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PMO Summer School

We love the idea of a PMO summer school! Traditionally summer schools are run by educational establishments when regular school hours are over for the summer. Learners often use them to ‘continue learning, explore new subjects, catch up on missed coursework, or gain additional academic credits’. They often have various programmes and sessions – some …

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Nine Signs of Great Facilitated Sessions for the PMO

Facilitation skills are something that every PMO practitioner should have – apart from it being a great service offering to the many meetings; workshops; reviews; retrospectives; premortems – and any other collaborative event you can think of – it’s also a great way to understand more about how the projects, programmes and portfolio are operating. …

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New Ideas for the PMO Supporting Meetings and Gatherings

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; resolving conflict; demonstrating leadership; managing performance; dealing with ‘resources’. The list goes …

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Facilitation – Workshop Techniques for the 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 people in meetings or workshops. However, the ineffective management of workshops can lead to wasted management …

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