Tabsters Barometer 2025: the benchmark white paper on project management
After several months of research, analysis, and discussions with stakeholders in the field, Tabsters has published the 2025 Barometer White Paper: an in-depth, structured summary of the realities of project, program, and portfolio management in today's organizations.
Conducted from April to September 2025, the Tabsters Barometer draws on a broad panel of management professionals (PMOs, project managers, program directors, portfolio managers, transformation managers, CIOs) from a variety of sectors who are faced with increasingly complex, cross-functional, and constrained environments.
This 60-page white paper, organized into eight chapters, goes far beyond a simple overview of the current situation. It offers a clear, well-argued, and practical analysis of current practices, their structural limitations, and concrete levers for changing management models.
Why download the Tabsters 2025 Barometer White Paper?
- To obtain an exclusive and structured analysis of project management today,
- To understand the root causes of the inefficiencies observed in the field,
- To identify best practices actually observed in the most advanced organizations,
- To leave with concrete ideas that can be applied immediately.
Download the complete White Paper of the Tabsters 2025 Barometer and get a head start on the evolution of project, program, and portfolio management:
What the 2025 Barometer reveals
The Barometer highlights a key finding: digitization has accelerated, but management remains largely artisanal. Massive dependence on Office tools, time-consuming manual reporting, slow governance, shifting priorities, unstable data... The White Paper provides an in-depth analysis of the hidden costs of these practices: human, organizational, decision-making, and strategic costs.
Throughout the chapters, the analysis shows how this fragmentation of management leads to inefficiency, loss of meaning, and widespread fatigue, while undermining organizations' ability to make quick and effective decisions.
Best practices observed in the most advanced organizations
The White Paper does not stop at diagnosis. It highlights best practices from the most mature organizations, those that have begun a shift toward more industrialized, transparent, and proactive management.
Data centralization, standardized decision-making formats, automated reporting, governance refocused on trade-offs, hybrid models combining agility and structure: these practices are analyzed, illustrated, and put into perspective based on the findings of the Barometer.
An entire chapter is also devoted to a 2030 vision of management, where AI supports understanding and decision-making, without replacing human judgment, in organizations that are more explainable, more aligned, and more sustainable.
A decidedly practical White Paper
To enable organizations to take action, the 2025 Barometer concludes with seven concrete quick wins, drawn directly from the study's findings. The aim is to offer simple, immediately actionable levers to initiate the transformation of management, without waiting for a complete overhaul of tools or organizations.
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