Join us for the highlights webinar where we take a look back to the previous week of the PMO Conference.
In this one hour session we'll share the insights from the different sessions - our key takeaways.
Join us as we hear from other conference attendees and what they took away - plus the practical elements they'll be using in their own PMOs.
In this session, Gary shares his experiences and insights from his career – attendees should look at a recent article from Gary - 5 Key Items to being a Successful PMO Lead. Gary talks about performing an initial assessment when commencing work on a new opportunity within an existing and underperforming PMO.
The article forms the foundation for this session today on PMO models and resourcing, the options available in PMO structure and how these can be resourced. Gary draws on his personal experiences of working in a number of different models and ways of resourcing and shares his practical insights.
Gary also looks at the Agile scaled delivery models and the continued movement towards a strategic PMO. With different options available to meet business demands and differing business cultures, attendees will leave the session with a broader understanding of why specific models are chosen and what the PMO can be doing to ensure it is flexible and adaptable in its capability to provide the services required.
The PMO Director role is often misunderstood – or not even present in many organisations committed to delivering change through portfolios, programmes, and projects.
We’re delighted to have Mitch Rollings join us for this session. Mitch is an experienced PMO Director with over 20 years in the role of PMO Director and Head of PPM. He currently works for Westpac, the leading Australian bank and has previously worked for Vodafone, AWE, Atkins and British Gas, to name a few.
We will find out more about the PMO Director role – its purpose and the key accountabilities. Mitch will share insights from his own experiences, getting into the structure of the role; the context he’s working in; the relationships with executives; some of the challenges he has faced in the position and his thoughts on the real difference a PMO can make to an organisation.
Mitch has some great stories to share and he’ll be giving us his insights from the first 100 days in the role.
This session will certainly give you much food for thought plus you’ll be guaranteed to take away lots of gold nuggets of actionable insights.
There are two things that PMOs seem to struggle with today - the first, about the value they are adding to their organisations and their role in providing governance-related services.
In this session, we bring the two together and provide much food for thought with something called business integrated governance.
Do you run an effective PMO, yet feel that you can offer so much more to the running of your business? Are you fed up with trying to upsell the service you provide from an effectiveness and efficiency viewpoint – because the business just doesn’t buy it?
Perhaps you’re taking the wrong approach?
Our lodger Nicole Reilly is sitting comfortably in the Tool Shed and ready to open the doors to a virtual session all about the Microsoft Power Platform.
We've had lots of requests to do a session on PowerBI, Power Automate and Power Apps - but where to start?!
In this session we are joined by Adrian Dooley, creator of Praxis Framework, which has a maturity assessment for projects, programmes and portfolios which can be accessed - free of charge - used and the outcomes recorded. It's called Maturity 360.
Alongside Adrian, Eileen will be looking at the PMO side of maturity assessments - why carry them out and how the PMO can use them to improve on their own service offerings for the business.
In this session, we've invited Pragmatic PMO - Ken Burrell - who has been a PMO contractor for over ten years - to share his insights on how he became a contractor and more crucially, how he's managed to make a long-term career working on a freelance basis.
There are lots of avenues that could be explored like how do you know when is the right time to go contracting? Which option should I choose - contracting, fixed-term, consulting? What do you need to know about the financial implications? How to get started in a new contract position and what to watch out for?
In this session, we welcome the author of the book "Business Storytelling for Dummies".
If you are interested in how you can improve the way your PMO reports and communicates - engaging senior executives and managers - compelling people to make decisions and take action - this is the session for you.
In this free session we take a look at the PMO service catalogue and learn how to create a PMO service. Attendees will learn about why a service catalogue exists, what it is used for and how to create one for your PMO.
Eileen will get into the detail of what a service consists of and how to complete the description of a service and the key elements required to fully outline the service.
You’ll also see examples of the latest services to be added by the House of PMO and you’ll be encouraged to take part in the latest initiative by the House of PMO – The PMO Service Catalogue Project.
How many times do we hear the term about PMOs being the 'critical friend' to our Project Managers, Programme Managers, SROs and others? Do we really understand what it means to be a critical friend?
In this session, we're joined by Neil Goldsmith, a professional 'critical friend' who will give us all the insights we need to make sure we're performing the role of critical friend well.
We will find out what it really means to be a critical friend and find out how you can become an effective one. We will also understand what form it takes, the different approaches and techniques to use.
Neil has performed the role of critical friend in some of the highest profile projects and programmes over the years and is still called on by various government departments today to provide that role. He has plenty of stories to share that will help you form your own insights and takeaways on how you could be performing the critical friend role.
In this session, we listen to a PMO story from Latin America. Manuel Lopez talks about his experiences working in an IT environment for a Global Insurance company based in Mexico.
We're looking forward to hearing a different perspective as Manuel talks about what the main challenges are for the PMO when working in Global environments, from cultural to language barriers and how we can be successful.
Manuel also talks about the differences between the global and local levels - how good practices implemented at a global level don't always make it to the local level, who remain stubbornly independent and resistant to change, "we have being doing it like this for several years". Sound familar?
With this session we'll hear from Manuel's experiences about how he implemented the PMO to achieve results; getting people to take action and utilise the PMO's best practices and how the value of the
PMO needs to be promoted to all company levels all the time even with your own team.