How to maintain a robust stage gate process for ’lighter’ projects, but make it less onerous? Is there anything beyond the standard options of removing gates or consolidating gates? How to get around the problem that if everything in a stage gate checklist is required how would you determine the nonessential?
Read MoreI have been writing about PMO in a fairly technical way, and will continue to write posts to explain to myself what works and why. Also how. But today I'm concerned with the emotion underlying the drive to have a project environment that is the best it can be for a given organisation.
Read MoreWe tend to laugh at the antique maps displayed in museums. They seem the work of a child. Well, it's time to access your inner child because your maps of the project environment will not have the help of any equivalent satellite or surveyor. Like the ancients, you will be relying on the stories of travellers and sailor's tales. However, just like the maps of the ancients, they will be incredibly valuable.
Read MoreI have outlined a working concept of PMO that I trust that we can use to build a basic PMO framework, in the posts that follow. The framework will be flexible enough to allow any type of PMO, and any practitioner, to optimise the particular setup they find themselves in.
Read MoreRight now standards will not help settle the uncertainty around a definition of a PMO and will not necessarily help you to run one. Comprehensive treatments of PMO (like P3O) are definitely worth knowing, in the same way that a PMO practitioner should be very familiar with the PMBOK.
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