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New PMO Competency Framework Launched by House of PMO

The House of PMO, a professional body for PMO professionals has today launched the first-ever PMO Competency Framework written by the profession for the profession. The PMO Competency Framework is a guide for PMO professionals interested in assessing and developing organisation-wide, team and personal competences within a PMO environment. The guidance within the PMO Competency […]

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New Professional Body for PMO Professionals Launched

Insights, News, PMO

The House of PMO, a new professional body for PMO professionals was launched today by Lindsay Scott and Eileen Roden – the team behind the PMO Flashmob and The PMO Conference. The House of PMO (HoPMO), headquartered in the UK with an international reach, creates a home for PMO professionals where they can develop themselves,

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IT Project Teams are STILL driving competitive advantage

Insights, Leadership, PMO, Programme Management

IT Projects are perfectly placed to shape the future of business as we emerge from this pandemic

Businesses need to be leaner and more innovative.

It’s time for IT Project teams to say, “Hold our coffee, watch us do our thing” – this is our moment.

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All I need is a PPM tool and a PMO, right?

PMO, Programme Management

All of us work in organisations that have resources deployed to deliver our mission – be that delivering construction projects, developing software, providing education services – all sorts. Some are delivered as services, some as projects, some as assets or products. None of us can stand still. We are all driven to do more with

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How to Effectively set up an IT EPMO

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IT is the major component of most company-wide initiatives. The changes made to the IT structure directly affect other information systems like marketing and sales due to their dependence on innovative technology. Global project management leaders are starting to regroup their IT strategy in order to successfully deliver on their business strategy. Consequently, several organisations

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Bubble Ltd, achieves global ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system.

Insights, News, PM Software, PMO, Programme Management

Cambridge, United Kingdom: 9th January 2018 Bubble, a leading provider of cloud-based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced that it has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 security certification (ISO 27001), one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. The ISO 27001 designation formally confirms the company adheres to legal, physical,

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7 Reasons why IT Project Managers were born to blog

Careers, Insights, Leadership, PMO, Programme Management

“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it quite enjoyable, I wrote a second and then a third. I got some nice feedback, got shared, had a

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How to waste less on IT projects

Insights, PMO, Programme Management

Reading The Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2017 Pulse of the Profession report something jumped out and really grabbed my attention. It’s something that should be celebrated. As a profession, the Project Management industry is less wasteful. Specifically, more projects are achieving original goals. they’re coming in within budget and they are aligned with business strategy.

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Everything You Need to Know About the PMO Conference in London this June

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The PMO Conference is back for a third year this summer at St Paul’s in London – and over 400 PMO practitioners come together to gain great inspiration and ideas to push their PMO and their careers forward. Will you be amongst them? The PMO Conference gives you 19 hours of new PMO content, spread

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From Zero to Hero: Four Ways to Stop PMO Failure in Its Tracks

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Its not just Dilbert cartoons where projects are doomed before they begin. Real-life PMOs are no stranger to failure. In the past three years, PMI research found that 75 percent of Project Management Offices closed or failed to add value. Yet, while project success metrics are less than optimistic, effective project management can deliver tremendous

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