Project Management Offices exist at all kinds of levels in an organization. You may have one set up to support a particular large project, or a specific team. The PMO may be attached to a corporate division, or support the work of one country in a multi-national business. Or you may have an
How To Launch PMO Training for Executives
Frequently, we see leaders within an organization who mean well, but who simply don’t have the skills to be able to carry out their roles on projects. They might be senior managers who have a lot of experience, but who have never been in the role of project sponsor before. They might be board
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions
How many times have you been in a meeting and felt you didn’t have the whole picture? Whether it’s a reference to a strategic decision, new plans for transformative change or something about the business landscape – it’s clear that they knew something that you didn’t. This kind of situation
What Does A PMO Do?
A PMO is a Project Management Office. It’s a function within an organization that defines the standards for project management. And it can do a whole lot more than that too. The main purpose of a PMO is to make sure that projects and programs are run in a repeatable, standardized way
Webinar: Tips for Handling Tough Conversations as a PMO Leader
For the leader of a Project Management Office, much of the working day is taken up with operational issues and ensuring that projects, programs and portfolios are operating as they should. From time to time you’ll have to face difficult conversations to ensure that you can still deliver those projects, programs and portfolios as a team.
How To Ask for More PMO Funding
We’ve written before about how to ask for more PMO staff to support your growing organization, but sometimes you need more than just bodies to deliver your strategy. In this article we’ll look at how to secure more funding for your PMO. It can
How To Ask for More PMO Staff
There comes a time in the journey for all PMOs that you can’t do more without more staff to support the work. There’s a limit to how agile and lean you can be and still offer a great service to your project management community and the executives
What Is Agile Portfolio Management?
Agile and Portfolio Management might not feel like they belong in the same sentence together. Agile is an adaptive, flexible way of managing change that can be used on a large scale or incrementally. Portfolio management is about understanding a suite of change across
How To Focus On Your PMO On Adding Value
We hear a lot of executives talk about wanting their Project Management Office to ‘add value’ but people aren’t always clear what they mean by that. And even if they do know what they are striving for, the PMO team sometimes struggle to work out what it really looks like
What Should A PMO Meeting Cover?
Project Management Office teams can be made up of a diverse group. You may have project management experts, or the project management team leader, project co-ordinators or others in more junior positions, analysts, software experts, data experts