The books that sit on a lot of PMO professional's shelves, those staples that we delve into time and time again
- Business Driven PMO Set Up
- Delivering Successful PMOs - Taylor & Mead
- Let it Simmer – Making Project, Portfolio and Program Management Practices Stick in a Skeptical Organisation
- Portfolio and Programme Management Demystified - Geoff Reiss
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O)
- Project Management (Essential Managers)
- Starting Out in Project Management - Simon/Murray-Webster
- The DNA of Strategy Execution: Next Generation Project Management and PMO
The books we use when we want to know the theory behind PMO and the best way to implement and run them
- Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change - Bradley
- Gower Handbook of People in Project Management
- Management of Portfolios
- Managing benefits: optimizing the return from investments - Jenner
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
- PMO Competency Framework - House of PMO
- Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O)
- Praxis Framework
A popular theme for anyone working in PMO today, take a look at the books that are broaden your PMO peer's horizons
- Agile Lineout - A Framework for Non-Tech Teams
- Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
- Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- From PMO to VMO: Managing for Value Delivery
- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects
- Project to Product: How Value Stream Networks Will Transform IT and Business - Kersten
- Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Organizational Agility: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility
Looking for great reads that get you thinking differently about work, behaviour and skills? Get some inspiration from recommended reads
- Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
- Conflicted: Why Arguments Are Tearing Us Apart and How They Can Bring Us Together
- Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst - Rick Kirschner
- Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results
- Getting to Yes - Without Giving In (Negotiation) - Roger Fisher
- Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions, and Outcomes for a Better World - Pratt
- Noise
- Project Psychology
There are thousands of books on management and leadership, check out the ones which have inspired your PMO peers.
- Advising Upwards: A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders
- Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
- Business Driven PMO Set Up
- Delivering Successful PMOs - Taylor & Mead
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The People Skills You Need to Achieve Outstanding Results
- First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
- First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently - James Harter
The PMO provides many different services to the organisation, on this shelf we hope to inspire you with different service areas
- [Lessons Learnt] Learning Lessons from Projects - Ken Burrell
- [Risk] Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Benefit Realisation Management: A Practical Guide to Achieving Benefits Through Change - Bradley
- Managing benefits: optimizing the return from investments - Jenner
- Managing Knowledge in Project Environments - Payne, Roden & Simister
- Measure What Matters: OKRs - Doerr
- PMO Service Catalogue - Stuart Dixon
- Project Management Checklists For Dummies
Workshops, meetings, gatherings - when the PMO brings people together to collaborate we need inspiration
Browse the career shelf to see what other PMO professionals have enjoyed reading and what has helped in their careers.