You run a great PMO. Your team are engaged and everything is going according to your three-year strategic plan. That’s wonderful – but it doesn’t mean you should get complacent. As with any business team (especially the ones not directly linked to revenue generation) it’s a manager’s job to stay
How Your PMO Can Support Benefits Delivery
We start projects because we want something out of them. Those deliverables are supposed to give the project owners the tools they need to achieve the stated benefits. However, project managers aren’t always involved in the benefits-side of
7 Specialist Services Your PMO Can Offer
Project Management Offices are all about tracking, right? Well, not really. While supporting teams to track individual projects and monitoring the health of the portfolio overall are key services that the PMO can offer your exec team, that’s not where
Questions To Ask Before You Set Up A PMO
Setting up a Project Management Office (PMO) can be fraught with difficulty. There’s the challenge of gaining executive support for creating what could be seen as an extra level of administration and bureaucracy. There’s the issue of
Governance Services for Your PMO
There are lots of ways to set up a Project Management Office to support your business objectives and to deliver what the organization needs in order to manage its portfolio effectively. A key function of your PMO is
4 Ways Your PMO Can Build Capability
Your Project Management Office needs to adapt to better meet the needs of the organization, and one of the best ways to do that is through improving the capability of the staff so that they can respond more effectively. That goes for the project management community as a
PMO Conference 2017
The PMO Conference 2017 is being on Wednesday June 7th 2017, at etc.venues St Paul’s. Etc.venues are located at 200 Aldersgate near St Paul’s Cathedral & the Barbican. In its’ third year, this PMO Conference is the UK’s only conference & exhibition which is purely focused on PMO
The Crucial Governance Functions Your PMO Carries Out
Your Project Management Office has a crucial governance role to play in ensuring that projects complete on time and deliver what they say they will. In this article we’ll look at 6 of the top governance functions that your PMO might offer. Not all PMOs will offer
How Your PMO Supports Project Delivery
For many organizations, trying to deliver a project without the support of a Project Management Office (PMO) would be unheard of. PMOs operate at so many levels within a business from providing executive insight and portfolio management
5 Value-Adds From Portfolio Management
Portfolio Management takes project and program management to a whole new level. It’s where projects and programs are looked at in the round, alongside other critical business activity. It gives you the complete picture of organizational