In this opening keynote for Edinburgh in November 2023, PMO author Bill Dow joined us from Seattle, USA. Bill focused on the key ingredient of world-class PMOs, it's all about the people who work within them. How can we enhance our PMO culture and practices to empower our team members, fostering their growth and development towards achieving world-class PMO status?
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In this session, Paul Fenton gives a detailed insight and practical takeaways on what happens when projects and programmes go into special measures in the public sector. This is where the PMO can really come into its own.
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In this session we hear from Deloitte about their PMOaaS model - where the PMO and its services are a product which is sold to their clients as part of their consulting engagements. This session is a great listen for any PMO as the service-based approach is applicable to everyone.
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The story of Telstra’s PMO has everything – there’s the first Chief Project Officer role, then there’s the ePMO and portfolio approach (“to advance project management to improve business value”). There are key focus areas on capability, assurance, community, project sponsorship, business case, benefits, advice and intervention – all those areas PMOs should strive to deliver and support.
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We're delighted to have Bill join us in this PMO Book Club session and he will be specifically focusing on the running a PMO part. He'll be focusing on areas such as executive level reporting; managing PMO resources and looking at the day-to-day operations in running a PMO.
It's not often we focus on the actual day-to-day operations of a PMO - setting up a PMO seems to be the one that is often in the spotlight - so it'll be good to talk about dashboards and scorecards; think about weekly checklists, and metrics and performance.
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