12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas

Seven Ah-ha Moments

It's another of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and in this post we're sharing seven (swans a-swimming) things the delegates learnt plucked from the ah-ha board we had. The idea of an unconference is to share as much of the insights you can and for us that meant good old post-it notes after the Breakout at the Bar sessions and from thoughts after listening to some of the sessions. Here we share seven insights:
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Setting Up a PMO

It's the sixth (geese a-laying) day of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and some further insights from our first PMO Unconference from Manchester. We split the day into four areas: setting up a PMO; running a PMO; closing down a PMO and evolving a PMO. To get us going we had Nicole Reilly setting us up for the day with.. Setting Up a PMO
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The PMO Justice League

Here’s the fifth of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and some insights from our first PMO Unconference. [You can see the other 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas here] In this session, we shared a Lightning Talk. These were five minute slots which were given over the PMO practitioners who wanted to get up and share their own experiences and insights on a certain topic. There were nine brave souls getting up there and sharing on the day - each one of them did a great job and added some different and diverse thinking for the day.
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Standing Up for Lessons Learnt

It's another of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and some insights from our first PMO Unconference from Manchester. This is number four and we're learning lessons. In this session, Ken Burrell told us not to give up on the whole lessons learnt recorded challenges we face. We can do better, we must do better if the PMO is there to ensure the organisation performs better at programme and project management.
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PMO Room 101

It's another 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas - number 3! - this time we're looking at shutting down a PMO. It's not necessarily a bad thing of course - there are plenty of temporary PMOs out there that get closed down once the project or programme has been delivered. In this session from the PMO Unconference - Stand Up for PMO - we wanted to look at some of the negatives - some of the things that the PMO should be mindful of NOT doing. Take a look at the video session from Mike Belch and the Room 101 of PMO.
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