By Lindsay Scott
According to the PMO Competency Framework, the assurance service and associated activities from the PMO is all about: Providing confidence to the executive, sponsor and stakeholders that the project, programme and/or portfolio remains under control, on track to deliver and aligned with the organisations’ strategic objectives The PMO Competency Framework is one of the …
By Lindsay Scott
At PMO Learning, we run specialist courses alongside the certification-based ones (such as the Essentials, P3O, and MoP for example). These are the courses where we go deep into the areas where PMO practitioners spend a lot of their time – and they also tend to be the most challenging areas. Assurance is one of …
By Jennifer Bailey
These past couple of weeks we have been focusing on Assurance! Effective and timely assurance is increasingly seen as critical to the success of projects. Carrying out the right reviews at the right time can help keep a project on course – or get it stopped if it’s going wrong! But assurance is much more …
By Roy Millard
Provision of good assurance within and around projects is a complex business. In anything other than a small organisation, one that does projects is likely to have at least a few assurance providers and people who want assurance. Large project organisations, and individual large projects, may have project assurance landscapes containing many tens, or even …
By Hannah Roden
Project assurance often features in a PMO practitioner’s job profile – often it’s alongside governance, control, reviews or audits. If you’re not sure what project assurance is all about, take a quick dip into this article on Project Assurance and the PMO. There are also different tasks and activities associated with project assurance, depending on …
By Hannah Roden
Let’s assume you know nothing about Assurance. For many PMO professionals, we often struggle to fully understand what assurance actually is, what it looks like within the context of the PMO and the projects it supports, how to recognise when it is being done properly and even who needs it! What is Assurance? Simply put, …
By Hannah Roden
Last week, our brand new course, Assurance for the PMO Professional launched. On the 11th November, 4pm GMT, you’re invited to join us for a webinar with the course producer and trainer, Roy Millard, and PMO Learning director, Eileen J Roden. The webinar will elaborate on the role PMO play in Assurance and how the …
By Hannah Roden
At PMO Learning, we’re excited to introduce our brand new course – Assurance for PMO Professionals! What is the course about? Effective and timely assurance is increasingly seen as critical to the success of projects. Carrying out the right reviews at the right time can help keep a project on course – or get it …
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