by Melissa Roden | Dec 3, 2019 | Event, Benefits Management, PMO
How good is your organisation at Benefits Management? We think, definitely not as good as it could be. A few months ago, in October, Eileen gave a presentation on Benefits for All at the BCS Proms-G (Project Management Specialist Group). She introduced the Benefits...
by Lindsay Scott | Nov 28, 2019 | Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
It’s been a while since we first started looking into Agile and the impact of this mindset – delivery culture – framework – call it what you will and the impact on the PMO. It was back in 2014 when PMO Flashmob had it’s first session on...
by Melissa Roden | Nov 19, 2019 | PMO Essentials for PMO Administrators
A few weeks ago, I attended a PMO Learning course for the first time. Having spent a few months being introduced to PMOs from a training perspective, I knew there was a lot to learn – from the sheer number of acronyms, to the variety of services that PMOs can offer...
by Lindsay Scott | Nov 12, 2019 | Coaching, P3O, PMO Essentials for PMO Administrators, PMO
You want to be great at your job yes? No-one wants to be an average PMO practitioner so we’ve put together ten career tips to being a great PMO practitioner. 1. Keep up to date on the technical aspects of PPPM That’s project, programme and portfolio...
by Lindsay Scott | Nov 7, 2019 | Setting Up a PMO, PMO Essentials, PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Nov 5, 2019 | PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 31, 2019 | Setting Up a PMO, PMO
The Setting Up a PMO two-day course we piloted a few weeks back (you can check that out here) was a real eye-opener in lots of ways. Although I’ve been in and around PMOs for many years now, it’s almost like we forget the most simple of things, the...
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 29, 2019 | PMO
Your career is something that relies very much on the organisation you work for – or indeed the way you choose to work i.e. freelance, permanent, part-time. If you work for an organisation in a permanent role, chances are you may even have a development plan – formed...
by Melissa Roden | Oct 17, 2019 | Webinar, Portfolio Management, Event, PMO
At our latest Breakfast Briefing in Canary Wharf, Eileen Roden, Consulting Director of PMO Learning, spoke about The Evolving Role of the PMO and dove deep into Support vs Service PMOs – take a look at the video. From the humble beginnings of minute taking and...
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 15, 2019 | Setting Up a PMO, PMO
That’s the question that anyone who is just about to embark on setting up a PMO should be able to answer. It’s having a clear answer – or even several different answers from different people – that drives what kind of PMO is going to get set...
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 10, 2019 | Project Challenge, PMO
At Project Challenge last month we did a session on Getting Ahead in Your PMO Career. There’s so many different avenues to explore when it comes to thinking about your career in PMO. In this session we wanted to pick a few different areas to get people thinking....
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 8, 2019 | Setting Up a PMO, PMO
There’s a great analogy about PMOs that we can use to highlight the changes we’ve been seeing in how PMOs have been evolving. PMOs are moving from providing generic support to projects and programmes – what kind of support? Well, anything we want...
by Melissa Roden | Oct 3, 2019 | Project:Hack, PMO
PMO Learning is sponsoring the next Project:Hack event which is taking place on the 12th & 13th October (the weekend!) at the Microsoft Reactor in London. Project:Hack was created by Projecting Success to bring together project professionals and data scientists....
by Lindsay Scott | Oct 1, 2019 | Setting Up a PMO, PMO
In 2019 PMO Learning launched our brand new pilot course – Setting Up a Project Management Office. The course fills a gap in the PMO training market. The P3O course provides a high level on setting up a PMO but doesn’t go into details on what to do and how...
by Lindsay Scott | Sep 26, 2019 | PMO
Eileen Roden, Consulting Director at PMO Learning, presented a current view of ‘what PMOs do’ as their role becomes more accepted and established across industries and sectors and the skills required by those working in PMOs. We’re hoping the session inspires you and...
by Lindsay Scott | Sep 24, 2019 | PMO
A few months back we were asked to pull together some editorial about PMOs for a business supplement which goes out with the Sunday Telegraph. It’s the second time we’ve been asked because, I guess you could say, running a PMO training business alongside...
