Why PMO Leaders Need the Right Rooms to Lead Better
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills When independence becomes a ceiling One of the reasons PMO and transformation leaders get as far as they do is that they know how to walk into a mess and figure it out. You pick up the marker, organize the chaos, find the dependencies, and keep the work moving. That […]
How PMO Leaders Think Like Business Owners and Drive More Value
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen A few years ago, I was at a PMI event listening to PMO leaders compare the size of the portfolios they managed. One person said $50 million. Someone else said $100 million. Then $500 million. Eventually, someone said their portfolio was in the billions. Those numbers represented enormous responsibility, but I said something […]
Practical Strategy Execution: How PMOs Keep Work Moving with Paul Thompson
PMI Talent Triangle: Business Acumen A strategy can be perfectly clear in the executive meeting and still become painfully difficult to deliver once it reaches the people doing the work. That gap is familiar to PMO and transformation leaders. You are handed the priority and expected to make it real, but the portfolio view you have does […]
Why PMO Service Adoption Fails After a Successful Launch
PMI Talent Triangle: Power Skills Why PMO Service Adoption Fails After a Successful Launch Your launch meeting was full. Training completion is high. The templates are on SharePoint. Yet an executive still bypasses the prioritization process, a project owner finds the old intake form, and the governance meeting ends without the decision it was designed to produce. […]