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Showing posts with label PMO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PMO. Show all posts
Monday, September 22, 2014

Dear PM Advisor. Sep 22, 2014

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Dear PM Advisor In a small company where the PMO is absent, what should be the role for Project Manager? Alone in Lahore Dear Alone, ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 18

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This is week 18 and we still haven't finished any of the projects we started with. I was shocked but the CEO was happy to see what he su...
Friday, June 13, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 17

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This week we encountered a problem within the interdependencies of one group of projects. Many projects were modules within a large platfor...
Friday, June 6, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 16

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This week we were able to pull together a consolidated schedule for all the IT development projects and could take a first look at the resou...
Friday, May 30, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 15

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I'm the first to admit that my lack of bandwidth has stalled the efforts of my team. I am only able to steal myself away from my current...
Friday, May 23, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 14

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No steering committee meeting this week so my team could focus on getting the Master Gantt chart together. Let's hope they pull it off t...
Friday, May 16, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 13

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During my weekly PMO meeting I apologized to my team for allowing them to be criticized by the CEO for not being prepared. I promised I woul...
Friday, May 9, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 12

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With my wife undergoing a medical procedure and the CEO in California, I thought it was safe to cancel the steering committee meeting this w...
Friday, May 2, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 11

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"With all the training behind us, it's time to get into maintenance mode," I thought as I entered this week's steering com...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 10

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This week our Wednesday PMO meeting was another quick one. I hate to waste the time of my team. We talked about our progress against the pla...
Friday, April 18, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 9

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We held our first official Steering Committee meeting this Friday with good results. Below was the Agenda: Cancel Complete Projects Add ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 8

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Great week! We finally prioritized all our projects. Here's how we did it: Sarah collected all the project names from the functional ...
Friday, April 4, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 7

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As often happens, work on actual projects gets in the way of creating the PMO. I was heads down all week getting my new project through a cr...
Friday, March 28, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 6

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We held the first steering committee meeting. This was designed to come to agreement about the rules of our committee, set up monthly meetin...
Friday, March 21, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 5

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This week we worked on more of the templates and Mike got the change control system working within SharePoint. I started choosing members ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 4

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Now that we have our schedule in place, we have been working well towards that plan. Sarah and Mike are cranking out templates for use by th...
Friday, March 7, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 3

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Now that we have a mission , it's time to determine how to put this into practice. I did a bit of research and found an excellent site t...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 2

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The creation of the PMO is not my full-time job. I am still working on projects, making sales calls and staying on top of our operations. B...
Friday, February 21, 2014

PMO Creation - Week 1

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While I've been the head of Project Management at my company for the last 13 years, the owner has not wanted the 'bureaucracy' o...