By Hannah Roden
PMO Learning is back at the largest PMO classroom on the 8th June in London, and the 14th June in Edinburgh! This one-day learning event is curated for you, the PMO practitioner, focusing on the key challenge areas for PMOs today, including a blend of large-scale classroom learning; workshops; exercises and quizzes. This year we’ll …
By Hannah Roden
Our next installment in our Meet the Trainers series is Michelle Rowland, trainer of Essentials for PMO Administrators, Essentials for PMO Analysts, P3O® Foundation and Practitioner and MoP® Foundation and Practitioner. Can you briefly introduce yourself? I’m Michelle, I have been training for around 18 years. I was Head of PMO prior to that, as …
By Lindsay Scott
I’m currently working in a PMO, supporting a large programme. I’d like to move into a portfolio PMO in the next few years and want advice on what I should be doing to make this a reality. The link between an organisation’s strategy and how that strategy is delivered is commonly referred to as portfolio …
By Hannah Roden
Here at PMO Learning, we want to showcase our fantastic trainers. We’re starting off a new series where we interview our trainers so you can find out a bit more about them, the courses they deliver, and get a feel for their PMO experience and personality. First up, we have Holger Heuss. Can you briefly …
By Hannah Roden
Since the beginning of the pandemic, online exams have become increasingly popular amongst certification bodies, with some such as PeopleCert moving exclusively to online proctored exams. This can be beneficial for delegates; they are able to sit their relevant exam from the comfort of their own home or office, are able to schedule their exam …
By Lindsay Scott
I had this question the other day, “what is the role of the programme support officer in a project?” I had to ask for clarification because I wasn’t sure if this was a case of just getting a role title mixed up or a genuine case of what elements of a project would a programme …
By Lindsay Scott
Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Offices (and the many variations on a theme) have become much more popular in recent years, in fact I would say it is one of the fasting growing areas of project management. The interesting thing about PMOs is the sheer diversity of the roles that exist within it. In project …
By Hannah Roden
If you’ve been following the news recently, you may have heard of ‘The Great Resignation’. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2021 out of 68.9 million separations in 2021, 47.4 million jobs were left voluntarily. It appears that following the coronavirus pandemic, employees are re-evaluating their requirements in the wake of a …
By Hannah Roden
Join us on the 22nd April, 12pm BST where we’ll be taking a closer look at the P3O® Practitioner certification – the second and final qualification of the P3O suite. The taster session will give you an insight to the course content, provide some more information aboout the P3O® Practitioner exam, our virtual classroom, our …
By Hannah Roden
On the 22nd March we hosted the next installment in our taster session series – this time taking a look at the Essentials for PMO Administrators certification. We heard from PMO Learning Director Eileen J Roden to provide you an insight into the Essentials for PMO Administrators certification, our training style, the interactive tools we …
By Lindsay Scott
One of the main tasks of a good PMO professional or PMO Administrator is being the central point of contact – or “go-to” person for everything that’s happening in and around the project. For a project manager, they become the indispensable, trustworthy, right-hand man and significant other in a tightly bonded relationship. That’s also why …
By Lindsay Scott
Becoming a Project Administrator if you are currently working as a PA (Personal Assistant) is not as big a leap as you might think. Essentially a project administrator is someone who is highly organised, knows their way around a PC, works well with managers and teams and ultimately gets any administrative stuff done on a …
By Lindsay Scott
Working in project management has become an increasingly popular career choice and if you’re looking for a first step into project management there are a number of entry-level roles. The entry-level positions for PMO are often called Project Administrator, Project Co-ordinator, Project Support or anything of these with PMO instead of project. It got me …
By Lindsay Scott
When you’re looking for a new role in PMO, we never start with the thinking that we’re looking for an average job, something that will do. It’s about putting our best selves forward so we can find and secure a great PMO job. In the last article – Where to Start in Finding a Great …
By Hannah Roden
PMO Learning are excited to be back at PMO Conference 2022 – in both Edinburgh and London! We’ll be hosting PMO Learn for another year – a one-day learning event for you, the PMO practitioner, which focuses on the key challenge areas for PMOs today, with a blend of large-scale classroom learning; workshops; exercises and quizzes. …
By Hannah Roden
A PMO Analyst is someone who works within a PMO (Project, Programme or Portfolio Management Office) and is considered to be more experienced than a PMO Administrator. The roles have similarities – they are both supporting project management within an organisation and the PMO Analyst will have similar skill sets to the PMO Administrator however …
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