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Professional Services Industry Fundamentals

ProjectManager.com

PMO Professional Services: A project management office (PMO) can be embedded or independent, such as a PMO as a service (PMOaaS). Common embedded services are similar to those of the independent variety, only in-house, but they can also include IT support, human resources and project managers.

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The Challenge of Building a PMO: Why Experience Matters

The IIL Blog

By The PMO Squad August 21, 2024 Building a Project Management Office (PMO) is a complex endeavor, often underestimated in its scope and challenges. Many organizations task leaders who have never built a PMO before with this monumental responsibility. This frequently leads to suboptimal outcomes and even outright failure.

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The PMO Game Changer: A Value-Driven Project Resource Management

The Lazy Project Manager

Project resource management by PMO has changed significantly in the last 20 years. It can potentially become a key component of business profitability and sustainability. How Value-Driven Resource Management can be a Game Changer for the PMO? But in the last few years, a PMO has started evolving into a value centre.

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The Art Behind Becoming a Strategic PMO Leader

Planview

Unlock the strategies to overcome key PMO hurdles—mastering resource management, driving change, and streamlining processes—with expert insight from Athena Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management. With over 15 years of knitting experience, she also dyes yarn sustainably and is a novice weaver.

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Sustain Your PMO: Nine Easy Lessons

The Lazy Project Manager

As has been already discussed the reality out there in ‘PMO land’ is that there is not a plethora of wise and experienced PMO managers, directors, leaders, heads, etc., and so it is sensible for anyone who is engaged to help an organisation set up a new PMO or advise on improvements to an existing PMO to reach out for some help.

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The Transforming Dynamics of Project Management’s Future

The IIL Blog

This balance will be key to achieving effective and sustainable strategic value realization. Many companies today conduct a study every year or two to identify the four or five strategic career paths in the company that must be cultivated so that the growth of the firm is sustainable. The PMO has to transform.

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The Balanced PMO

The Lazy Project Manager

The same is true of the PMO. A balanced approach will definitely pay dividends and will not only ensure that the PMO is as effective and efficient as possible but will also aid the acceptance of the PMO by the rest of the organisation. Far better is to prevent the fires from even starting. P = Process. P = Promotion.

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