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An Interesting week ahead

Next week looks to be very interesting. I've not written much in the last month because I really haven't done much PMO work. I've been writing Plan documents, so you can imagine how much I want to come home and write more. One of the reasons I'm falling... Read more...

Hired Guns and the Aspirin Solution

A great PMO can not be built from a template. Each PMO is a project. There are many different techniques that can be used. As the PMO manager, you are the cook, architect, conductor for this unique entity. Pick what is best for you. Introduce at... Read more...

2 New projects

I've been overwhelmed lately with life things - new job, new house, moving, packing, packing, packing, moving - resting from about killing myself since I am clearly not 20-years old any longer - or even 30 0r - oh well you get the idea.So, my two new... Read more...

Quick thoughts on a PMI research paper on PMOs

I just finished my first reading of a great study titled: The Multi-Project PMO: A Global Analysis of the Current State of Practice. I recommend that you take the time to look this over. There are a lot of interesting findings. It will take a while to... Read more...

Band-Aids and Merry-go-rounds

As I child I had a lot of experience with both of these. I assume everyone is familiar with band-aids, the merry-go-round I’m referring to is the kind you find on a playground. These are basically a large dish parallel to the ground mounted on a central... Read more...

Lessons Learned – why don’t we learn from them?

Still thinking about lessons learned and my biggest question is why don’t we learn from them?Here is the situation that has come up to make me think again. My current program has a weekly meeting with the Governance board. We quickly review the status... Read more...

Culture Clash

Thushara wrote an interesting question in a recent post copied below:"When you are a flat organization and when you got to deal with a very hierarchical customer organization with lots of bureaucracy .How do you manage the communication channels as a... Read more...

Week 27 - Change

This week I inherited the responsibility of rolling up all of the IT status reports into IT release level reports – which then in turn go into the Program level report (along with the Business status). Now, I have been doing the program level reports,... Read more...

Week 25 (Building a PMO) - Lessons Learned? - Process

In project management, we generally group our processes under the heading of “methodology.” For some reason, I think methodology brings a more formal connotation than process. Either way you slice it, the way we do our work is what those of us in... Read more...

Week 24 (Building a PMO) - Lessons Learned?

If I take the lessons learned from last week and look at them, I think we can logically divide them into 3 categories – People, Processes, and Tools. These are the building blocks of every organization or project. There is a lot of overlap in these... Read more...

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