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Here's the first of our 12 Stand Up for PMO Days Before Christmas and some insights from our first PMO Unconference.
In this 15 minute session, we share the Quite Interesting PMO Research bit.
All the sessions at the PMO Unconference were designed to be short and packed with information that hopefully signposts you to places to read more. In this session, I shared some of the latest insights from those in the research community who are focused on PMO.
I wanted to cut through the research speak and explore what was useful for the PMO practitioner today.
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Academic research tells us that project success correlates to emotional intelligence (not IQ) and consequently emotional intelligence is now recognised as a requisite skill for project managers. Anthony Mersino has written a book that provides advice on applying emotional intelligence specifically within the project management environment.
The book starts with an introduction to emotional intelligence and Mersino’s emotional intelligence framework. It explains how the reader can become more aware of their emotions and gives advice on how to control and manage those emotions. The author then explains how the reader can use emotional intelligence to manage both stakeholders and project teams.
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THIS HOUSE BELIEVES PMOs ARE IN DECLINE
Before the debate started, we wanted to give the attendees a chance to think about the motion. Were they for it, against it, or undecided?
Those against it felt that there was no evidence to support any decline, in fact there were more job advertisements for PMO, the publication of P3O and a feeling that PMO is in more demand especially in smaller companies. Those for the motion suggested that the PMO has become an organisation dumping ground, confusion on what it actually means, another layer of administration in a business and the PMO has an inability to define its value. For those sitting on the fence, it was their lack of experience of other PMOs that made them indecisive, there doesn't seem to be a baseline or consensus about PMOs, the definition differs everywhere.
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