The 6 Themes Of Portfolio Management

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In our last blog, we reflected on the fact that within the next four years, most organisations will have an Enterprise-wide PMO, supporting strategy definition to strategy execution, focusing on choosing the right investments. Enterprise-wide Portfolio management was defined as an ecosystem, containing an integrated set of strategic processes and arrangements that together enable the …

Top Five Skill Areas for a Project Co-ordinator

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The Project Co-ordinator role within project management is an interesting one because it can mean two slightly different roles. The first type of Project Co-ordinator role is one where they are supporting a project and a project manager, much like a project support officer. The other type of Project Co-ordinator is something much more like …

The Very Definition of PMO

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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 fundamentals, if you like, when it …

Emerging Roles in PMO

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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 PMO Flashmob and the anuual PMO Conference, we might have something …