Starting a PMO is a project in its own right. In our own experience and in feedback discussions we have had with many project management...
Lessons on project governance from the CBA scandal
The CBA financial scandal is a classic example of the effect of setting the wrong performance targets. If your measurement systems focus...
Valuing project procedures
I am frequently asked to quantify the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities or how to establish the...
Sustainability and the PMO
The overlap between sustainability management and PMO functions shows that the two are not mutually exclusive, and merging the two could...
Strategy and the PMO
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...
Global project reporting for PMOs
One of the more challenging aspects of providing portfolio summary reporting is getting consistency across projects, particularly when...
Risk management under PMO governance
Disasters are generally unpredictable but an advanced PMO may be able to assist governance by raising risk management to the next level....
PMO health check for projects
Tears flowed down the sponsor’s face. The health specialist said, “It’s time, you have to let him go”. They gazed down at the patient...
Delivering value in a PMO
The phone call from the finance department went something like: “Geoff, the program seems likely to spend its entire budget for this...
PMOs in Asia: The New Frontier
Project management is moving through Asia with the speed and tenacity of a raging bushfire. I have recently been working my way through...









