Personal Leadership for PMO Practitioners

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Personal Leadership is all about leadership for yourself. When we talk about leadership in project management – we’re nearly always talking about leading others – but we also have a responsibility to ourselves – both for our careers and in life. So when we think about personal leadership in relation to our career in PMO …

Successes in the PMO

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We’ve all heard that phrase ‘learning from failure’. Failure is not endorsed as such but more ‘if we do fail, the outcome is marginally better if we learn from that failure and make sure we don’t do it again.’ There is a flip side of course, successes. Do we still pay as much attention to …

Two Types of Project Co-ordinator

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Recently we’ve been chatting to job seekers looking to get into PMO and thinking about what development they need to be thinking about to help their chances of making that move. From the conversations it become clear pretty quickly that understanding the roles in PMO is the first step on the journey. In this article …

PMO Facilitating the Agile Retrospective

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We recently launched a new half-day course – The PMO’s Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives – first course coming up at the beginning of July. The course is designed for those PMO practitioners who are working more and more with Agile teams in project delivery and the retrospective part of the process is a perfect …

A Crazy Little Thing Called Change

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There’s lots of webinars been going on recently and here’s another for you to check out – coming up on Monday, 29th June 2020 at 6.30pm – 8.00pm UK time (1.30pm EDT / 7.30pm CET). It features PMO Learning’s Eileen Roden, hosted by the British Computer Society (BCS), talking about change management. Webinar – A …

Online Proctored Exams for PMO Certifications

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As the PMO world has settled into working from home, many PMO teams have turned their eye towards online training. There’s a whole raft of reasons why now is the time to take up some PMO training, especially if you’ve been furloughed and there are some great PMO courses available, no matter what skills you’re …

Furloughed PMOs

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Ever since the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was announced by the UK Government in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and as a result many employees had to come to terms with a new employment status – a furloughed worker. A great source of information has been the CIPD (the human resources professional body) and they …

Which Project Management Course to Do and When?

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We’ve recently partnered with Aspire Learning to bring popular portfolio, programme and project management (PPM) training courses with exams to PMO Learning. We know that PMO practitioners don’t just develop their PMO specific knowledge and skills – they also learn about the wider subjects in PPM. There’s a few on the marketplace to choose from …

Agile PMO Skills – Retrospectives

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The Lean-Agile PMO course from PMO Learning has been a really popular one over the last few years and as Agile approaches to project delivery become ever more prevalent, the PMO has been picking up new skills to support those projects. The Lean-Agile PMO course is a good one for getting to grips with understanding …