While there are various types of Project Management Office charters, 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 […]
How To Use Technology To Improve PMO Capability
What PMO technology do you use? Many businesses make the decision to get started with PMO processes, (or risk management, or project management approaches) and then add the PMO technology 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 […]
How to Create Buy In for the PMO
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 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
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 […]
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? Are 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 2018 at the Marriott Marquis Washington (901 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001) on 11-14 November. This year’s PMO Symposium 2018 theme is ‘Mastering Value Delivery,’ focusing on two key areas of ‘The Resilient PMO’ and ‘Harnessing Disruptive Forces to Evolve Best Practices to […]
Best Practices Bring Project Success
Project-Based Business Management Model Best practices can bring project success. 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 […]
3 Simple Steps to Setting Up a PMO
Setting up a PMO (Project Management Office) for the first time can seem like a daunting step. In this article we’ll show you the 3 simple things you need to do when setting up a PMO up, keeping it running, delivering value, as quickly as possible. 1. Build Trust First, you need to gain the […]