Archive for February, 2012

Project Management Office Leading Change  Pre-Workshop: 25. June.2012 Conference: 26.-27. June 2012 Hotel Pullman Berlin Schweizerhof Berlin, GERMANY www.pmo-symposium.com A wide range of external and internal factors are forcing corporations to take strategic decisions. Enterprises must react to the volatility of global markets with foresight and need the capability of strategic positioning. The Project Management Office (PMO) plays a key...
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1.    Introduction Last month, I raised the following challenge: How would you recommend addressing the following issue that is common in internal projects in enterprises that are not project-based:  The objective is: “to use internal technical personnel as resources on internal improvement projects, without jeopardizing day-to-day operations”.  The situation is as follows: projects need predictable availability of...
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CIOs spend much of their time identifying the right strategies for IT implementations, which invariably morph into projects and programmes. A company’s ability to implement or execute these efforts, which are often large and quite visible, is what distinguishes success from failure. CIOs too frequently get off track while attempting to keep their fingers on...
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As Chris Walters writes in the foreword to my new book ‘Leading Successful PMOs’ (Gower) – ‘The role of the PMO leader is one for a particular breed of individual. Be clear: this is a very senior position in any organisation that takes project delivery seriously – the days of co-ordinating project administrators are over. PMO...
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