Portfolio Management

PMO Conference 2022 \\ The Continuous Evolution of the PMO – Kerri Maciver

In this session we hear from Police Scotland about PMO journey in the last five years and what’s driving them forward to keep evolving. Growing in size and capability over five years, meeting and overcoming challenges to embed the changes required – we heard about the tough times and the pleasant surprises, the lessons learnt and find out what they’re focusing on right now and how that is setting themselves up for the next part of their journey.
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PMO Conference 2022 \\ Rapid PMO Experiments to Turbo-Charge Delivery – John McIntyre

Business demands always outstrip supply. How do you decide which projects and features to focus on? Your product managers may talk about building small ‘MVPs’ but what does that really mean? In this interactive session, John McIntyre from HotPMO introduces the concept of Rapid Delivery Experiments which will change the way your portfolio approves projects, whilst massively reducing uncertainty and risk.
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PMO Challenges in a Global Environment

In this session we hear a different perspective on building the maturity of the delivery organisation and what the PMO did to support that. The session also covers the cultural clashes that can happen and the language barriers of global PMOs. Manuel López joins us from Mexico City where he managed the Latin American PMO in a global insurance organisation.
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Project Prioritisation and the PMO

In this PMO Flashmob evening session, we learnt about what good portfolio prioritisation and business case management looks like, and how the PMO can become a key enabler and participant during the design, set-up and running of these management processes. Demand management is challenging for a number of organisations, with many seeking a more holistic approach combined with practical guidance. In this session, we hear about best practice and learn from real-life examples. By the end, we had an understanding of the basic concepts of demand management, the business case management and portfolio prioritisation process, and role that PMO can and should play. Why listen to the Session? Alignment to the Business Case competency and focusing on the portfolio context. Good for PMO Managers and Directors who are implementing or have implemented services around business cases and project prioritisation Great for PMO Administrators and Analysts to understand what business case and project prioritisation means in a PMO context.
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The Savvy PMO’s Guide to Prioritization

Prioritisation is all about choosing which projects to run and is a key part of portfolio management. In this guide, we particularly liked the insights on the different types of scoring which can be done to see which projects should be carried out and in what order. If you're interested in portfolio management and prioritisation, download the ebook
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Portfolio Management – A Simple Process?

Portfolio management - a simple process? Perhaps you're shaking your head at that but what if we said that intrinsically those portfolio management processes are simple - it's just when people get involved that it becomes complicated. In this session we were joined by Lucy Loh, a consultant focused on organisation diagnosis, design and development, business architecture, strategy development, and organisational change using systems approaches. She's also co-author on a book on a systemic approach to business strategy - Patterns of Strategy (we like this one!) In this session, we looked at the 13 different ways that the portfolio management process gets derailed - what the PMO crew thought about that and how to deal with them  
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Speaking to Senior Executives

Week 16 of #PMOwfh - four months of PMO chat, debate, a few laughs and lots of sharing during four months of the pandemic. There's one thing we've definitely learnt during this time - there's no limit to the subjects and themes we can choose to get into, the life of a PMO is such a varied and interesting one! This week we're looking at the theme of "talking to senior executives". It was one suggested by one of the crew so here we are. We were delighted to have Terry Doerscher join us from good ole Texas. Terry has loads of relatable experiences and knowledge, plus he's a really nice bloke. He's the author of a great book - Taming Change with Portfolio Management - an excellent choice if you're working at the senior level in portfolio PMO. The 10-in-10 session from Terry covered: Role of the PMO from an executive perspective Communicating project and portfolio performance Effective portfolio governance and project sponsorship
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