PMO Books

A new book from the Association for Project Management entitled “Project Controls in the 21st Century” (PC21C). “Would it be worth PMO practitioners spending £80 on?” Find out with this book review and insight from Chris Walters

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PMI’s Leading AI Transformation standard highlights the PMO’s critical role in adopting and integrating AI into organisations. Discover key takeaways, responsibilities, and how PMOs can drive governance, strategy, and value from AI initiatives.

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In this session, the PMI PMO Practice Guide is reviewed and discussed, focusing on the four key themes and comparisons to other guidance.

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Explore key insights from Susie Palmer-Trew’s Everyday Change Playbook in this PMO session. From dealing with resistance to embracing face-to-face communication, discover practical tips and inspiration for leading everyday change in your PMO and beyond.

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Discover key insights from our PMO Book Club session on the P3G governance principles. Includes discussion highlights, PMO implications, DECA tool overview, and whether the book is worth buying.

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Ever heard that PMOs shut down every 3-4 years? Turns out, that quote’s wrong! In this PMO Book Club session, we explore A Quest for Understanding by Aubry and Hobbs — the foundational research on why PMOs evolve, adapt, and sometimes disappear. Free to PMI members, it's essential reading for any PMO practitioner.

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That was the blog title from a recent post on the APM website which was written in response to the current work being undertaken to refresh APM's Body of Knowledge (BoK) (from version 6 to 7). The post - you can read it here - talks about how PMOs are not really mentioned in the BoK at all, instead they'll get a mention in the area that covers off the different types of roles that exist in project management.(take a look at the proposed contents) And that - from the Chartered Body for the Project Profession -  dear PMO colleagues is your lot.

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Last week was Project Challenge. We love doing this show for a number of reasons - mainly it's about meeting PMO practitioners and finding out what they're up to and telling them about what we're doing at PMO Flashmob. At this Autumn's show we were able to share details about a new booklet that Eileen Roden has been working on as part of a new sister company to PMO Flashmob. It's called PMO Learning and it will be offering PMO courses and training. More about that later. The new booklet has been created in conjunction with the Association for International PMOs (AIPMO) and leading experts in the field. The session we ran at Project Challenge was all about the PMO Principles. Here's the overview:

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Explore the evolving challenges of programme-level PMOs from bureaucracy and funding to resource management and outdated technology. Learn how the PMO must adapt to remain relevant and valuable.

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Last month at Project Challenge we had the opportunity to record one of the presentations that we've been keen to hear about for a while, project leadership. Sarah Coleman is co-author of the new Project Leadership book and Sarah hosted a session on that subject. You can view the whole presentation (and I recommend you do) below. Here's the eight insights we took away from the presentation because as you know, leadership is just as important to the PMO community too:

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