Saudi Arabia has been dependent on oil but with the reduction in demand and the drop of oil prices it needs to find alternative revenue sources. Saudi Arabia is going through a 15-year plan called Vision 2030, reinventing itself by moving up the value chain. To do this, large and complex projects have been identified and budgets have been established. The Saudi King has carried out an assessment of critical success factors and determined that PMOs at all levels of the government and industry are key to success for these projects.
The concept of PMOs have been established at the Kingdom level reporting to highest authority. This presentation explains why and how the PMOs have been established and how the topology reflects the business demand across the various departments and industries.
This amazing story explains how PMOs were identified as functional critical success factors and how they are one of the main pillars of success for a nation that needs to change.
The presentation moves from the macro to the micro level and details the 10 top challenges PMO Directors and PMO Managers face in the government sector.
Takeaways:
Saudi Arabia success story in using unified PMO approaches across all government entities to achieve Vision2030
Key role and power of decision makers on PMO success
10 top challenges PMO Directors and PMO Managers face in the government environment
How do major organizational transformation projects succeed? A promising approach is to design the PMO to integrate project management, change management and process management. This approach requires decision-makers to develop a global view on the organizational project management and to encourage innovation and internal partnerships. This presentation will show the results of an academic research that focus on major organizational transformations. Findings from three in-depth case studies confirm the role a PMO can play in transforming the organization.
Takeaways:
Develop competences in PMO design as a function of the organizational project management
Understand what is an integrative PMO, its characteristics and functions
Learn from the particular role of a PMO in major transformation projects
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At the last PMO Flashmob in June we produced a list of all the PMO service areas we could think of.
The idea was to visually demonstrate just how many service areas are currently associated with PMOs today. It sounded like a good basis for conversations with the group.
The service areas were taken from P3O, some of the work we previously carried out in relation to competencies and by looking at current PMO practitioners CVs.
We thought it might be interesting to see if there were hotspots - are there areas of commonality? This was interesting because we often hear that every PMO is different yet there are obviously core service areas that can be found in almost every PMO.
I've often thought that the more we hear that every PMO is different, the more PMO practitioners get short-changed because different inevitably means difficult. It means things like specific PMO training courses or a PMO competency framework which a wide range of PMO practitioners could benefit from never seem to get created. Different means we give up. But are we that different?
We had a small group in June yet with the service areas pinned up on the walls of the pub we could see quite quickly that there were areas of commonality.
So we thought why not get more PMO practitioners to fill it in and see what the results look like.
At the PMO Flashmob in November we started taking a look at PMO skills and competencies. We decided to concentrate on this area because currently there is no standard PMO competency framework (unlike project managers) and many PMO practitioners would like to change this for two reasons. One, for their own self-development and career path. Two, to help them when managing their PMOs within an organisation as it is an area that is frequently requested by their organisations.
We started off by getting the group into smaller teams. Within each team we shared the following brief presentation.
Last night's PMO Flashmob took place in a little place that wouldn't look out of place in a Dickens novel.
The Samuel Pepys bar on Stew Lane looks out across the Thames to the Tate Modern, certainly a photogenic spot! So against a true London backdrop PMO professionals from across the capital came together over a pint or two to chat about their worldSome of the themes for the evening included reinvention, skills and competencies, job hunting and career values. Here's just a flavour of the conversations, I can't hope to capture the whole thing but it should give you a feel of the type of conversations that happen.
