What Executives Actually Want From Their PMO in 2026 (That Most PMOs Aren’t Delivering)
Your PMO is more disciplined than ever. Your delivery is more reliable than ever. Your executive team is less impressed than ever. Here’s exactly why.
Author: Kaly Samadi
The Three Workforce Trends Executives Are Missing (And What They’re Costing Delivery)
Your retention is holding. Your hiring is on pace. Your utilization looks fine. And your delivery is slipping anyway. Here’s why. Every executive running a project-driven operation I talk to has some version of the same dashboard on their screen. Retention is trending steady. Open roles are being filled at roughly the expected pace. Utilization Read more about The Three Workforce Trends Executives Are Missing (And What They’re Costing Delivery)[…]
What a Lean Executive Team Needs from a Staffing Firm (That Most Don’t Provide)
You don’t have a dedicated recruiter. You can’t afford a bad hire. And you don’t have time to run the search yourself. Here’s what actually solves that. Some of the hardest hires I see aren’t at large enterprises with sophisticated talent acquisition functions. They’re at lean executive teams making critical hires without the internal infrastructure Read more about What a Lean Executive Team Needs from a Staffing Firm (That Most Don’t Provide)[…]
The Real Reason Your Margins Are Eroding on Project Work
The estimate looked healthy. The team delivered. The customer was happy. Somehow, the P&L came in lower than it should have. Again. Every delivery leader I work with has watched this pattern play out. The project estimate looks healthy at the start. The team executes reasonably well. The customer is satisfied at the end. And Read more about The Real Reason Your Margins Are Eroding on Project Work[…]
The Difference Between a Staffing Firm and a Recruitment Partner
Sourcing has been commoditized. What separates the firms that will survive from the ones that won’t is what happens after the resume gets submitted. For most of the last two decades, the staffing industry’s core value proposition has been access. Firms had candidates that hiring managers couldn’t easily find on their own. That access was Read more about The Difference Between a Staffing Firm and a Recruitment Partner[…]
What Your Software Vendor Won’t Tell You (That Sinks Implementations)
The demo looked great. The sales team was responsive. The pricing worked. Six months in, the implementation is a mess. Here’s why that keeps happening. Every software vendor I’ve ever met is genuinely convinced their product is the right answer for your problem. That belief is what makes them good at selling. It’s also what Read more about What Your Software Vendor Won’t Tell You (That Sinks Implementations)[…]
Why Contract-to-Hire Is Becoming the Smartest Way to Build a PM Team
Hiring managers are gun-shy. Candidates are pragmatic. And the staffing model in the middle has stopped being a fallback. It’s becoming the strategy. Five years ago, when I told a client we could place a project manager on a contract-to-hire basis, the typical response was polite skepticism. Most hiring managers wanted full-time hires. Contract-to-hire was Read more about Why Contract-to-Hire Is Becoming the Smartest Way to Build a PM Team[…]
The Reports Nobody Trusts: Why Manual Status Updates Are Killing Executive Confidence
When status reports are stitched together by hand from six different sources, two things happen. They’re always late, and nobody believes them. I’ve sat in a lot of executive meetings in the last seventeen years. The pattern that comes up more than any other has nothing to do with strategy or budgets. It’s this: An Read more about The Reports Nobody Trusts: Why Manual Status Updates Are Killing Executive Confidence[…]