about the workshop

This workshop aims to aid all would-be and current PMO leaders. As a PMO leader myself, five greenfield PMOs developed in the last 15 years) I know that this can be a really rewarding experience, but not an easy one to find the right line to balance the projects and the business demands.

The workshop is about successfully leading a PMO (whatever you understand by those three letters) to deliver better projects, better business to the customers of those projects and greater success to the organisation that you work for. As well as to best serve the contributing project managers from both a professional and a personal perspective.

The workshop will explore some of the research carried out by myself in ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower) and ‘Delivering Successful PMOs’ (Gower). The books bring together the experience and views of PMO leaders from around the world and the project managers that work within the PMOs, as well as those who are now seeking brilliant leaders for their PMOs.

Together in the workshop we will identify what it is that successful PMO leaders have and do that allows them to be successful and how the rest of us can learn from those proven experiences.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will learn more about the sorts of PMO that can be adopted and the styles of operation and management. The workshop aims to aid participants in learning how to grow a PMO to enterprise level or how to re-energise a PMO within an organisation.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

💡 Understand the meaning and purpose of a successful PMO

💡 Understand what makes a PMO successful (and equally what made some PMOs unsuccessful)

💡 Appreciate the 5 basic types of PMO

💡 Recognise the 4 operational modes of PMO

💡 Explore the ‘Balanced PMO’ concept

💡 Take the ‘PMO pulse’ of their PMO and identify areas for improvement

💡 Design a PMO that their organisation really needs