by Eileen Roden | Jul 11, 2019 | PMO
September sees the launch of another new course for PMO Learning – Setting up a Project Management Office. The course is aimed at those people who are helping their organisations, or their department take their first tentative steps in formalising Project...
by Melissa Roden | Jun 25, 2019 | PMO, Benefits Management
Our Understanding Benefits Management course started as an in-house course. After great success, it was trialled as an open public course at this year’s PMO Conference. Eileen and a group of 9 delegates undertook the one day course, exploring how Benefits...
by Lindsay Scott | May 29, 2019 | PMO
Just last week, Eileen presented to an audience of project management and PMO practitioners at a conference in Slovenia. The session theme was all about how we continue to develop as individuals working in a changing project management landscape. Within the session,...
by Lindsay Scott | May 3, 2019 | PMO, PMO Essentials, PMO Essentials for PMO Administrators, P3O
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Apr 9, 2019 | PMO, PMO Essentials, P3O, Lean-Agile PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Apr 2, 2019 | PMO
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...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 27, 2019 | P3O
The Portfolio, Programme and Project Office (P3O®) course is designed to provide the knowledge and understanding you need to work within a P3O®. When you are looking to either get into PMO work or get better at the work you already do as a PMO practitioner; the P3O®...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 26, 2019 | Facilitation
Relative Prioritising and Sizing That’s the great thing about a lot of the facilitation models, techniques and approaches – they’re simple to make it easier for people to get the concept quickly and then work on the real job at hand –...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 21, 2019 | Facilitation
How many meetings do you attend in a year? How about workshops? Lessons learned? Training courses? Projects are all about people collaborating to get stuff done and done well. The PMO is there to help people get stuff done and to help them do it well. One of the main...
by Lindsay Scott | Feb 18, 2019 | P3O
Hands up if you love Appendix F in the P3O® manual? If you’ve just read that line and you’re thinking what the heck, settle back in your chair, let me put a virtual arm around your shoulders and bring you in on one of the worse kept secrets about PMO and...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 31, 2019 | PMO
We’re delighted to be able to sponsor the latest Project:Hack from the team behind the fast growing Project Data Analytics Meetup. If you’re not already familiar with the group that has been taking London by storm during 2018 with brilliant presentation...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 29, 2019 | PMO
Last week we had a couple of sessions out and about – one being our own Breakfast Briefing and another at the BCS. The subject of course being PMO. And the title of this article pretty much sums it up – one of the simplest things about PMO is what do those...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 24, 2019 | PMO
PMO Learning’s Eileen Roden presented a session at the British Computer Society (BCS) The Chartered Institute of IT’s offices in Covent Garden, London. The BCS PROMS-G event is the meetup for project management practitioners working in IT [ you can take a...
by Lindsay Scott | Jan 16, 2019 | PMO, Coaching
Think for a moment of all the challenge areas where you regularly get involved as a PMO practitioner. Creating reports for different sets of stakeholders; assigning resources; co-ordinating team communications; tracking dependencies; defining standards; devising a...
by Lindsay Scott | Dec 7, 2018 | PMO
Join us for an event held at the British Computer Society in London on the 23rd January. Eileen will be taking to the stage to talk about effective PMOs. Accountability for successful project and programme delivery sits fairly and squarely on the shoulders of the...
by Lindsay Scott | Nov 28, 2018 | Coaching, PMO
Coaching and mentoring – we see those words often on a job advertisement for the PMO, an essential skillset frequently asked for. Yet how many PMO practitioners are providing both the coaching and the mentoring? Often the words are thrown together but they are...
