Delivery Support

The Half Double Methodology – What the PMO Needs to Know

The Half Double Methodology is a hybrid project delivery approach - this approach seeks to achieve double the impact in half the time by blending traditional and agile project management techniques. It's also a very human-centric methdology - ensuring that the methodology is not just about tools and frameworks but also about fostering collaboration, trust, and leadership tailored to the people driving projects.
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How PMOs Creatively Challenge the Status Quo

In this session, Sharon Williams looks at the benefits of the PMO challenging the status quo and supporting more creative thinking during delivery and how they can do that. Through sharing of real-life examples from programmes and projects worked on, the session covers the changes that the PMO has had to make and what the outcomes were.
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PMO Trends for 2022 with the Lodgers

Each year we published the trends we think will have an impact on PMOs for the coming year, these are the trends for 2022. In this session, we asked our lodgers to share their own insights based on the trends this year. In the recording, you'll hear about some of their choices - including the centre of excellence; new working practices, citizen developer, the hybrid challenge and resilience. Hopefully, it will give you some different insights into each of those areas - plus watch out for the gorilla!
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Principles for Project Success

In July 2020, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), a government organisation, released a white paper which focused on eight principles, "a quick guide for practitioners on things to get right for any project to succeed" The IPA is the UK government’s centre of expertise for infrastructure and major projects and is aligned with the Cabinet Office and the Treasury. If you've not seen the paper, take a look at it here. We were specifically interested in what the principles for project success are and take another look at the PMO Principles in light of them.  The challenge for PMOs is also how to embed and ingrain these principles within our organisations.
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