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What is a PMO?

Does your organisation lose out on learning?

Why you should have your retrospective run independently

What to look for in a partner to run your retrospective

I messed up live on air!

Of pointy umbrellas on public transport

The Campaign for Real Project Managers

5 lessons I learned from making my #OpenToWork video series

30 November 2020

The value of an outsider’s perspective

Sussing out services at PMO Flashmob

28 February 2020

Project data analytics impact (and promise): hype or reality?

23 January 2020

REVIEW: PMO Value Ring (PMO-CP)

29 October 2019

5 Lessons I learned writing a book about learning lessons

Learning lessons from projects

Visualising Data

10 November 2018

How to drive REAL impact with your PMO

The Real “P” in PMO

9 September 2018

How to trace predecessors and successors in MS-Project ®

PPM Tools: 6 questions to ask first

So you think you need a PPM tool?

How to set up time-boxed look-ahead views in MS-Project ® using compound task filters

2 February 2018

How to set up custom Gantt chart views in MS-Project ®

26 January 2018

How to create PDF Gantt chart extracts with dynamic labels in MS-Project ®

19 January 2018

How to diagnose schedule management problems in MS-Project ®

21 November 2017

How to calculate RAG status in MS-Project ®

20 October 2017

How to diagnose schedule setup problems in MS-Project ®

22 September 2017

6 PMO productivity pointers for Microsoft® SharePoint® Team sites: Libraries

6 PMO productivity pointers for Microsoft® SharePoint® Team sites: Registers

Buses, trains and schedule optimisation

PMOs perfectly positioned to help make project products persistent

Project Planning Pointers

Strategies for social CPD – Creating a PM community

How to write a ‘Good’ lesson learned?

28 October 2016

Adding Value

Business Analysis – a skillset for the Strategic PMO?

A Project Prayer

What has the PMO ever done for us?

Spontaneous teamwork – the best kind?

When the Project Sponsor is just too important to be effective

How to keep your programme schedule on the right track

13 December 2015

How to create a useful programme schedule

13 December 2015

When the Client wants to Pull the Plug

13 December 2015

What does your PMO stand for?

13 December 2015

Processes are an organisation’s memory

13 December 2015

How to make sure that Lessons Learned stay that way

13 December 2015

Project reporting shouldn’t be “green side up”

12 December 2015

Watch out for watermelons in project reports

12 December 2015

Project data in, portfolio insight out

4 December 2015

How to create a streamlined project management methodology

2 December 2015

How to take charge of your project portfolio’s annual budget

2 December 2015

How PMOs improve project governance

2 December 2015