Top Ten Messages from PMO Symposium 2015

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: