PMO Sausage Factories and Feeding the Beast

Posted by Lindsay Scott on Jan 28, 2022 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

Last week I hosted another APM PMO World Cafe for the PMOSIG . I wrote about hosting a World Cafe in a previous post. Not only is it a great way to get people talking, it can also be a real eye opener of what can come out in sixty minutes. In this session (the image below captures three main points on each topic area) I enjoyed chats about, “could technology replace the people in the PMO?” After a resounding no in all three sessions we got onto key areas in a PMOs work where technology could play a bigger and better part. We talk about the current situation in a lot of organisations where the PMO spends a large proportion of their time just “feeding the beast” . By being the group that provides monthly metrics and reports on project status or programme progress have we made a rod for our own backs with the sheer amount of time required to get this accurate and meaningful?

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PMO Sausage Factories and Feeding the Beast