Assurance

Measures for Assuring Projects

The PMO can provide several supporting services around assurance. In this session, we learn about measures – specifically the measure of confidence in the potential for a project or programme to succeed.
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Being a Critical Friend

How many times do we hear the term about PMOs being the ‘critical friend’ to our Project Managers, Programme Managers, SROs and others? Do we really understand what it means to be a critical friend? In this session, we were joined by Neil Goldsmith, a professional ‘critical friend’ who gave us all the insights about performing the role of critical friend well.
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#PMOwfh / Assurance and Emeralds

In this session we covered: The problem with not being able to buy P3O manuals anymore; project status updates with Insta; working from home versus the office; project assurance; audit + added value = assurance and emerald glasses.
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PMO: Second Line of Defence – Integrated Assurance

What is integrated assurance? And what does the PMO need to understand and do with integrated assurance? That was the topic of the January 2020 PMO Flashmob with guest presenter Roy Millard. Roy is the founder and Chairman of the APM Assurance Specific Interest Group and talks to the PMO Flashmobbers with over 15 years experience in this specialist knowledge area of project management. So what is integrated assurance?
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