By Jennifer Bailey
Timely and efficient assurance is now widely recognised as a crucial factor in project success. Conducting appropriate reviews at the right time can steer a project in the right direction or prompt intervention if deviations occur. Assurance extends beyond mere reviews, encompassing all activities within and surrounding a project to guarantee effective risk management and …
By Jennifer Bailey
As the clock ticks down to midnight, the world bids farewell to the old and welcomes a new year full of hope and possibility. It’s the perfect time for individuals to reflect on achievements and set new goals personally and for your career. At PMO Learning, we’re excited to be your partners on this journey …
By Jennifer Bailey
A PMO plays a pivotal role in ensuring that an organisation’s objectives are met efficiently and effectively in projects. A PMO provides a variety of crucial and important elements including standardisation and consistency across project management practices, to ensure that all projects across an organisation have a higher chance of success. A PMO also aids …
By Jennifer Bailey
What is In-House training? In-house training is for organisations that have 6 or more delegates who want to take the same PMO course. At PMO Learning, we can bring any of our certification or specialist courses in-house for your team or entire organisation, either virtually or at your location. We also provide bespoke and customised …
By Jennifer Bailey
We have been hosting training courses for over 6 years now and since COVID, virtual training courses have become the new normal, bringing the classroom to our homes, offices, and well any place with a Wi-Fi connection. We have noticed a few differences between in-person classroom courses and virtual courses and thought in this blog …
By Jennifer Bailey
Every PMO will have areas that they want to improve on, as a training company we provide training courses on specific areas that a lot of PMO practitioners may struggle with or need more knowledge to make a difference in their PMOs. We are also always looking to be innovative and get ahead of the …
By Jennifer Bailey
You’re ready to embark on some PMO training. All you need to do now is get the agreement from your manager and you’re ready to go. Sometimes we all need a little help trying to influence and negotiate ourselves through a challenge like this. How can I get the time away from the office? How …
By Hannah Roden
I recently read a chapter of Things Your PMO is Doing Wrong by Michael Hatfield, specifically the chapter entitled Training and Certification. As part of a training company, this naturally gave me a lot to consider about how our customers can get the most out of their training. Initially, I would like to take a look …
By Lindsay Scott
For many PMO practitioners right now there has been a need to make sure their training is up to date and they have something to put on their CV. That might sound harsh but when the employment market is in flux and jobs are under threat it tends to concentrate the mind a bit. In …
By Lindsay Scott
The role of the PMO within organisations varies – for some it focuses on the project delivery level, for others, it is way above at the enterprise level and for everyone else, somewhere in between. It is this wide variation in the types and remits of PMOs that has made working within them such an …
By Melissa Roden
When you’re looking for PMO training, you are often spoilt for choice. There’s a massive and ever-growing range of PMOs qualifications available (we’re including all the project, programme and portfolio ones too!), so how do you know you’re choosing the right course? There are lots of things to consider, so here’s our handy guide on …
By Lindsay Scott
Which PMO certificate to do? That’s the question we get asked a lot here at PMO Learning. Often when people call, we take a little potted history – find out what people are doing in their PMO job today and what they’re looking to achieve with some additional training. You can [contact us] yourself to …
By Lindsay Scott
You’re working in a new PMO. Perhaps its a completely new PMO – or maybe one which has been refreshed. You’re the manager of the new PMO and some of your staff are also new. Some of them have been there a while. There are different levels of competency in your PMO team. Different attitudes …
By Lindsay Scott
Do you find that there is a lack of consistency around PMO terms? Different types of PMOs having different names for example. Or how about the different titles that people have? When Eileen and I started PMO Learning and looked at the different training options available and where the gaps might be – one …
By Lindsay Scott
PMO Learning are delighted to announce that we’ve just become BCS Accredited Training Providers. Apart from a great certificate to add to our office wall, we’re also now able to offer the PPSO certifications. There are two certifications from BCS which are aimed at those working in the PMO: Programme and Project Support Office Essentials …
By Lindsay Scott
The role people perform in the PMO can be multifaceted one and the foundation of all the skills that a PMO professional will come to possess over the course of their career is project management. In terms of initial training for PMO practitioners it is the understanding of project management which come first. Most people …
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