By Lindsay Scott
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 projects or even where it may ‘sit’ in …
By Lindsay Scott
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 role. Portfolio Directors, as a role within project management, has become increasingly common …
By Lindsay Scott
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 should be doing to make this a reality. Portfolio management is …
By Lindsay Scott
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 PMO has had to get educated, and quick. A …
By Eileen Roden
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 our successes and learnings from 2019 and pulling together …
By Melissa Roden
You’re great at what you do and that has put you in a position where you are either leading the PMO agenda for your business or heading up a team. Up to now, your success has been down to your PMO knowledge – but now that’s not enough, you know you are going to be …
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