I don't disagree, and I'm curious what other project managers are experiencing. I think PMI is presenting an aspirational direction for project management, and that M.O.R.E. won't be consistently applied, everywhere, for various reasons. I'd like to validate my assumption with other project managers' experiences.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Sep 02, 2026 2:00 PM
Luis Branco
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That makes sense, Aaron. I think the gap between the aspirational direction and what organizations actually expect, enable and authorize may be one of the most interesting things the poll reveals.
I will also be interested in whether the responses show a general movement toward M.O.R.E. with different degrees of organizational readiness, or genuinely different views about what should belong to the Project Manager role in the first place.
Those would be quite different explanations for the same apparent variation.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Sep 02, 2026 12:42 PM
Replying to Aaron Porter
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I don't disagree, and I'm curious what other project managers are experiencing. I think PMI is presenting an aspirational direction for project management, and that M.O.R.E. won't be consistently applied, everywhere, for various reasons. I'd like to validate my assumption with other project managers' experiences.
That makes sense, Aaron. I think the gap between the aspirational direction and what organizations actually expect, enable and authorize may be one of the most interesting things the poll reveals.
I will also be interested in whether the responses show a general movement toward M.O.R.E. with different degrees of organizational readiness, or genuinely different views about what should belong to the Project Manager role in the first place.
Those would be quite different explanations for the same apparent variation. Saving Changes...
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