This is an account of the winning entry in Project Data Analytics Community‘s Project Hack 23. Challenge Overview – Anticipating Assurance Challenges and Lessons in Major Projects The project management community struggles to exploit the thousands of lessons learned from projects across the profession. As a community we keep making the same mistakes time and…
View detailsThe competencies and capabilities necessary for PMO leaders to transform an enterprise PMO from a tactical overseer to a strategic partner encompass a broad range of strategic, interpersonal, and adaptive abilities – and extend far beyond traditional project management skills. Strategic Thinking PMO leaders must see the big picture and understand how change initiatives align…
View detailsIf PMO leaders want a seat at the strategic table, they need to establish themselves as trusted business partners. In this article, I asked if the PMO is its own worst enemy and highlighted that a significant proportion of PMOs state their purpose as process and governance, have no formal process around assessing value and…
View detailsArmed with an arsenal of KPIs, a PMO leader confidently presents the executive board with a sea of green indicators, all provided by the latest AI-enabled project portfolio management software. This PMO leader is confident their team is doing a great job keeping project delivery on track. Yet stakeholders are disengaged, innovation has stagnated, and…
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The recently released 2024 PMO Research Report from The PMO Squad emphasises in its introduction that organisations need talent, tools and capability to drive them forward with a faster rate of change. While not statistically significant, the research findings do raise some interesting questions about the current state of PMOs. Some of the key insights: Executives…
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“The PMO Lifecycle: Building, Running & Shutting Down” by William Dow, PMP is my go-to book when setting up or improving a PMO, and I keep it close to hand on my business bookshelf for easy reference. It’s definitely a how-to manual, packed with checklists, diagrams and review questions to embed your learning. You can…
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I often get asked what PMO stands for (especially by baffled members of my family!). Well the ‘P’ can stand for project, programme or portfolio, the ‘M’ stands for management, and the ‘O’ stands for office – or officeR – because let’s face it how can a person like me be an office? …so PMO…
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A bit about PMO Flashmob If you are a PMO professional working in or around London and you haven’t yet heard about PMO Flashmob, then you’re missing out. No really, you are. PMO Flashmob is a networking group for PMO people run by Lindsay Scott that has been around for long enough now that it has started forgetting how old it…
View detailsThis is the question that the panel set out to answer at the most recent meeting of the Project Data Analytics Meetup, hosted as usual by Martin Paver. I’d like to focus on a few key things that resonated with me during the evening…
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Back in the summer of 2019 I received an invitation from Americo Pinto, Chair of the PMO Global Alliance, to attend a one-off session he would be running in central London after the annual awards ceremony. It was pitched as an opportunity to provide feedback on the PMO Value Ring (PMO-CP) certification, and included the option to take…
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