The Better Project Delivery Blog
The requisition looked simple: Senior Project Manager, PMP preferred, seven-plus years of experience. Six weeks later, you’ve screened dozens of resumes that read almost identically. The hiring manage...
PMI Global Summit 2026 | Detroit, Michigan | October 21–24 | Booth #209
Every organization has a song that won't stop playing.
For some, it's the critical project that slips a little further at ever...
A mandate, a blank slate, and a lot of advice
“We’re standing up a PMO from scratch, and we don’t know where to start.”
Sometimes it arrives as a directive from the top: “We need a PMO.” Sometimes i...
Every initiative on the list is labeled critical, so nothing is truly prioritized. Teams are spread across more work than they can realistically deliver. Leaders recognize the overload but struggle to...
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Detroit, Michigan | October 21–24
A critical project is slipping, and no one sees a credible path forward. A key PM or PMO seat has been vacant for month...
Organizations usually come to us with some version of the same pattern: teams keep their own trackers off to the side. Status updates go into the PMO's system, then get rebuilt somewhere else so the w...
Your strongest project manager just gave notice. Again. And the last time you filled that seat, it took months — long enough that two initiatives lost momentum while the search dragged on.
People usu...
You know the meeting. Slides open, CFO scanning the summary page before you've even said hello, and somewhere in the back of your mind is the same question from last year: is this the cycle they final...
You get the req: "Project Manager." One title, one job code — but the role behind it could mean five different things. A PMP-certified program lead running a multi-million-dollar portfolio. A scrappy ...
Somewhere in your organization, someone just got a mandate: "Go build us a PMO."
No charter. No org chart precedent. Just a directive, a blank slate, and an expectation that this new function will so...
It's a familiar moment for a lot of executive teams: the annual strategy is set, the deck looks great, everyone nods in the room — and twelve months later, someone asks what happened to half of it. No...
You've built the reports. You've standardized the processes. You've implemented governance frameworks that should make any executive feel confident about project delivery. Yet when budget discussions ...
