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In this PMO Career Hour session, we brought together a small group of PMO practitioners who were interested in exploring other ways to develop themselves that doesn't break the bank.
We looked at the 70-20-10 model of learning sources - with the large majority of our learning coming from 'on-the-job'.
We also looked at cheaper ways to learn about the many different subjects that impact the PMO role but the same challenge always emerges - it's not necessarily about having a budget to take up learning opportunities, the biggest challenge we have is making the time.
That's a motivation that has to come from yourself, making learning a habit rather than an afterthought.
Take a look at the session recorded after the event (we don't record these career sessions so people feel comfortable talking freely) and the session notes.
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We continue our weekly PMO Flashmob meetups on a Wednesday (with the delightful HotPMO as co-host!).
Each week (even now eight, nine weeks later) feels slightly out of control as we have group chats; breakout sessions; quick-fire presentations; using different collaborative tools; show-and-tells and the odd jingle thrown in there.
We started it, well, because we knew we wouldn't be in our usual haunts (aka pubs) for a while and we would miss chatting to others and sharing stuff like we normally do.
Over the past couple of months so far in lockdown we've learnt together - especially how to get on in the virtual world - and how our work might be changing now and in the future. Sometimes we've gone for themes, sometimes not.
In this post, we share the outcomes from a session about development.
In it we kick off with a ten-in-ten (10 slides, 10 minutes); then onto a crowdsourced view of what development people have undertaken (taken across four different levels of roles); a chat about what's been useful in their development and finally, what further development people are looking to do.
Interested? Read on.
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