This year's theme at PMI's PMO Symposium was all about Benefits Management, a big change from last year where the talk was all about portfolio management. There were about 700-800 people in attendance over the three days - and the set up was the same as last year. Some opening keynote speeches - a learning excursion (I picked the hospital - fascinating when you compare it to the NHS and what we have here) - then sessions you could pick from across six different streams. Some of these streams were what they called Knowledge Hubs, small groups of people being facilitated in a discussion about a particular topic.
This year, Eileen Roden, PMO Flashmobber joined me - and we bumped into John McIntyre (Ticketmaster PMO Manager, who was presenting a couple of sessions) and Mr Portfolio, Craig Kilford.
So what did I take away from this year's PMO Symposium? Here are my top ten messages:
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Watch the video below to see our experiences from day 2 of the 2016 PMO Symposium.
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Take a look at the video below to find out more about the first day of the 2016 PMO Symposium
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The theme for this year's PMI PMO Symposium was portfolio management - or strategy execution - depending on how you like to call that. It is in effect the second year the PMO Symposium has focused on this particular angle which tells you something about which type of PMO is the hot favourite right now. In fact over the three days of the Symposium you'll be hard pushed to find any sessions or conversations about project or programme office and because of portfolio angle, the audience was very much targeted right.
So what did I learn - or take away from the three days spent in Arizona? Well, I thought about calling this article the top ten trends but that would be stretching it so instead I've gone with what key messages were put out there that leave some food for thought:
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