PMOSIG – Raising the PMO Bar
The latest conference from the PMOSIG has just been announced and it looks like 2011 will be the year of portfolio offices and Agile PMOs. If you’re not already familiar with the PMOSIG, this is the...
View ArticleThe People Challenges for the PMO
Next week on the 2nd June there is a free session from the PMOSIG taking place at the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank. The event is open to anyone interested in PMO and specifically in this...
View ArticlePMOSIG Finds a New Home at the APM
The PMOSIG - the independent specialist interest group focused on programme and project office has been around for 10 years and now they have just moved to become the Association for Project...
View ArticleRaw Deal for PMO Practitioners?
I think that PMO Practitioners are still getting a pretty raw deal when it comes to focus on their development. Project managers and programme managers have an abundance of books, training courses,...
View ArticlePMO Masterclasses
A couple of weeks ago in the West Midlands a posse of PMO professionals got together for a 2 day, well let’s call it a binge, of PMO-ness. The APM PMOSIG autumn conferences tend to be very...
View ArticleZen and the Art of PMO Optimisation
This week I went along to an APM Branch meeting to hear Lain Burgos-Lovece talking about PMOs. I’ve known Lain for a number of years through his work at the PMOSIG and it’s always good to hear people...
View ArticlePMO Assets
Yesterday it was the PMOSIG Spring Conference and the focus was my favourite subject – the people*. The whole day was about focusing on the people aspects of PMO – how we find them; develop them and...
View ArticleProject Management Doodles and Scribbles
If you are a project practitioner that often takes part in or leads workshops; requirements gathering exercises; group exercises or other sessions where the whiteboard and pens come out – are you often...
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