by Holger Heuss | Mar 9, 2020 | Portfolio Management
In our last blog, we reflected on the fact that within the next four years, most organisations will have an Enterprise-wide PMO, supporting strategy definition to strategy execution, focusing on choosing the right investments. Enterprise-wide Portfolio management was...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 6, 2020 | Webinar, PMO
Missed the session? Take a look at the short course for writing a great PMO CV [Just £25] It’s a new webinar from PMO Learning coming up later in the month and this time we’re getting practical all-around your CV. There are a couple of reasons why a PMO...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 4, 2020 | PMO, P3O
You’ll often hear PMO practitioners referring to the functions and services of a PMO. The terms have really stuck after the introduction of the P3O® guidance – Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices – from AXELOS. You’ve probably also heard...
by Eileen Roden | Feb 27, 2020 | PMO Essentials, PMO
Whose job is it anyway? When I got my first role in a PMO, I realised I’d found part of the organisation that I was happy to spend the rest of my career in. Back in those days, I had done the reverse step of most people in the PMO – I had been a Project Manager first...
by Melissa Roden | Feb 25, 2020 | Map
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by Lindsay Scott | Feb 25, 2020 | PMO
When someone says ‘Continuing Professional Development’ to you, what’s your first reaction? Are you thinking of training courses? Collecting points to maintain a professional membership? How about ‘lifelong learning’? In our latest...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 19, 2020 | PMO Essentials, PMO
Before we can hope to highlight the five top skill areas for a PMO Manager we have to define what kind of PMO it is. We have to take into account that there are many different variations of PMOs in existence. At the top-level, we can call the PMO – a Project...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 13, 2020 | Setting Up a PMO, P3O, PMO Essentials
The Portfolio, Programme and Project Office (P3O®) has long been the go-to certification training for PMO practitioners. It came into the marketplace back in 2008 and back then it was a much-welcomed addition to the training options available for PMO practitioners....
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 11, 2020 | PMO Essentials for PMO Administrators, PMO
The Project Co-ordinator role within project management is an interesting one because it can mean two slightly different roles. The first type of Project Co-ordinator role is one where they are supporting a project and a project manager, much like a project support...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 6, 2020 | Agile, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
One thing we’ve learnt since 2016 is that the PMO definitely have a part to play in the organisation’s move to incorporate Agile as a sustainable way to deliver projects. Back in 2016, the year we started learning more at PMO Flashmob, the questions being raised...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 4, 2020 | Webinar, PMO
What does Continuing Professional Development (CPD) mean? Here’s the official line from the CPD Standards Office: Continuing professional development (CPD) is the intentional maintenance and development of the knowledge and skills needed to perform in a...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 30, 2020 | PMO
It’s a common problem – what to call a PMO? We may call our PMO a ‘PMO’ when speaking to someone outside of our organisation, yet internally it’s called something entirely different. The name is often chosen to reflect what the organisation does, or how it delivers...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 23, 2020 | PMO, Portfolio Management
Portfolio management – the way an organisation knows which programmes and projects they should be delivering in order to meet their strategic goals for the business. And for that to happen there has to be someone accountable. Step forward the Portfolio Director...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 21, 2020 | Portfolio Management, PMO
There’s something happening in PMO with increasing frequency. I’m getting asked questions like this one: I’m currently working in a PMO, supporting a large programme. I’d like to move into a portfolio PMO in the next few years and want advice on what I...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 15, 2020 | Coaching, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
Over the last two years our Lean-Agile PMO course has proved to be a very popular course – there are no surprises there, shifting to an agile mindset and working with more development teams who are running their projects based on Agile principles has meant the...
by Eileen Roden | Jan 10, 2020 | PMO
It’s become an annual event – taking the first week of the year to regroup, re-energise and refocus. Last year was the beautiful Northumberland coast and this year has been a week in the windswept and equally beautiful Anglesey coast. We’ve spent the week looking at...
