How to Set Up a PMO – Part 3 of 3
Aligning with What Matters Driving change across an enterprise starts with alignment with what matters. To align with what matters means to bring it back to the beginning and really master both the art and science of eastablishing a PMO. This starts with finding the right people, and then having the right people, doing the […]
How to Set Up a PMO – Part 2 of 3
The People of the PMO Building, transforming, rescuing, and running PMOs requires a constant focus on developing and leading the right talent. For more than 20 years, I was in the role of a hiring manager and in that time, I had thousands of resumes come across my desk and conducted countless interviews. I found […]
How to Set Up a PMO – Part 1 of 3
The Science of PMO Awesome! Since you have landed here, it is a pretty safe guess that you have been charged with building or running a PMO for your organization. You’ve probably even got the tools and templates coming out of your ears, maybe you even know about the best practices. That will definitely get […]
PMO SWOT Analysis
As people starting watching the How to Rescue the PMO masterclass we announced last week, we received some excellent feedback! Many folks told us that they know that they need to rescue the PMO or get it back on track quickly and the quick tips helped them to take some steps forward FAST. Others reached […]
Unleashing the Power of Project Management
Unleashing the Power of Project Management In most every community, around the globe, there are those that need help and fortunately, in many of those communities, there are those willing to help. Whether it is housing our homeless veterans, ensuring that the abused have a haven, helping to make clean drinking water a reality for […]
Lessons Learned as a PMO Leader
Guest Post: Carolyn B. Smith About the author: Carolyn Smith has over 20 years of experience managing and leading PMO offices – ranging from large, cross-organizational, multi-year projects to IT Program Offices. She has overseen the delivery of hundreds of projects and has repeated successes in building PMO organizations and transforming processes to accelerate delivery […]
Top 5 Resources of 2018
It’s always fascinating to go back through the numbers and data and determine where the biggest IMPACT was made for our IMPACT by Laura audience and students. In fact, its something the IMPACT method teaches to do in your PMO every 90 days too! This is especially true when approaching a benchmark such as the new […]
Season’s Readings: Year in Review
Are you spending the holidays traveling, snoring through family gatherings, or even tossing and turning on a mattress that isn’t your own? Well, boredom and monkey-mind be banished! Put your time to good use by catching up on what you might have missed in 2018, learn new ways to drive IMPACT in your PMO and […]
Is There a Missing PMO Profession?
A group of PMO professionals and I have come together to form what we are calling, the PMO Council and we need your opinion. You see, we have a project management profession, best practices and a lot of really smart people. We even have a number of PMO related communities, associations, networks, social sites, and […]
IMPACT Insights: PMO Types
Welcome you to another Impact Insight. Today we’re going to talk about the importance of avoiding a type when you’re setting up your PMO or trying to determine your services and how you might need to evolve to support the changing business needs. Here’s the thing, there are a couple different ways to look at […]