Sponsorship

PMO Flashmob returned to Edinburgh with a lively evening exploring PMO best practices. Dive into key takeaways on standardisation, governance, strategic alignment, and service delivery — and how PMOs can adapt, enable, and evolve to deliver real value.

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Sponsor, Executive, or SRO—whatever the title, the role is critical to project success. Watch Dr Ian Clarkson explore the key knowledge, skills, and behaviours every effective project sponsor needs. Includes recording and slide deck.

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Catch up on this #PMOwfh session with Andrew Whyatt-Sames’ keynote in 10 slides. Explore PMO leadership challenges, sponsor engagement, psychological contracts, and lessons from Japanese culture.

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Who should line manage the PMO Manager? Should it be the PMO Sponsor or Champion? This in-depth exploration gathers views from across the PMO community to uncover real-world practices and strategic insights for positioning PMOs for success.

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The Sponsor (programme or project) is a key player in programme and project delivery, but many PMOs still aim their services at the Programme and Project Managers. Why is that? Is the PMO missing a vital customer – arguably one of the most important roles in the whole delivery chain? During this session, we took a look at some of the reasons why this is and how to overcome them. We considered the key value-added services that can be offered by the PMO for the benefits of the sponsor – and what’s needed by the PMO team in terms of skills and experience to support that. This session is a good one for anyone working in a PMO which offers services to the business – whether that’s at project, programme or portfolio – and for PMO practitioners looking to up their value by working with and supporting senior management. The session was delivered by Eileen Roden – she’s also delivering the PMO Learning Project Sponsorship and the PMO course so you’ll gain some great insights. (If you're interested in the course, use the code #pmof-sponsor to get an extra 10% off.)  

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Discover practical tips for PMO practitioners to effectively engage senior executives. Learn from Terry Doerscher’s insights on data use, sponsorship, trust building, and value-based communication.

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From PMO metrics to lessons learned, here's what delegates took away from the PMO Unconference. Seven real-world insights to inspire your PMO practice—plus the right way to peel a post-it.

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If you're working in a PMO today you'll definitely have them. Sponsors. Sponsors of projects and programmes and sponsors of the PMO itself. These are the people who the buck stops with - the people who want and need the benefits that come from doing the project in the first place. Or in the case of PMO sponsorship, the benefits of having a PMO. We've all got mixed experiences when working with them.

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