Every strategy runs on a bet. The money, people, and technology behind it will carry it through. Most executives don’t trust that bet. Economist Impact research commissioned by Planview found that only 20% of executives are confident in the financial, human, and technological resources allocated to strategy implementat…
Every strategy runs on a bet. The money, people, and technology behind it will carry it through. Most executives don’t trust that bet. Economist Impact research commissioned by Planview found that only 20% of executives are confident in the financial, human, and technological resources allocated to strategy implementat…
In context
- Topic: Proyectos, PMO y Riesgos — Gestión de proyectos, oficinas de proyecto y riesgo del portafolio.
- Source: Planview
- Published: 14/10/2026
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Why it matters
A project management office is worth the decisions it makes possible, not the reports it produces. Once the PMO becomes the function chasing status updates, it has already lost: the team learns to fill in the template and the real information goes back to travelling through the corridors.
My filter is the quality of the status report. If every project is green, the reporting system is not working: in any real portfolio some initiatives are in trouble, and a healthy organisation surfaces them in time rather than discovering them at the closure committee.
What usually goes wrong
What I see fail most is the absent sponsor. They sign the kick-off, appear in the photo, and do not come back until there is a problem. Without somebody with real authority clearing obstacles every fortnight, the project manager ends up negotiating as an equal with areas that do not report to them, and loses.
What to watch
- How it was estimated and how close the same organisation's previous estimates turned out to be.
- Who the sponsor is and how often they actually show up — not on the org chart, in the calendar.
- Whether the status report shows any red projects: an all-green portfolio is a portfolio without information.
How I read this entry
I would use it to review how the organisation estimates. If historical estimates were systematically out by half and nobody adjusted the method, no project will land well: you are planning with a ruler that measures short and blaming the team for not reaching the mark.
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Living through this in your own team?
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