There’s a difference between knowing what the risks are and managing them, as Martin Vaughan discovers, and it’s up to PMOs to understand and guide others on how to handle risk in their overall strategy.
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Dr Lynda Bourne on the difficulties in quantifying the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities and establishing the return on investment for a new project management office.
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Because projects are temporary endeavours undertaken to create unique products, services or results, organisations have temporary resource requirements that need to be accommodated. But how can organisations avoid resource conflicts between operations and projects and among multiple projects? Guy Wilmington provides the answer.
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Many organisations have contemplated or implemented program management as a means of managing interrelated projects within their organisation, with varying degrees of success. PM Oracles asks, how do you know its value?
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The overlap between sustainability management and PMO functions shows that the two are not mutually exclusive, and merging the two could even prevent offices from being disbanded.
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Building project management capability goes beyond training and education, but are PMOs the answer?
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PM-Partners group today officially launched Australia’s first Project Management Office (PMO) Trend Survey to determine the depth of PMO maturity and relevance in Australian organisations.
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Putting the ‘S’ in your PMO can play a key role in both increasing the value of the PMO and your organisation—it’s just a matter of taking ownership.
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It takes more than ingredients to create a meal, and it takes more than resources to manage a project. You need to have standards (cooking temperature), documentation (recipes), guidance (cooking shows), economies of repetition (making meals every day), and metrics (your taste testers). Your kitchen is the project management office (PMO) of your meals.
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One of the more challenging aspects of providing portfolio summary reporting is getting consistency across projects, particularly when they cross geographic and cultural borders.
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