by Lindsay Scott | Jun 9, 2020 | PMO
Ever since the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced by the UK Government in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and as a result many employees had to come to terms with a new employment status – a furloughed worker. A great source of information has been...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 4, 2020 | PPM, PMO
We’ve recently partnered with Aspire Learning to bring popular portfolio, programme and project management (PPM) training courses with exams to PMO Learning. We know that PMO practitioners don’t just develop their PMO specific knowledge and skills –...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 2, 2020 | Agile, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
The Lean-Agile PMO course from PMO Learning has been a really popular one over the last few years and as Agile approaches to project delivery become ever more prevalent, the PMO has been picking up new skills to support those projects. The Lean-Agile PMO course is a...
by Lindsay Scott | May 28, 2020 | CV
We’ve just launched a new distance-learning course for PMO practitioners who are looking to improve their CV and get those opportunities they want. It’s a two-week distance learning course which means over that time you’ll receive instructions on how...
by Lindsay Scott | May 26, 2020 | PMO, P3O, Managing Successful Programmes
We receive questions from learners every day so we thought why not share those with other learners and hopefully they can help you in your PMO career. “Hi, I am currently looking for new roles and a lot of the time they require some kind of PMO® or PRINCE2®...
by Lindsay Scott | May 21, 2020 | PMO
Eileen shared her “10 in 10” over on the PMO Flashmob weekly session #PMOwfh. During the pandemic, PMO Flashmob has been hosting weekly sessions on a Wednesday afternoon. With PMO practitioners taking part from all over the UK (and further afield)...
by Lindsay Scott | May 19, 2020 | Setting Up a PMO
Did you know that the most common type of PMO is a PMO of one? That’s right, a PMO that just has one person working within it – someone who provides a limited set of services because there is only one person to do the work. That’s closely followed by...
by Lindsay Scott | May 14, 2020 | PPM
PMO Learning, of course, focuses on PMO training and development yet we know that a foundation of learning and development in project, programme and portfolio management (PPM) is also something a PMO practitioner focuses on. We’ve recently gone into partnership...
by Lindsay Scott | May 12, 2020 | P3O
How good is your P3O knowledge? We’ve created a quick quiz – based on real questions you would expect to find in the P3O Foundation exam based on the three-day Foundation course. It’s a great way to get some insights into the types of topics covered...
by Lindsay Scott | May 5, 2020 | Virtual Classroom, PMO
Cultivating a learning culture is not just a catch phrase or a luxury in these times. It is a way to protect your organization and its people. Courage matters as much as competence when, as we are all doing now, we have to take work virtual and we need to keep...
by Lindsay Scott | Apr 30, 2020 | P3O, PMO
P3O® – Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices – is the certification based course for PMO professionals. Over the course of three days, you’ll be learning about the different types of PMO; why organisations have them; what services they offer and...
by Lindsay Scott | Apr 21, 2020 | PMO
We’ve been busy gearing up to run our PMO courses virtually in May and over the last few weeks, it has been fascinating talking to PMO practitioners about learning online. For many, online learning is either watching webinar sessions or doing some self-paced...
by Lindsay Scott | Apr 16, 2020 | Virtual Classroom, PMO
Over on PMO Flashmob, there’s a new weekly catchup virtual session happening on a Wednesday afternoon. In each session, there’s plenty of chat and sharing of ideas and insights across a variety of topics [you can check it out here] With COVID-19 still...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 31, 2020 | CV, PMO
If you’re looking for some practical ideas and insights into improving your PMO CV you’ve come to the right place. In this short course, we take a look at the steps you can be taking to creating a great PMO CV. It’s not just a case of writing down...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 20, 2020 | PMO
We recently contributed to a piece for Arras People – the project management recruitment specialists – about staying active when in isolation. At the moment it’s too early for people to be thinking about how they’ll be working from home for the...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 10, 2020 | P3O, PMO Essentials, PMO
When we talk about the Programme Office or Programme Management Office, we’re talking about a PMO function that supports a programme. It might seem obvious to state this but actually, some organisations can and do use the term to mean other things – like a...
