Top Five Skills for a Programme Co-ordinator

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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 combination of projects, programme and centre of excellence PMO functions. …

Taking the Top Position in PMO

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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 …

Five Skills Areas of a PMO Manager

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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 Office, a Programme …

The Drug Cabinet of PMO Services

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A modern PMO offers services to the business – services that help the organisation to ultimately choose the right programmes and projects to deliver and to deliver those programmes and projects well. Regardless of all the different types of PMOs that are out there – one thing is universally true about them – they’re all …