Resource Management and the PMO
Resource Management and the PMO
Resource management remains one of the most persistent challenges for PMOs and one of the most important capabilities for successful delivery. This practical two-day specialist course brings the House of PMO Resource Management Report 2025 to life, helping PMO professionals turn the ideas, models and findings from the report into meaningful action in their own organisations.
Using the Circle of Resource Management, delegates explore resource management through three connected lenses: Project, Resource and Portfolio. The course looks at how PMOs can improve visibility of work and utilisation, support better resource and capability conversations, and help leaders make clearer prioritisation decisions when capacity is constrained.
Through practical scenarios, peer discussion and action planning, delegates will explore what works in real PMO environments, not just in theory. The course also connects resource management to the skills, behaviours and judgement needed by PMO professionals when influence matters more than ownership.
Learning Approach:
Classroom & Virtual Classroom
Duration:
2 days
Virtual Course Timings:
9am to 4:30pm UK time each day
Price:
Pilot Price – £950 + VAT (includes pdf course materials)
Future Virtual Classroom Courses – £1175 + VAT (includes printed course materials)
House of PMO Individual and Corporate Members receive an exclusive discount. Log into your account to receive £250 off.
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This course is for PMO professionals involved in resource, capacity, capability or portfolio decision-making.
It is particularly relevant for PMO professionals who are expected to provide visibility, support prioritisation, manage resource conversations, or influence delivery decisions without necessarily owning the resources themselves.
Typical delegates include:
PMO Analysts who support resource reporting, project-level insight, data gathering and evidence packs.
PMO Managers who facilitate resource conversations, manage competing priorities and support delivery decision-making.
PMO Directors or senior PMO leaders who influence portfolio-level choices, governance, capability planning and executive decision-making.
There are no formal prerequisites for attending this course. To get the most from it, delegates will benefit from having some experience of PMO, project delivery, portfolio delivery or organisational resource challenges. The course is designed to be practical and discussion-led, so real-world experience — even messy experience, especially messy experience — will help delegates connect the learning to their own context.
Virtual classroom training takes place with a live instructor throughout the online course and you will be learning alongside other virtual learners – you’ll be able to see and hear them too!
All you need for virtual classroom training is a decent broadband connection, a webcam and a microphone [Test your setup here]
You’ll receive:
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- PMO Learning Delegate Workbook
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Resource Management and the PMO
Learning Approach: Virtual Classroom
Duration: 2 days
Virtual Course Timings: 9am to 4:30pm UK time each day
Price: Pilot Price – £950 + VAT
Course Objectives
The objectives of this course are to help delegates:
- Understand the resource management challenges commonly faced by PMOs and why they persist across projects, portfolios, teams and functions.
- Explore the Circle of Resource Management and how the Project, Resource and Portfolio lenses work together to support better delivery decisions.
- Examine how PMOs can improve visibility of resource demand, utilisation, allocation and conflict without creating unnecessary administration.
- Consider the role of the PMO in supporting capability insight, skills mapping, workforce planning and collaboration with HR and L&D.
- Understand how portfolio-level prioritisation, scenario thinking and trade-off conversations can help organisations make better decisions under constraint.
- Develop practical ways to apply resource management improvements in their own organisation, starting with small, credible actions that build trust and demonstrate PMO value.
In the Course
In the course, learners will cover four areas:
Module 1: Project Lens: Who’s Doing What?
The course begins by setting the context for resource management and introducing the House of PMO Resource Management Report 2025 and the Circle of Resource Management.
Delegates explore the Project Lens, where resource pressure often becomes visible first. This module focuses on understanding who is working on what, where capacity is stretched, and how PMOs can provide useful visibility without drifting into task-level micromanagement.
Module 2: Resource Lens: Do We Have the Right Skills?
The afternoon moves from availability to capability. Delegates explore how PMOs can help organisations move beyond simple headcount conversations and towards a better understanding of skills, capability, future demand and resource risk.
This module also considers the PMO’s role in enabling insight rather than owning everything. It looks at where collaboration is needed with HR, L&D, line managers and delivery leads, and what behaviours help the PMO influence effectively across organisational boundaries.
Module 3: Portfolio Lens: Are We Resourced for What Matters Most?
Day 2 lifts the conversation to portfolio level. Delegates explore how PMOs can support better prioritisation and decision-making when demand exceeds capacity — which, let’s be honest, is most Tuesdays in many organisations.
This module focuses on how the PMO can make constraints, choices and consequences visible. Delegates consider how portfolio-level insight helps leaders understand trade-offs, sequence work more realistically, and make decisions based on evidence rather than optimism, noise or whoever shouted loudest.
Module 4: Joining the Circle and Roles: Turning Insight into Action
The final module brings the three lenses together. Delegates explore how Project, Resource and Portfolio conversations interact in practice, and what happens when they become disconnected.
The focus is on practical application: diagnosing where the biggest pain points sit, understanding the PMO’s role at different levels, and identifying small, visible improvements that can be introduced back in the workplace.
After the Course
After the course, learners will be able to:
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- Explain the Circle of Resource Management and how the Project, Resource and Portfolio lenses contribute to effective resource management.
- Diagnose where resource management challenges are showing up in their own organisation and identify which lens may need attention first.
- Improve visibility of resource demand, allocation, utilisation and pressure using practical, proportionate approaches.
- Support fairer and more evidence-based resource conflict conversations.
- Distinguish between availability, capacity, capability and suitability when discussing resources.
- Contribute to skills mapping, capability planning and resource risk conversations.
- Work more effectively with HR, L&D, line managers and delivery stakeholders on shared resource and capability challenges.
- Support portfolio prioritisation by making constraints, trade-offs and consequences more visible.
- Prepare better options, scenarios and recommendations for decision-makers when demand exceeds capacity.
- Identify practical resource management improvements that are appropriate to their role, PMO maturity and organisational context.
- Create a realistic action plan for applying the course learning back in the workplace.
What Next?
f you’ve completed the Resource Management course, then there are a few ways you can continue your training.
If you want to look at other specialist courses then you can look at Assurance for PMO Professionals or Lean-Agile PMO.
If you want to look at certification courses we have the Essentials suite, P3O® certifications and Management of Portfolios®.
If you want something more specific or bespoke for your organisation, contact us today.