PMs need to connect delivery to higher business goals. Knowledge of your organization’s business strategy shapes how you facilitate decisions and communicate alignment. Fortunately, you can build this capability without formal training.
With companies seeing lower-than-forecast returns on AI initiatives, we need to make sure we’re starting the right projects. Here’s how to keep your portfolio on track.
Why do so many organizations remain focused primarily on traditional strategies and priorities? To gain a meaningful competitive advantage, businesses must seek to embrace a more diverse set of strategies—and execute on them consistently.
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We start the new decade with a bang as we present the 13th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition! Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, PMXPO provides an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and broaden your perspective on project management. This year’s show is headlined by keynote speaker Cara Brookins, a bestselling author who rebuilt her broken family by building her own house watching “how-to” videos on YouTube.
Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.
If you perform business analysis, your work is vital to project and program success. To most effectively support your organization and advance in your career, you need to know how to apply BA to any situation and delivery method. The new PMI Guide to Business Analysis will help you achieve this! Get an exclusive preview, with in-depth insights, at the PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2017.
Join us for an insightful presentation on "The Evolution of PMO: Rise of a Chief Project Officer," a groundbreaking book that has evolved into a global movement within the project management community.
Projects today are increasingly supported by AI and advanced digital tools, yet many still experience delays and poor delivery outcomes. This is largely due to gaps in execution rather than a lack of technology.
Managing AI projects without understanding AI can create uncertainty, misalignment, and risk.AI literacy enables project managers to plan realistically, manage risks effectively, collaborate with AI teams, and deliver meaningful business outcomes. “AI Literacy for Project Managers” is designed for PMs leading—or preparing to lead—AI-driven initiatives.
Many organizations are experimenting with AI, but only a small number successfully move beyond pilots into measurable enterprise impact. AI initiatives often stall because project teams focus on the technology while underestimating governance, data readiness, stakeholder alignment, risk management, change adoption, and value realization.
A good project charter gets produced as soon as the project starts (and before any planning is done in earnest). It is the earliest definition of what the project is intended to accomplish, why it is being initiated and what the organization expects as a result. This template includes a description, instructions, and guidelines for adapting.
True AI readiness goes beyond superficial appeal; it requires a deep understanding of the organization's business models, challenges and objectives. This spreadsheet assists organizations in analyzing their maturity for adopting AI solutions.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are ways of measuring and monitoring project health. This template provides structure to outlining and articulating measures. It is the means of defining the KPIs that will be used, how they will be measured, and how they should be interpreted.
The project financial analysis template calculates key metrics to determine the business case for a project. The template is an Excel file that can be used by a project manager, project sponsor or a relevant professional to determine if a project should be pursued.
The purpose of the Portfolio Management Proposal is to articulate an approach for effectively evaluating the impact of each project to the company’s portfolio(s). The process will support project governance, allowing the business to make informed decisions on which projects to execute to deliver the most value to the organization. Use this sample proposal as a starting point and adapt to fit your company and needs.
Compliance is too often treated as something to deal with later, as a final hurdle rather than a foundation. And that assumption is one of the most reliably costly mistakes a project manager can make.
Organizational stiffness slows down decisions, stops creativity, and makes it harder to adapt. Learn how agile project principles, cross-functional collaboration, and rituals for continuous improvement can help teams get their flexibility back.
Business acumen can feel abstract. We see it in job descriptions, but what does it actually look like? Here are seven easy ways to demonstrate business acumen every day.
After layoffs, strong project management isn’t about doing more with less. It’s about resetting expectations, creating alignment, and ensuring that every commitment has a foundation in reality. The result is a roadmap that tells the truth—and a team and organization equipped to deliver on it.
PMI interviewed executives across industries about the people-related factors that enable—or hinder—enterprise agility. The quotes that follow offer a candid view of the leadership behaviors, mindsets, and organizational conditions that help people thrive in a complex, fast-changing world.
Members of the PMI Thought Leadership Advisory Council share how they've put M.O.R.E. into practice—not in theory, but in the specific, sometimes messy reality of their work. The responses reflected the depth and range of experience the council represents.
In developing the Manifesto for Enterprise Agility, PMI interviewed executives across industries about the barriers organizations face in becoming more agile enterprises. They share what organizations must tackle if they hope to become truly adaptive enterprises.
Executives want evidence that strategy is advancing. How do you reposition yourself as a value creator? It is less about changing what you do day to day, and more about changing how you frame and report what you are doing.
Layoffs don’t change what the business wants to achieve. They change what the team can actually deliver. That gap is where most plans fail. Strong project management doesn’t try to close that gap through effort alone. It resets the conversation.
Not everyone has the luxury of choosing their sponsor or pausing a project. These seven creative, tested strategies are designed for real-world project leaders navigating organizational complexity, where titles don’t always equal commitment.
By integrating capacity data into portfolio governance, PMOs can address chronic challenges. Use these five actionable steps to establish capacity transparency, strengthen cross‑functional alignment, and embed TCM into portfolio‑level decision‑making.
Project managers must learn to embrace uncertainty—and adjust how they operate in order to ensure that they are able to deliver the most effective and aligned solutions in even the most trying times.
Strategic success requires everyone to be pulling in the same direction. That's sometimes challenging. But many organizations are making it harder than it needs to be. Are your leaders aligned on what's important?
Delivering exponential impact doesn’t require more tools or resources. It requires a fundamental shift in how projects are conceived, measured and led. Here are five strategies to guide that shift.
