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 members […]
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions
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. […]
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 Project Management Office (PMO) is to make sure that projects and programs are run in a repeatable, standardized way. […]
How To Ask for More PMO Funding
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. Need More PMO Funding? In this article we’ll look at how to secure more PMO funding. It can be a […]
How To Ask for More PMO Staff
Need more PMO staff? There comes a time in the journey for all PMOs that you can’t do more without more PMO 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. Every PMO is […]
What Is Agile Portfolio Management?
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 an organization or division. You need […]
How Your PMO Can Add Value To Your Organization
We hear a lot of executives talk about how their PMO can add value 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 in practice. In this article […]
What Should A PMO Meeting Cover?
What should a PMO meeting cover in your organization? 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, business leaders, trainers, strategists and more. When you get […]
Project Review or Lessons Learned? What’s the Difference?
You know that projects need governance, but where does the project review and lessons learned fit in? And what’s the difference between them? They both take a project and review what’s happened on it with the objective of coming up with a written report for next steps. In this article we look at the differences […]
Resilience an Important Schedule Quality Attribute
An optimized schedule is good, but a resilient schedule is better. It provides for a more reliable plan that is less susceptible to risk and more able to recover from unexpected external events. Most inexperienced sea voyagers plan the shortest route to their destination, but any sailor “worth his salt” knows better. The shortest way […]