Author: Shahidah Foster, CAPM
Every other month, the Curator’s Pick brings you selected learning content from the PMI library. Each article spotlights one key topic drawn from PMI focus areas, PMI Switzerland Member’s Choice, or emerging trends.
This edition focuses on a question many PMO leaders are actively grappling with as we begin the new year: how can PMOs continue to demonstrate relevance as AI reshapes how organizations make decisions and execute strategy?
In a world where AI accelerates the pace of change, the role and positioning of the PMO are becoming harder to classify. Relevance is no longer defined by reporting alone, but by the PMO’s ability to enable decisions, align portfolios to strategy, and deliver measurable value. The PMI offers a wide range of learning resources that explore how PMOs can evolve into a strategic partner, a decision enabler and leverage AI proficiently to deliver value.
The following curated resources offer practical and strategic perspectives to help PMO leaders navigate this shift and strengthen their impact in the year ahead.
Our first resource, the Bridging the Gap report, highlights what PMOs should focus on to become future-ready: a strategic, customer-centric, and value-driven approach supported by the adoption of new technologies (e.g. AI and data analytics). As more senior leaders expect strategy execution partners instead of reporting functions, this report outlines how PMOs can evolve from process enforcers to value-driven strategic enablers and why using AI and data analytics is critical to doing so.
The next resource, AI-Powered PMO: From Dashboards to GPS, explores the evolution of the traditional PMO into the AI-powered PMO. By defining what an AI-powered PMO looks like and identifying what makes it work, this article offers guidance on how PMOs can effectively leverage AI to support prioritization, foresight, and strategic alignment.
As useful as AI is, there are important caveats. To balance opportunity with responsibility, 7 Mistakes PMO Leadership Must Avoid in an AI-Driven Environment outlines the common pitfalls that can undermine impact. It highlights risks such as failure to integrate AI into processes, understating the importance of governance and data quality as a basis for strategic decision-making as well as ignoring the ethical complexities that AI introduces into the project economy.
Lastly, no matter where your PMO sits in its maturity journey, the ability to demonstrate its value is critical. One of PMI’s many on-demand webinars, Project Headway: Demonstrating PMO Relevance, focuses on asking the right questions to establish shared meaning of value and purpose while identifying ways to ensuring PMO resilience in the face of challenges.
Whether you are reassessing your PMO’s strategic role or refining how AI is applied in practice, these resources offer valuable perspectives to support informed action. We invite you to explore PMI articles and webinars to identify which insights are most relevant to your PMO’s current priorities.
Shahidah Foster, CAPM