PMO Career

In this session we covered different areas of “taking ownership” – what that really means, what does it look like, how you can take ownership. We’ll also looked closer at the “PMO career” and uncover lots of different avenues that should spark thoughts about your own career to date and where you want to be next. Full of practical tips and insights plus a chance to hear how others are taking ownership of their PMO career.

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In this session we focused on the subject of a PMO career - what makes a good career? How do people feel about their career? Do they take ownership for it? We don't record the actual session (so we can open conversations!) but we do share the deck and give you some insights into how the session went.

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In this article we share a presentation from John McIntyre - a passionate and energetic speaker about PMO - about an alternative way of thinking about our development as PMO practitioners.

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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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Another resource for you to check out if you've not already, the PMO Strategies podcast is now 37 episodes strong and the latest one features a bit of PMO Flashmob as we talk to Laura Barnard about careers in PMO. The podcast can be accessed through your usual podcasting places or you can listen right at your desk by [visiting the website here] We had a good old chat about different aspects of PMO careers - check out the agenda below on my usual scribble pad! If you have any great podcasts you listen to, why not leave a comment below and let us know, I always like having a listen when I'm pottering around the garden or taking the train - where do you like to listen?

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