by Lindsay Scott | Sep 1, 2020 | P3O
At PMO Learning we’re always looking for ways to help PMO practitioners achieve the learning they want at the best possible price. Today we’ve launched the P3O® Foundation distance-learning course which is perfect for those PMO practitioners wanting to...
by Lindsay Scott | Aug 21, 2020 | Facilitation, PMO
There is a popular phrase that sums up project management, the four Ps – product, process, projects and of course people. It’s the four combined that makes effective project management. The people element is arguably the hardest to get right – managing teams;...
by Lindsay Scott | Aug 6, 2020 | Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
If you’re working in a PMO today, you’ll know that one of the hot topics right now is Agile. That’s how the PMO can support Agile delivery in the organisation; how the PMO can support overall business agility and it can also mean, how can the PMO...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 30, 2020 | Facilitation, PMO
There’s a bit in the P3O® guidance that states: To be successful, programme and projects require a shared understanding of their objectives, teamwork and effective decision-making. Programme and project decisions by their nature are contributed to by groups of...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 23, 2020 | CV, PMO
For many PMO practitioners right now there has been a need to make sure their training is up to date and they have something to put on their CV. That might sound harsh but when the employment market is in flux and jobs are under threat it tends to concentrate the mind...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 21, 2020 | PMO
There are three popular types of interviewing within project management and PMO: Traditional CV-based approach Competency-based interviews Scenario-based questioning Traditional Interviews The traditional approach concentrates on the skills and experiences you have...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 17, 2020 | PMO, P3O
It’s one of those PMOs that no-one ever seems to see these days – think, when was the last time you saw a Centre of Excellence type PMO in an organisation, or met anyone who said they worked in one? Back in the day they were a prominent feature of the PMO...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 14, 2020 | Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
The Lean-Agile PMO course from PMO Learning has been a popular course over the last few years and now it’s been refreshed to make sure it’s in line with all the changes we’ve seen over those two years. The PMO continues to support an hybrid portfolio...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 10, 2020 | Portfolio Management, PMO
In PMO Learning’s latest course – Unlocking Business Agility through Portfolio Management- there are a number of different theories to learn about across six different parts of the framework. The course focuses on theory first and then onto to practical...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 7, 2020 | Portfolio Management, PMO
The world of the PMO is constantly changing – one of the more recent additions to its services is Enterprise-wide Portfolio Management According to the most recent Gartner study (Gartner Magic Quadrant for PPM May 2019), by 2023, 80% of organisations will have an...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 30, 2020 | Leadership, PMO
Personal Leadership is all about leadership for yourself. When we talk about leadership in project management – we’re nearly always talking about leading others – but we also have a responsibility to ourselves – both for our careers and in...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 25, 2020 | PMO
We’ve all heard that phrase ‘learning from failure’. Failure is not endorsed as such but more ‘if we do fail, the outcome is marginally better if we learn from that failure and make sure we don’t do it again.’ There is a flip side...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 23, 2020 | Agile, PMO
Recently we’ve been chatting to job seekers looking to get into PMO and thinking about what development they need to be thinking about to help their chances of making that move. From the conversations it become clear pretty quickly that understanding the roles...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 18, 2020 | Agile, Facilitation, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
We recently launched a new half-day course – The PMO’s Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives – first course coming up at the beginning of July. The course is designed for those PMO practitioners who are working more and more with Agile teams in...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 16, 2020 | Webinar
There’s lots of webinars been going on recently and here’s another for you to check out – coming up on Monday, 29th June 2020 at 6.30pm – 8.00pm UK time (1.30pm EDT / 7.30pm CET). It features PMO Learning’s Eileen Roden, hosted by the...
by Melissa Roden | Jun 11, 2020 | Virtual Classroom, P3O, PMO
As the PMO world has settled into working from home, many PMO teams have turned their eye towards online training. There’s a whole raft of reasons why now is the time to take up some PMO training, especially if you’ve been furloughed and there are some great PMO...
