PMO Flashmob is back in its regular monthly evening sessions – still virtual for now but hoping we’re back on the road soon. We kick off Autumn 2020 with a session focused on Scaled Agile – SAFe® and the PMO. It’s an Agile framework which a lot of PMO practitioners have taken an interest in so we thought it was ...

In a special event on Thursday 1st October to mark the Major Projects Association conference fringe, PMO Flashmob gets emotional. We’re delighted to have Geoff Crane join us to lead the session as we go beyond emotional intelligence to personal intelligence. Geoff is a great friend of PMO Flashmob and joined the PMO Conference back in 2018. Here’s a little ...

You might have heard the term ‘bimodal’ – adopted to demonstrate that the PMO supports both traditional waterfall projects and Agile-led projects. But that’s not the case, the term if anything should be ‘trimodal’ because the PMO is increasingly supporting DevOps too. DevOps is a combination of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) and is focused on continuous delivery. ...

Many of us are working from home right now – who knows for how long! We’ll be #PMOwfh for a while. PMO Flashmob and HotPMO will be hosting a weekly call for any PMO practitioner who is working from home – every Wednesday at 3pm until the 26th August. It’s a weekly escape from climbing the walls – an opportunity ...

PMO Flashmob is back on Thursday 25th June with an evening focused on Portfolio Management level PMO and specifically looking at improving the maturity levels of portfolio management within your delivery organisation. During the session, we’ll be looking at the 17 questions that need answers – 17 different areas that need consideration when looking to embed and improve portfolio management. ...

Technology continues to make advances that can be embraced or ignored (at least temporarily) by our PMOs. The latest bunch of technologies include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Machine Learning (ML) and Predictive Analytics (PA). Few PMOs have embedded these technologies, with many more not fully understanding what the technologies can do, but concerned by the scare stories ...