The webinar took place on Apr 30, 2019.
We explored many questions and themes – and had interactive discussions doing deep-dives on some of the questions.
These themes and questions included (see below the video for minute-by-minute breakdown if you’d like to jump directly to your favourite questions):
- Management unsure about project management and quality management practices and perhaps a PMO can be the guide (from 00:00)
- Stakeholders not cooperating and supporting the PMO team and all issues stakeholders facing are funneled to the PMO (from 04:20)
- Meeting different expectations from different stakeholders
(from 04:20) - New PM in a recently created PMO where processes aren’t followed and PMO hasn’t really been accepted by IT/Business departments
(from 09:14) - Senior management has sales background with limited experience in operations and all operations teams are affected due to bad processes in support departments
(from 14:30) - Challenge in getting buy-in for a business development (BD) function/department (from 19:06)
- Workload management (from 24:37)
- Finding a job (from 29:14)
- Where does the change management office sit? who should oversee it? (from 32:40)
- As a PMO, what’s the best metrics of project to track? (from 43:33)
- There are many different types and categories of PMOs such as:
- IT, enterprise, construction, customer service PMOs
- portfolio, program, project PMOs
- strategic PMOs
- supportive, controlling, directive PMOs
- so what are different types and different categories of PMOs that could be setup and implement? (from 48:03)
- What’re your thoughts on organisation strategy implementation and PMO interaction? Can we state PMO as a “hands” for strategy implementation assurance, support, etc.? What’s your insights here?(from 51:56)
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