In this session Henny Portman will take you with him to get an understanding of the role of a CoE, the functions a CoE can perform e.g. standards and methods, internal consultancy, organisational learning and knowledge management, and people and skills. Theory will be combined with his own experiences, resulting in best and good practises. He will show you an overview of more than 50 different standards and methods and how to cope with that from a CoE perspective.
Takeaways:
Understanding the CoE concept
Good & best practices for CoE’s
Get insights in the PM(O) standards wood and don’t get lost
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In 2014, my team put PPM theories and models to one side and focused on listening to the challenges of our senior management team at Ofgem. Since then, we have changed to focus on the whole business lifecycle through strategy, projects and operational performance. In this presentation, I will use my own experiences to encourage PMO Managers to take a step back, consider what their organisation really needs and perhaps take a fresh approach to the development of their PMO.
Takeaways:
Think about the PMO in a business context
Consider different ways to approach senior stakeholders
Learn about practical ways to create a portfolio function from scratch
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There are many definitions for the programme office. In this presentation, it is: “The decision-making and support group responsible for ensuring that programme goals are achieved. It provides support to the SRO/Executive Sponsor and the programme team.”
Governance is currently one of the most misused terms in the business as it is mainly focused on monitoring and control. Programme governance consists of more than that. The programme office will need to address the three following principles as part of their governance responsibility:
Develop the program vision and objective, based on the business strategy and stakeholders’ needs;
Put in place the right structures and allocating the resources necessary to achieve the vision;
Set up appropriate monitoring and control systems to make the right decisions and realign the program if necessary.
This presentation will examine each of these three streams and explain how to achieve these objectives.
Takeaways:
Understand how program office governance is linked to corporate governance and strategic objectives
Realise, through examples, how these governance principles are applied
Appreciate practical tools and concepts that can be used to achieve governance responsibilities
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In this session, Tim explores the value of taking a structured, best practice approach to improving project, programme and portfolio capability using P3M3 and sets out the pros and cons.
This session will be useful for any PMO professionals whose remit includes improving organisational capability in project, programme or portfolio management.
The session will describe, in brief, the P3M3 model (levels and structure) including how you can access and use the freely available self assessment tool, giving you an opportunity to apply it to your own organisation.
Throughout the session Tim will draw on case studies and examples including TfL and will set out success factors and tips.
Takeaways:
Understand why you would use maturity
Understand the P3M3 standard including the self assessment tool and how the 2015 version 3 P3M3 has changed
How to get the most out of it and how to pitch it
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Many people believe that the way to make delivery better is focus on ‘doing things better’, but also on ‘doing better things’. If, as a PMO Manager, I’m on top of my game with delivery support, can I help the business ‘doing better things’?
As the ‘PMO Lead’ – my boss (the COO) and I might see me as an obvious starting point to introduce more systematic portfolio management, but perhaps the CFO thinks differently?
I am ambitious – and I know the theory – what might the pathway look like, and what key moments are there along the way?
In this session, David explores how PMO Managers can tackle portfolio management for the first time - exploring different plans and steps
Takeaways:
Options for starting portfolio management in your PMO
Explore tried and tested approaches
Areas to focus on when implementing portfolio management
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