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What are the gaps in project management, specifically in PMO implementation? How to close these gaps? These are a couple of the key questions that we have been addressing in this series of articles on PMO Implementation, OPM, and the project management office in general. Over the last few days (these are old articles that...

In the last few posts, we have focused on PMO (project management office) and PMO Implementation. Here is what we published so far: What is a PMO and how to differentiate between PMOs? Eight possible functions of a PMO: the PMO Continuum Why some PMO fails or are challenged? In today’s article, we share a...

Why some (or maybe many) Project Management Offices, PMO fails? What are the gaps in PMO implementation that could be contributing to their failures? What is the organizational impact? Why a failed PMO might damage project management in the organization or at least dilute its value? Many questions we are posing here to open the discussion. For...

What are the possible PMO functions? In the context of this article, a PMO can be a project or a program management office. Today, we discuss eight possible functions along the PMO Continuum. In the previous article we established: The PMO, typically, is for the organization and not for one project or program The PMO,...

What is a PMO? Is it a Project Management Office, Program Management Office, or something else? How to differentiate between the different types of PMOs? In this article, we are shedding some lights on the emerging (or growing trend) of something called PMO. This is the first article on PMOs and there will be more. This is...

This article is a follow-up on two prior posts that we published recently. It is also in response to various online exchanges on the topic of Accidental Project Manager. The previous articles were: Are you an accidental project manager? and Are you an accidental project manager? My wife is.

If you read our last article and you are reading this article now good news and welcome back to a fun article. So, are you an accidental project manager? In the last article we talked about the accidental project manager and we explained that the term is not offensive at all; if it was offensive, my...

Are you an accidental project manager?

Are you an accidental project manager? I hope that no one gets offended by this term since the use of this term in our view is not offensive at all, rather it reflects a common reality. It is for those non-project managers who are asked and expected to manage projects. However, if anyone objects to the...