by Lindsay Scott | May 24, 2023 | PMO, Facilitation, PPM
We love the idea of a PMO summer school! Traditionally summer schools are run by educational establishments when regular school hours are over for the summer. Learners often use them to ‘continue learning, explore new subjects, catch up on missed coursework, or...
by Lindsay Scott | Sep 15, 2020 | PMO, Facilitation
Facilitation skills are something that every PMO practitioner should have – apart from it being a great service offering to the many meetings; workshops; reviews; retrospectives; premortems – and any other collaborative event you can think of –...
by Lindsay Scott | Aug 21, 2020 | Facilitation, PMO
There is a popular phrase that sums up project management, the four Ps – product, process, projects and of course people. It’s the four combined that makes effective project management. The people element is arguably the hardest to get right – managing teams;...
by Lindsay Scott | Jul 30, 2020 | Facilitation, PMO
There’s a bit in the P3O® guidance that states: To be successful, programme and projects require a shared understanding of their objectives, teamwork and effective decision-making. Programme and project decisions by their nature are contributed to by groups of...
by Lindsay Scott | Jun 18, 2020 | Agile, Facilitation, Lean-Agile PMO, PMO
We recently launched a new half-day course – The PMO’s Guide to Effective Agile Retrospectives – first course coming up at the beginning of July. The course is designed for those PMO practitioners who are working more and more with Agile teams in...
by Lindsay Scott | Mar 26, 2019 | Facilitation
Relative Prioritising and Sizing That’s the great thing about a lot of the facilitation models, techniques and approaches – they’re simple to make it easier for people to get the concept quickly and then work on the real job at hand –...
