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Latest News - Kicking Off 2023
The beginning of the year and it’s all about getting organised and getting back up to speed to tackle 2023. This month at the House of PMO, we have a number of events which are focused at helping you to do just that.
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Setting Up Your PMO for a Successful Year Ahead
“You can’t change the past. You can only learn from it...
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AI in the Room: What PMO Professionals Need to Know Right Now
AI is moving fast. Ridiculously fast, really. And for PMO professionals, the message from James Garner and Yoshi Soornack’s session at Project Forum...
Behaviours of a Successful PMO
PMO success isn’t just about processes, tools or competence - it’s about the behaviours people experience day to day How do you feel about this...
ePMO Services / Live from Project Forum
Recorded at Project Forum, this session focuses on what actually works. Eileen Roden shares five essential EPMO services and the critical...
The Programme Office: What It Is, What It Does, and Who Works Within It
The Programme Office is one of the most common types of PMO you’ll come across. It appears in organisations of all shapes and sizes and yet… it’s...
Truth, Lies and RAG Status: A PMO Leader’s Guide
Lies, Damned Lies and RAGs Reporting is one of the fundamentals of PMO and the RAG status is a fundamental of reporting, so getting it right is...
PMO Development Plans: Are You Drifting, Wandering or Designing Your Career?
The PMO Career Hours are smaller group conversations for members. We don't record them but we certainly make a note of the insights that come from...
AI for the PMO: What to Do After You’ve Been Told to “Use AI”
Our brand-new Practical AI Skills for the PMO course is now live and open for booking, and if the response to this session was anything to go by,...
Four PMO Fallacies That Can Quietly Kill PMO Value
Based on articles by Octavius Black CBE and Katie Jacobs. We often talk about having to demonstrate the value PMOs bring to the organisation. That’s...
Beyond Agile & Waterfall: How to Build Hybrid Methods
If you’re still hearing “Are we Agile or Waterfall?”, this session is for you. Ivan Vaptsarov cuts through the tired debate and gets practical about...
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“You can’t change the past. You can only learn from it and use it to influence the future.” In this session we take a practical, honest look at how PMOs and PMO professionals can stop getting stuck in the rear-view mirror and start looking through the windscreen. It's...
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A key topic area for many PMOs right now – working with the Agile approach.
There have been two prominent areas of learning, discussion and sharing of insights around Agile.
The first, how does the PMO support both traditional projects and projects which have adopted the Agile philsophy or approach? Questions like how to report on both; how to realise benefits; what happens with the business case?
The second, how does the PMO support Agile-at-scale, so focusing on the portfolio management level, what does the PMO need to do to support the business and help make all projects successful.
Agile PMO
At the heart of what House of PMO is all about – helping PMO professionals to develop themselves in their careers.
There are so many different aspects of our careers and over the years we’ve shared lots of practical insights, advice and tips.
We’ve covered everything from practical tips on creating a great PMO CV; developing yourself in your role; courses to consider doing; continuous improvements; different career paths; networking – you name it we’ve covered it.
Careers
How many times do you hear the words “adding value” when it comes to the work the PMO does?
It’s one of those phrases that makes little sense until you start to dig into what the PMO does – do they do it successfully – and is it needed by the business?
The whole theme of metrics and measures was one of our Inside PMO reports and it’s an area we often revisit as PMOs are looking for the key to maturing their services and really delivering what is written in their mandate.
We grabble with the objective and subjective measures – the tangible and intangible – the metrics that belong to the PMO and the ones that are project and programme owned.
Then there’s the metrics and measures for the PMO team and the leader – which measures can be attributed fairly?
Metrics & Measures
