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Explore how PMOs balance reward and enforcement to motivate project teams. Carrot or stick? Learn what works, why context matters, and how to shift from ‘project police’ to trusted partner.
Discover how wedding singers, jazz bands & Elvis offer surprising lessons for PMOs. A fresh, fun look at project support through a musical lens. Watch the session now.
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After 23 weeks of virtual PMO catch-ups, we wrapped up #PMOwfh with a session on mental wellbeing with Sharon De Mascia. Watch the session replay and explore the impact of lockdown on PMO and workplace wellbeing.
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Explore the essential soft skills for PMO professionals—from storytelling and stakeholder engagement to leadership and emotional intelligence. Learn how they drive maturity and long-term success in project environments.
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Explore how PMOs can transform the lessons learned process into meaningful organisational learning. Practical tools, facilitation tips, and insights for adding real value.
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Juliet Doswell reviews Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers by Anthony Mersino, exploring how EQ impacts project success, team leadership, and stakeholder engagement.
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Discover how PMO practitioners can apply servant leadership principles to elevate their performance and value. Learn key behaviours, skills, and next steps to lead with impact in a modern PMO.
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Explore the latest Inside PMO Report and Project Challenge presentation on how PMOs can adapt to support Agile delivery. Learn the eight key functions where PMOs add value and how to develop your Agile PMO skills.
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In the project world, it is important to hold meetings so that problems and challenges can be discussed, and a way forward agreed. It is just as important that these meetings are documented accurately and concisely, and in a timely fashion. Have you ever been to a meeting that was not documented at all, or possibly worse than that, was documented badly?
If meeting outputs are not captured clearly and communicated, it is likely that everyone will come away from the meeting with their own slightly differing interpretations of what happened. It is also quite likely that nothing much will happen as a result of the meeting.
But minute-taking is often seen as a menial and tedious administration duty, and in the project world is often delegated to the most junior PMO person around. And effective minute-taking is harder to do (well) than it looks.
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The PMO Mini-Masterclass on Marketing the PMO was all about "nicking" ideas from the marketing professionals which could help the PMO manage some of the things we often struggle with - like building and maintaining relationships with our stakeholders - or making what we do be more visible which in turn highlights the benefits of having a PMO. Here's the agenda for the evening:
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