by Lindsay Scott | Jul 17, 2020 | P3O, PMO
It’s one of those PMOs that no-one ever seems to see these days – think, when was the last time you saw a Centre of Excellence type PMO in an organisation, or met anyone who said they worked in one? Back in the day they were a prominent feature of the PMO...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 14, 2020 | Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
The Lean-Agile PMO course from PMO Learning has been a popular course over the last few years and now it’s been refreshed to make sure it’s in line with all the changes we’ve seen over those two years. The PMO continues to support an hybrid portfolio...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 10, 2020 | Portfolio Management, PMO
In PMO Learning’s latest course – Unlocking Business Agility through Portfolio Management- there are a number of different theories to learn about across six different parts of the framework. The course focuses on theory first and then onto to practical...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 7, 2020 | PMO, Portfolio Management
The world of the PMO is constantly changing – one of the more recent additions to its services is Enterprise-wide Portfolio Management According to the most recent Gartner study (Gartner Magic Quadrant for PPM May 2019), by 2023, 80% of organisations will have an...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 30, 2020 | Leadership, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 25, 2020 | PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 23, 2020 | Agile, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 18, 2020 | Agile, Facilitation, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 16, 2020 | Webinar
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...
by Melissa Roden | Jun 11, 2020 | P3O, Virtual Classroom, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 9, 2020 | PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 4, 2020 | PMO, PPM
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 –...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 2, 2020 | Agile, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | May 28, 2020 | CV
We’ve just launched a new distance-learning course for PMO practitioners who are looking to improve their CV and get those opportunities they want. It’s a two-week distance learning course which means over that time you’ll receive instructions on how...
by Lindsay Scott | May 26, 2020 | Managing Successful Programmes, P3O, PMO
We receive questions from learners every day so we thought why not share those with other learners and hopefully they can help you in your PMO career. “Hi, I am currently looking for new roles and a lot of the time they require some kind of PMO® or PRINCE2®...
by Lindsay Scott | May 21, 2020 | PMO
Eileen shared her “10 in 10” over on the PMO Flashmob weekly session #PMOwfh. During the pandemic, PMO Flashmob has been hosting weekly sessions on a Wednesday afternoon. With PMO practitioners taking part from all over the UK (and further afield)...
