PMO Skills

Next generation project portfolio management (PPM) is coming as organisations look for new approaches to deliver better results than the incremental improvements to existing portfolio management practices can offer. It will fundamentally change the way organisations view projects, programs and the portfolio and will deliver a cohesive, integrated approach that involves all business functions and provides a single, portfolio driven alignment for all projects. Takeaways: A new way of thinking about portfolio management and an appreciation for how their organisation can improve An awareness of the conversations that need to happen with other ‘non-traditional’ departments (HR, Finance, etc.) about the roles they need to play in a successful portfolio A roadmap to evolve the PMO to prepare for this new philosophy of top down, all-encompassing project delivery

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This session recorded at Project Challenge in London is all about what makes good PMO people effective in their work. Over the course of the two days we also asked people to add to our wall where we asked them about their good and bad habits.

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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.

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