The lifeblood of any Project Management Office (PMO) is a stream of new ideas that turn into projects. Projects help deliver strategy, and they keep the team busy doing valuable work that helps the business achieve its objectives. The biggest challenge for business leaders is to decide what to work on. There aren’t enough hours […]
How to Create A Charter for Your Project Management Office
While there are various types of Project Management Office, no two PMOs are exactly alike. They all serve their businesses in different, unique ways. That’s why it’s helpful to document what your PMO is going to do and what purpose it serves. In this article we’ll dive more into the purpose and benefits of having […]
How To Use Technology To Improve PMO Capability
Many businesses make the decision to get started with PMO processes, (or risk management, or project management approaches) and then add the tech in later. This is a perfectly acceptable approach, but it does have drawbacks. There’s no escaping that paper-based (“electronic” paper!), highly manual processes are cheap to start off. And if you’ve got […]
How to Create Buy In for the PMO
More often than not, when we are engaged to help an organization set up a PMO, executive managers have already committed to the idea of a Project Management Office. They understand the benefits and services that a PMO will provide. They see the strategic value inherent in the work the PMO does. They know that […]
The Challenges of PMO Maturity
When we look at Project Management Office maturity levels, we often see that PMO leaders face a number of challenges in starting the journey. They want to move to a more mature PMO, offering a more services and providing more value to the business. But getting there isn’t as easy as you might think. Here […]
Organizational Change Management For Program Managers
When we work with Program Managers, we help them conceptualize, assess, plan and implement changes brought about by project results. While no client is the same, starting from different points, different levels of maturity, unique situations, etc. some common themes do appear. Are you struggling with some of these problems with managing the changes brought […]
How to Fix Poor Project Status Reporting
PMOs often take an active part in project status reporting. They consolidate reports from project managers, chase project managers for updates and it can feel like managing reporting it a huge time drain. But are you actually getting anything of value out of your project reports? If managers are still asking questions you think they […]
How to Build A PMO Maturity Model
How mature is your PMO? And does it matter? We would say that it doesn’t matter where you are, as long as you know where you are. And that’s where a PMO maturity model comes in. What is a PMO Maturity Model? A PMO maturity model is a way of assessing how good your PMO […]
PMO Symposium 2018
The Project Management Institute (PMI) is holding their annual PMO Symposium at the Marriott Marquis Washington (901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001) on 11-14 November. This year’s theme is ‘Mastering Value Delivery,’ focusing on two key areas of ‘The Resilient PMO’ and ‘Harnessing Disruptive Forces to Evolve Best Practices to Next Practices.’ PMO Symposium […]
Best Practices Bring Project Success
Project-Based Business Management Model There isn’t a single term used to describe any thriving business, but you’ve heard them all: global, fast-paced, decentralized. That’s because successful businesses aren’t a single, strategic project; they have multiple initiatives leveraging each other to meet their over-arching business objectives. Not only are there multiple projects, but these are widespread, […]