By Jennifer Bailey
Identifying problems within your team or business isn’t always easy and the problem may not be obvious from the start. It isn’t uncommon in businesses that problems go unnoticed until it’s been around for a while or starts to cause severe damage. At that point, you and your colleagues may find yourselves scrambling to find …
By Jennifer Bailey
In the course Continuous Improvement for the PMO – Using Value Streams, PMO leaders need to consider how their PMO operates, its goals, and its OKRs. The course also encourages PMOs to ask how efficient their project delivery methodology is. Beyond lessons learned, this course offers a framework for creating PMO value. If your goal …
By Jennifer Bailey
What is learning to learn? We discuss the term ‘learn’ as a skill in the Essentials courses, but what does this mean? The definition of ‘learn’ taken from the PMO Competency Framework is ‘the ability to gain knowledge by study, instruction, or experience’. The world is constantly changing at a fast pace, so it’s important …
By Jennifer Bailey
We are excited to announce on the 23rd of May we are launching the certified Project, Programme and Portfolio Governance Professional course. We will be hosting an online webinar with Eileen who will take us through the all the details about what this course is about and why you should join us on our first …
By Jennifer Bailey
Happy International PMO Day! It has been a great day here at PMO Learning so far and we have enjoyed seeing everyone’s stories, videos, and webinars on LinkedIn and had a small party this afternoon with a variety of cakes! As a company, we are so passionate about PMO and we are thrilled there is …
By Jennifer Bailey
We are back with another PMO course deep-dive and this week we are focusing on the Essentials for PMO Administrators. This blog will cover one topic and slide used in the course to give you a further understanding of the type of content covered in the training. If you missed our previous deep-dive blogs, make …
By Jennifer Bailey
PMO practitioners have chosen MoP® because they’re working at a portfolio level – within a Portfolio Management Office or an Enterprise PMO (ePMO). In this type of role, it is important to understand how portfolio management determines which projects and programmes an organisation decides to do and when. There’s long been a saying that portfolio …
By Jennifer Bailey
If you haven’t already heard International PMO Day will be celebrated on the 9th of May. International PMO Day is all about recognising, highlighting, promoting, appreciating, and celebrating PMOs in organisations today. PMO can mean different things to different people and organisations so we want to share what PMO Learning means when we say PMO. …
By Jennifer Bailey
In this series of blogs, we are taking a deep dive into our courses and giving you a taste of the course materials that we use by selecting one area of the training course syllabus. The Essentials for PMO Managers course launched last year from the House of PMO has quickly become popular. It is …
By Jennifer Bailey
This week we are focusing on PMO Managers, and we are taking a look at the key skills they need to perform their role effectively. These skills are outlined in the Competency Framework and highlighted in the Essentials for PMO Managers course. The purpose of the PMO Manager role is to set up, run, transform, …
By Jennifer Bailey
Last Friday we met with Lindsay for another webinar to discuss the topic of Ten Ways to Use Your PMO Training to get a New Job! Lindsay started off by discussing what PMO Learning is and what courses we have to offer such as P3O®, Essentials qualifications and specialist courses such as Lean-Agile PMO and …
By Jennifer Bailey
Last year the House of PMO launched the third instalment of the Essentials qualifications with the Essentials for PMO Managers course. The course is aimed at current PMO Managers or leads or those new and moving into the role such as PMO Analysts. The aim of the course is to give those who take it …
By Jennifer Bailey
This week we are focusing on the P3O® Foundation. P3O® is still a popular course for those committed to working in a PMO – that’s Project Office, Programme Office, and Portfolio Office – the three types of PMO that make the 3 in the P3O® title. This course is aimed at those new to PMO – …
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 Jennifer Bailey
These past couple of weeks we have been focusing on PMO Managers! One of the main purposes of the PMO Manager is to set up, run, transform, and close an office that supports P3M delivery and capability. There are also a lot of key responsibilities of a PMO Manager, which are outlined in the Essentials …
By Jennifer Bailey
On the 9th and 30th of January we hosted the PMO CV Webinar! The session was so popular we decided to run it twice! Lindsay talked us through where to start when creating a CV, the different routes you can go down such as mind-mapping, journaling and questions! Lindsay also highlighted that questions and prompts …
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