PMO Flashmob – The Networking Group for PMOs

PMO Flashmob is all about meeting up with others who work in PMO and chatting about PMO stuff. We all know that people have different places to go for new knowledge – and if you’re working in PMO, you’ll know its a continual learning process! We thought for the fifth birthday in the pub we would try out the PMO ...

The PMO as a Facilitator is coming to Manchester on the 13th Sept. This Mini-Masterclass event is focused on facilitation skills – a skill every PMO professional should have. In this session we specifically focus on the planning side of facilitation. Whats it all about? The planning is an incredibly important part of facilitation, as that’s where the thinking has to ...

Coaching has often been identified as a key skill for PMO professionals. It’s long been mentioned in job advertisements as “coaching and mentoring skills” and more recently with the PMO supporting Agile delivery approaches, the term ‘coaching’ is heard more frequently. What does that actually mean?  Coaching is surrounded in misconceptions and in this session, we’ll be debunking some myths ...

On the 17th May, I attended my first PMO Flashmob, the event on this occasion was more specifically known as PMO Serious Play, held in Manchester. The idea behind this session is to learn and explore the mindsets and behaviours of the PMO supporting Agile based projects and programmes through playing with Lego. Upon arrival, at the event, I received ...

We headed over to Bristol last month, lovely weather to be tucked up inside learning about Agile Project Governance but definitely worth it. There were so many little gems I took away and I know that other PMO Flashmobbers there on the night had a lot of their questions answered. Essentially we were all there to find out what exactly ...

We’ve been running a competition for the last week or so to be in with a chance of winning a PMO Conference ticket which takes place on the 13th June in London. If you’ve missed the newsletters or you’ve not been signed up on the website before now, here’s your chance to get involved. Our first winner! It always makes ...