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The PMO Charter

I can't believe we've not covered PMO Charters before at PMO Flashmob but last week on #PMOwfh that was the theme for the afternoon session. What is a PMO Charter? Well you can read on to have a listen to the video session; take a look at the slidedeck; find out what your PMO peers think and even download a few examples.
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Developing Your PMO Career

We continue our weekly PMO Flashmob meetups on a Wednesday (with the delightful HotPMO as co-host!). Each week (even now eight, nine weeks later) feels slightly out of control as we have group chats; breakout sessions; quick-fire presentations; using different collaborative tools; show-and-tells and the odd jingle thrown in there. We started it, well, because we knew we wouldn't be in our usual haunts (aka pubs) for a while and we would miss chatting to others and sharing stuff like we normally do. Over the past couple of months so far in lockdown we've learnt together - especially how to get on in the virtual world - and how our work might be changing now and in the future. Sometimes we've gone for themes, sometimes not. In this post, we share the outcomes from a session about development. In it we kick off with a ten-in-ten (10 slides, 10 minutes); then onto a crowdsourced view of what development people have undertaken (taken across four different levels of roles); a chat about what's been useful in their development and finally, what further development people are looking to do. Interested? Read on.
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From Crisis to Recovery: What the PMO Can Be Doing Now?

In last week's #PMOwfh we had a great session led by Adam Skinner about the impact the pandemic has had on our organisation's portfolio of projects - lots of mothballing and projects put on hold. The session also looked forward to recovery and the thinking that is required now, to start getting a plan in place for recovery. The PMO has a role to play in that recovery and in this 30-minute session, Adam takes us through that.  
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