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PMO Services
- Know Your PMO's Worth
- Lessons Learnt About Lessons Learnt
- Managing the Perception of Your PMO - Rupert Taylor
- PMO - Carrot or Stick?
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote Speaker - Next-Generation PMO: The Future of the PMO in a DANCE World - Jack S. Duggal
- PMO Flashmob Bans "Added Value"
- PMO Lab: Services
- PMO of the Year - Icing on the Cake?
Project Management
- PMO and the Flow of Knowledge Between Projects
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Supporting and Facilitating the Highest Ever P3M3 Assessment – PMO 4.4 - Wajjahat Khan
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ The PMO Triple Constraint: Standardisation, Discipline and Visibility - Michael Reynders
- PMOs Supporting Modern Project Management - Coaching
- PMOs Supporting Modern Project Management - Conflict Management
- PMOs Supporting Modern Project Management - Facilitation
- PMOs Supporting Modern Project Management - Servant Leadership
- Principles for Project Success
Agile PMO
- Adapting a PMO for Agile Development - Sophie Coady
- Agile and Earned Value - A Metric for PMOs?
- Agile Frameworks: Implications for the PMO
- Agile PMO - How Much is Enough?
- Agile PMO – Is the PMO Equipped to Support Traditional and Agile Projects?
- Agile Portfolio Management - Ed Holt & Barbara Roberts
- Agile Project Governance
- DevOps and the PMO - Supporting Continuous Delivery
Benefits Management
- Benefits Management - A Thinking Tool for the PMO
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Broadchurch or Death in Paradise? The PMO Tracking Benefit Delivery - Alex Clark
- PMO Lab: Driving Executive Business Decisions
- PMO Mini-Masterclass: The PMO and Benefits Management
- The Benefits Landscape
- Top Five Learnings \\ Benefits Management and the PMO
- Top Ten Messages from the PMO Symposium 2016
Change Management
- Evolving the PMO - October 2016
- My first ever PMO Flashmob ended up in a pub
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ PMO: A Strategic Partner (in Crime) - Susie Palmer-Trew
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Strategies and Practices for Change and Transformation: How the PMO Can Play a Pivotal Supporting Role - Deanne Earle and Francesca Valli
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Transforming from a Projects-Driven to Goals-Driven Portfolio - Chris Potts
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Change Management Information & Tools for the PMO - Paul Clavering
- Starting the Conversation: PMO and Change Management
- The Future of the PMO – The Chief Change Officer (CCO) - Simon Harris
Resource Management
- Current Challenges in Resource Management by PMO Practitioners
- Inside PMO \\ Resource Management
- Launch of the New 'Inside PMO' \\ Beyond Timesheets
- PMO Mini-Masterclass: Resource Management
- Resource Management – The Role of the PMO - Paul Major
- Should the PMO have authority to stop projects?
- Why Resource Management Continues to Be on the Too Hard Pile and How to Get it Off
Data Analytics
- Data Storytelling is Influencing
- Easing into Data Analytics \ PMO Trends for 2019
- Future PMO Today - Our Journey to Understanding AI
- Inside PMO \\ AI PMO – Threat or Opportunity?
- Is Project:Hack for the PMO Practitioner?
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Is it Time for PMOs to Admit Defeat with Lessons Learned Processes? - Martin Paver
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote – Giving Data a Voice: Transforming Data into Actionable Insight Through Story - Lori Silverman
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Your New PMO Team Member, a Machine Learning Bot - Jordan Cram
Delivery Support
- Agile PMO – Is the PMO Equipped to Support Traditional and Agile Projects?
- DevOps and the PMO - Supporting Continuous Delivery
- PMO and Project Delivery Transformation with Microsoft Project Online - Chris Ward & Gero Renker
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ How to Implement PPM Technology to Improve Your Organisational Project Management Maturity - Guy Jelley
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote Speaker - Next-Generation PMO: The Future of the PMO in a DANCE World - Jack S. Duggal
- PMO of the Year - Icing on the Cake?
- PMO Services for Agile and Waterfall Projects
- Practical Steps for Getting into Project Co-ordination
Metrics and Measures
- Agile and Earned Value - A Metric for PMOs?
- Goal Setting for PMO Teams
- Inside PMO \\ KPIs, Metrics and Measures
- Inside PMO: KPIs, Metrics and Measures - The Session
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote – You Are Captain of Your Own Ship - Geoff Crane
- PMO Lab: Clean, Consistent and Maintained Project Data
- PMO Lab: Continuous Improvement
- PMO Lab: Driving Executive Business Decisions
PMO Careers
- Advancing Your PMO Career
- Beware of PMO Pay-to-Work Training & Experience Schemes
- Challenges and Trends in a PMO Career
- Developing Your PMO Career
- Developing Your PMO Career
- Dream PMO Jobs
- Drinking from the Source of Truth – how the Modern PMO Needs to Accept and Adopt Technology to Achieve its Goals - Dave Hurren & Kingsley Thomas
- Get a Great PMO Role
Knowledge Management
- Community of Practice Templates
- How Do PMO People Stay Motivated Right Now?
- Knowledge Management and the PMO - Eileen Roden & Dr Judy Payne
- Learning Lessons the Hard Way
- Lessons Learnt About Lessons Learnt
- PMO and the Flow of Knowledge Between Projects
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Is it Time for PMOs to Admit Defeat with Lessons Learned Processes? - Martin Paver
- PMO through the Eyes of Strategy - Richard Hinwood
PMO Trends
- Challenges and Trends in a PMO Career
- Easing into Data Analytics \ PMO Trends for 2019
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ PMO 3.0 – The Digital PMO - Ralf Finchett
- PMO Music to Our Ears
- PMO Trends 2015-2016 - The Webinar
- The PMO Principles
- The Writings on the PMO Wall
- Top Ten Things PMO People Are Talking About Right Now
PMO Skills
- Book Review: Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers
- Emerging from Lockdown with PMO Flashmob
- Emotional and Personal Intelligence for PMO Professionals
- How to Document Meetings - A Guide for the PMO
- PMO - Carrot or Stick?
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Developing PMO Servant Leaders - Richard Hendrickse
- PMO Mini-Masterclass: Marketing the PMO
- PMO Music to Our Ears
Risk Management
Facilitation
Portfolio Management
- Agile Portfolio Management - Ed Holt & Barbara Roberts
- Beyond Portfolio Reporting - The Challenges and Reality of Portfolio Management
- From Crisis to Recovery: What the PMO Can Be Doing Now?
- Highly Visual Reporting (Sponsored Webinar)
- Improving Enterprise-Wide Portfolio Management
- Inside PMO Report \\ Portfolio Management
- Let It Simmer - A PMO Book Club Review
- PMO Career Portfolio
Coaching and Mentoring
Project Challenge
- Current Challenges in Resource Management by PMO Practitioners
- Developing Your PMO Career
- Eight Things PMOs Need to Know About Project Leadership
- Good Project Planners Are Like Gold Dust
- Plan Properly for Peak Project Performance
- PMO Flashmob at Project Challenge
- PMO Scars, Challenges and Career Highlights
- PPM Tools: The solution, or just another part of the problem?
Tools and Techniques
- A Thinking Tool for the PMO
- Benefits Management - A Thinking Tool for the PMO
- DARPEC for PMO
- Delivering Successful PMOs: A Greenfield PMO - Ray Mead
- Five Cool Tools for PMO
- Governance and Governmentality for Projects: The Role of the PMO - Dr Ralf Müller
- Hold On Tight for the PPM Tool Project
- Opening Keynote - Managing Your Organization Masterfully with Project Portfolio Management - Chris Garibaldi
Waterfall Methodology
Continuous Development
Assurance
Conflict Management
Governance
- Agile PMO - How Much is Enough?
- Agile Project Governance
- Governing the Programme Office - Michel Thiry
- Organisational Benefits Realisation Management - Carlos Serra
- PMO Agile Governance
- PMO and Project Delivery Transformation with Microsoft Project Online - Chris Ward & Gero Renker
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Governance, Agile and the PMO – Building a Relationship that Works - Barbara Roberts
- Speaking to Senior Executives
Leadership
- Eight Things PMOs Need to Know About Project Leadership
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Developing PMO Servant Leaders - Richard Hendrickse
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ The 6 Roles PMO Leaders Need to Play to Navigate Uncertain Waters - Bekka Prideaux
- PMO Leadership in a Chaotic World \\ Sept 2017
- PMOs Supporting Modern Project Management - Servant Leadership
PMO Roles
PMO Behaviours
- 2017 PMO Conference - Closing Keynote - Jez Rose
- Centre of Excellence; Delivering Value or Being Seen as an Overhead? - Henny Portman
- Emerging from Lockdown with PMO Flashmob
- People Power - Increasing the Effectiveness of Your PMO Through People - Donnie MacNicol
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Developing PMO Servant Leaders - Richard Hendrickse
- Project Resilience - What PMOs Could Learn
- Seven Habits Of Highly Effective PMO Managers
- Working Through PMO Behaviours
PMOwfh
Networking
Reporting
- Beyond Portfolio Reporting - The Challenges and Reality of Portfolio Management
- PMO and Project Delivery Transformation with Microsoft Project Online - Chris Ward & Gero Renker
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ How to Implement PPM Technology to Improve Your Organisational Project Management Maturity - Guy Jelley
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ The Lean-Agile PMO in Action - Lenka Wallace
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ The PMO Lifecycle – The Balanced PMO – Using Maturity Models and Dashboards to Track and Report Strategic and Project Value - Bill Dow
- PMOs - The Walking Talking Lessons Learnt
- The Reporting Chasm Between Execs and the PMO
- We Need to Talk About Status Reports
Sponsorship
Why Have a PMO?
Professional Development
PMO Case Study
- Case Study - Carnival - It’s a Hearts and Minds Thing.... - Kirsty Bennett
- PMO and Project Delivery Transformation with Microsoft Project Online - Chris Ward & Gero Renker
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Closing Keynote – PMO 3.0 – Digital PMO: Complexities, Customers, Canines and Bi-lingual Chickens - Ralf Finchett
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Delivering the Leeds City Region £200m Per Annum Portfolio – Digital Transformation for Governance and Collaboration - Gero Renker & Craig Taylor
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Growing a Greenfield PMO in a Media Forest - Sonia Sharma
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Our Caring PMO - Carol Hindley
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ The PMO Triple Constraint: Standardisation, Discipline and Visibility - Michael Reynders
- The Art of the Possible - Making the Difference When it Matters the Most: Virgin Atlantic ePMO
PMO Charters
Planning
- Good Project Planners Are Like Gold Dust
- Opening Keynote - The Business Driven PMO – Testing Your Convictions - Mark Price Perry
- Plan Properly for Peak Project Performance
- PMO Conference 2019 - Tomorrow’s status update today – planning your PMO’s route to insightful analytics - Pip Peel & Douglas Elliott
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Patterns of Strategy and Planning Execution Programmes - Patrick Hoverstadt
- PMO Town Hall or Old Folks Home
Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence and the PMO
- Cyril - The PMOBot
- Easing into Data Analytics \ PMO Trends for 2019
- Future PMO Today - Our Journey to Understanding AI
- Inside PMO \\ AI PMO – Threat or Opportunity?
- Is Project:Hack for the PMO Practitioner?
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Your New PMO Team Member, a Machine Learning Bot - Jordan Cram
- PMO Conference 2019 - Tomorrow’s status update today – planning your PMO’s route to insightful analytics - Pip Peel & Douglas Elliott
PMO Retrospectives
Robotic Process Automation
- Artificial Intelligence and the PMO
- Cyril - The PMOBot
- Future PMO Today - Our Journey to Understanding AI
- Inside PMO \\ AI PMO – Threat or Opportunity?
- Is Project:Hack for the PMO Practitioner?
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Your New PMO Team Member, a Machine Learning Bot - Jordan Cram
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ The Realities of Robotic Process Automation in the PMO - John McIntyre
- Project Data Analytics and the PMO
Inside PMO Report
PMO Maturity
- Beyond the Tricky Third Year - John McIntyre
- Evolving the PMO - October 2016
- Growing Up Faster – Using a Maturity (P3M3®) Model to Develop Organisational Capability - Tim Ellis
- Maturity in the PMO World
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ How to Implement PPM Technology to Improve Your Organisational Project Management Maturity - Guy Jelley
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ PMO: A Strategic Partner (in Crime) - Susie Palmer-Trew
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ The PMO Lifecycle – The Balanced PMO – Using Maturity Models and Dashboards to Track and Report Strategic and Project Value - Bill Dow
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Supporting and Facilitating the Highest Ever P3M3 Assessment – PMO 4.4 - Wajjahat Khan
Business Case
Decision Making
PMO Competency Framework
Project Hack
Setting Up a PMO
- Delivering Successful PMOs: A Greenfield PMO - Ray Mead
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Ella’s Kitchen’s Recipe for PMO Success - Ellen Jarret
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Growing a Greenfield PMO in a Media Forest - Sonia Sharma
- Project Excellence is Dead, Long Live the Tailor-Made PMO - Hans Arnbjerg
- Setting Up a PMO
- Setting Up a PMO
- The PMO as a Pop-Up Shop - Mertine Middelkoop
- The PMO Soap Opera
Stand Up For PMO
Closing a PMO
PMO Research
- Insights into the PMO Community
- Is the Modern PMO Achieveable?
- PMO Benchmark Report Just Launched
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ A Career in PMOs to Executive Management- MSc and DBA (Doctorate) in PMOs: The Missing Link - Dr Robert Joslin
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Opening Keynote – Pushing the Limits – Dr Robert Joslin
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ What Value is a PMO if There Are No Experts in Techniques and Tools? - Sabita Saleem
- PMO Learnings from the States
- PMO Notable Quoteables
PMO Books
Stakeholder Management
- Developing a Corporate PMO – How to Identify What Your Organisation Really Needs - Julie Black
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote – You Are Captain of Your Own Ship - Geoff Crane
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote Speaker - Next-Generation PMO: The Future of the PMO in a DANCE World - Jack S. Duggal
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Selling Your PMO to Internal Stakeholders - Neil Shorney
- Stakeholder Relationships and the Agile PMO
- The Clairvoyant PMO: How to Build the Support of the C-Suite
2016 PMO Conference
- Adapting a PMO for Agile Development - Sophie Coady
- Case Study - Carnival - It’s a Hearts and Minds Thing.... - Kirsty Bennett
- Case Study - Critical Success Factors – Creating a PMO Capability - Eddie Borup
- Centre of Excellence; Delivering Value or Being Seen as an Overhead? - Henny Portman
- Delivering Successful PMOs: A Greenfield PMO - Ray Mead
- Developing a Corporate PMO – How to Identify What Your Organisation Really Needs - Julie Black
- Governing the Programme Office - Michel Thiry
- Growing Up Faster – Using a Maturity (P3M3®) Model to Develop Organisational Capability - Tim Ellis
2017 PMO Conference
- 2017 PMO Conference - Closing Keynote - Jez Rose
- Agile Portfolio Management - Ed Holt & Barbara Roberts
- Beyond the Tricky Third Year - John McIntyre
- Drinking from the Source of Truth – how the Modern PMO Needs to Accept and Adopt Technology to Achieve its Goals - Dave Hurren & Kingsley Thomas
- Governance and Governmentality for Projects: The Role of the PMO - Dr Ralf Müller
- Involving the PMO in Project Stakeholder Engagement - Louise Worsley
- Knowledge Management and the PMO - Eileen Roden & Dr Judy Payne
- Opening Keynote - The Business Driven PMO – Testing Your Convictions - Mark Price Perry
2018 PMO Conference
- PMO and Project Delivery Transformation with Microsoft Project Online - Chris Ward & Gero Renker
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Agile into the Portfolio Mix. The End of Clarity? - Graham Pink, Robert Garbett & Karl Forbes
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Broadchurch or Death in Paradise? The PMO Tracking Benefit Delivery - Alex Clark
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Developing PMO Servant Leaders - Richard Hendrickse
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Governance, Agile and the PMO – Building a Relationship that Works - Barbara Roberts
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ How to Implement PPM Technology to Improve Your Organisational Project Management Maturity - Guy Jelley
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Is it Time for PMOs to Admit Defeat with Lessons Learned Processes? - Martin Paver
- PMO Conference 2018 \\ Keynote – Giving Data a Voice: Transforming Data into Actionable Insight Through Story - Lori Silverman
2019 PMO Conference
- PMO Conference \\ Transforming your PMO – the Agile Way! - Adam Skinner
- PMO Conference 2019 - Tomorrow’s status update today – planning your PMO’s route to insightful analytics - Pip Peel & Douglas Elliott
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ A Career in PMOs to Executive Management- MSc and DBA (Doctorate) in PMOs: The Missing Link - Dr Robert Joslin
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ A Roadmap for a Data Analytics Driven Future - Dr James Smith
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Agile: The Auditor’s Perspective - Stuart Bates
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Change Management Information & Tools for the PMO - Paul Clavering
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Closing Keynote – PMO 3.0 – Digital PMO: Complexities, Customers, Canines and Bi-lingual Chickens - Ralf Finchett
- PMO Conference 2019 \\ Delivering the Leeds City Region £200m Per Annum Portfolio – Digital Transformation for Governance and Collaboration - Gero Renker & Craig Taylor