With the term PMO recognised as covering all manner of activities this session will give you perspective from the BBC's corporate PMO.
Stuart will outline the role his team performs in supporting and challenging the BBC's critical projects and how the PMO's course has adjusted over time with experiences.
Developing capability has remained a cornerstone of their approach and with the BBC facing unprecedented levels of change, Stuart will share a view on the PMOs role in helping to project leaders to deliver change successfully.
Takeaways:
Opportunity to compare function and reflect priorities
Recognition of the journey in maturing a PMO function
Offer a view on the PMOs role with business change
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How to do the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team.
Delivering Successful PMOs: A Greenfield PMO will reveal how a clear framework to conceive, design, build, prove and embody an enterprise PMO inside an organisation, dealing with the strategic intentions, the politics, the people and the projects.
This is not just theory or perfect world modelling, this is proven practice from where the speaker, Ray Mead, has, through his P3M Consultancy, p3m global, built enterprise PMOs for major organisations from the ground up - Greenfield PMOs.
Takeaways:
Practice tips and tools that can be applied to current and planned PMOs.
Exposure to a clear proven methodology for building and running a successful PMO.
An honest and pragmatic assessment of what does and doesn’t work in establishing PMO.
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Organisations have been continuously seeking ways to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their programme and project delivery processes in order to achieve higher return on investment.
PMOs have increasingly played a key role in this trend mostly by ensuring the correct utilisation of project management best practices and by supporting the programme and project delivery processes.
In this scenario, PMOs play a significant role in supporting the utilisation of benefits realisation management practices to ensure programmes and projects maximising the creation of strategic value to the business.
The presentation will focus on some key areas where the PMO can support effective benefits realisation and what many organisations are still finding challenging, which are benefits definition and benefits tracking. The key organisational roles and responsibilities to enable effective benefits realisation will also be discussed as well as the key challenges that organisations face to have benefits realisation management implemented on organisational level.
Takeaways:
How to define a benefit
How to track benefits realisation
What are the key organisational roles for creation of organisational value through effective Benefits Realisation Management
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Implementing a new PMO is a challenge in any organisation – add in a conflict zone and a humanitarian crisis to the mix and suddenly the need to deliver results moves from “business critical” to literally the ability “to save lives”.
Eddie Borup recounts his time as Head of Programme for a large international agency in the development/humanitarian sector, appointed just a few days prior to a brutal civil war starting in South Sudan. Arriving on the ground he saw the shift of his programme move from development support to humanitarian aid overnight.
He was accountable for a $30m programme which included the building of camps (IDP) to protect the internally displaced citizens, extend airstrips to enable aid to be delivered, roads to ensure food security and other infrastructure related projects including the renovation/building of hospitals.
Eddie shares the critical success factors in setting up a PMO in this environment, focusing on the functions and services of the PMO that really mattered. Combined with insights into this unusual working environment, Eddie also tells his story about taking on a challenge like this and what lessons can be learned for other organisations who need to deliver business critical programme and projects – regardless of the sector and environment.
Takeaways:
Practical example of the benefits of an effective PMO
Hints and Tips on what makes a PMO successful
How the lessons learned can be translated to other sectors
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Craig turned 40 in December and following some life reflection he created an eclectic list of 40 Portfolio Management do’s and do not's based on his 20 year career in portfolio management.
Takeaways:
Exposure to real lessons learned
Understanding of solutions to key challenges faced by many people in portfolio management
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