Here are 10 signs that your PMO is struggling. You’ve implemented a PMO – great. PMOs can add a lot of value but sometimes they fail to meet the organization’s needs. You want to be able to step in before that situation gets out of hand and you find yourself managing a team with low […]
5 Benefits of a PMO Health Check
Making time for a PMO health check is perhaps not top of your list of priorities right now. We understand that running a PMO can be an all-consuming job. We understand that running a PMO can be an all-consuming job. That’s exactly why it’s worth putting some time in your schedule now and give your […]
Time To Give Your PMO A Health Check?
You regularly assess the performance of projects, but as a Project Management Office team, how often do you assess your own performance? It might be time to give your PMO a health check. In this article, we look at why you would want to do that and when is the right time. We also look […]
5 Difficult Conversations for PMO Leaders To Have
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 […]
What Sort Of PMO Are You?
However, there are 5 types of PMO that we see most commonly. They were also identified in a study by PMI® called PMO Frameworks (available free on the PMO Thought Leadership page of the PMI website)
5 Tips for Project Prioritization
Strategic alignment is a buzzword that you’ll hear in project management circles at the moment. It means making sure that the projects you are working on are the ones that will make it possible for you to achieve your strategy. This is where project prioritization comes in. Those projects should be the top of your […]
10 Resources Your PMO Should Offer
What PMO resources should you be offering? We use the term ‘Project Management Office’ but in reality there’s no one-size-fits all PMO. As Peter Taylor notes in his book, Leading Successful PMOs, “there are typically three styles of PMO – directive, supportive and controlling.” In a directive PMO the project managers work for the PMO […]
Equipping Your PMO For Managing Benefits
The PMO is in an ideal position to support managing benefits. The big problem with understanding the benefits of a project is that the benefits happen after the project has finished. That’s normal, and expected. So why is it a problem? The problem is that once the project has finished, the project governance structures fall […]
How PMOs Contribute to Organizational Alignment
Organizational alignment is something that businesses strive for: The knowledge that your teams are all working effectively together to achieve a strategic aim. The PMO isn’t just the vehicle for making sure that projects align to strategy; it can also contribute to making sure that the organization as a whole is working together in the […]
5 Ways To Bring Project Managers to the PMO
The PMO has many functions in an organization but they can all be broadly summed up by helping project managers and their teams get work done more effectively. That can only happen if the project managers work with the PMO in a seamless way. There shouldn’t be tension between the program and project managers and […]