Enterprise PMO  ·  Change Management  ·  Portfolio Governance  ·  Transformation

The project delivered. The organization didn't.

That gap has a name. And a path forward.

35 years. Pentagon to JPMorgan to Amazon to Washington State.

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Washington State
FTE + Consultant
DOH — Operations Director
Reported to the Secretary
DNR · L&I · DSHS · ESD · HCA
Project and consulting roles
Federal
Consultant
Pentagon · Army CIO
Stood up EPMO from scratch
16 programs · $1.6B · Congressional oversight
Education
Consultant
Seattle Public Schools
Principal consultant
Inception to completion, end to end
Private Sector
FTE + Consultant
Amazon — Global Tax PMO
25 jurisdictions · 6 continents
JPMorgan Chase — WaMu
Master schedule · 3M home loans
PMP· PMI-ACP· PROSCI· SAFe 6.0· CSM· SCPM

Field Guides

Start where the problem is.

Three practitioner guides built from 35 years of field experience. Download any of them. No form, no email required.

PMO

The PMO Field Guide

37 questions on portfolio governance, PMO design, and delivering strategic value.

  • What a PMO is and isn't
  • Why PMOs get shut down
  • Sponsor accountability
  • Portfolio governance that works
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OCM

The OCM Field Guide

37 questions on change management, sponsor behavior, and driving sustainable adoption.

  • Why change fails when it's well-resourced
  • ADKAR as a diagnostic
  • What go-live readiness actually requires
  • OCM in the AI era
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T+

Why Transformations Fail

27 questions on the patterns that derail digital transformation programs across every sector.

  • The most common failure modes
  • Status report theater
  • When a program is too far gone to save
  • The 90-day stabilization model
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The Integration Brief

PMO governs the system. OCM makes the strategy live inside it.

Most organizations run these disciplines in parallel. The ones that run them as one system get better outcomes. Here is why, and what it looks like in practice.

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"When the PMO says green and the workforce isn't moving, the problem isn't the dashboard. It's the seam between delivery and adoption that nobody owns."

From the Integration Brief

If something here named a problem you are living with — that is the place to start. Olympia, WA  ·  Available for contract and consulting engagements
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