The PMO Competency Framework is a guide for PMO professionals interested in assessing and developing organisation-wide, team and personal competences within a PMO environment.

The guidance within the PMO Competency Framework can be used by any PMO professional to assess their current knowledge and experience; to identify skills gaps and development needs and to benchmark themselves against a professional PMO standard.

The PMO Competency Framework is a career companion guide, to assist PMO professionals through the rewarding, challenging and continuously evolving profession that PMO has become.

Lindsay Scott, co-founder of House of PMO said:

“The PMO Competency Framework features the different types of PMOs that exist today which makes it a really useable career resource regardless of what type of PMO you work in. It’s also applicable for anyone at any level of their career – for Administrators, Analysts, Managers and Directors. We really have focused on making it accessible to all.”

The PMO Competency Framework has been created by PMO professionals for PMO professionals, developed over a three year period by the volunteer PMO community at PMO Flashmob.

Drawing on collective experience from a wide range of PMO professionals from around the world, the new Framework was developed to improve standards in PMO professional development and support those wishing to develop in their roles.

The first edition of the PMO Competency Framework has been edited by Eileen J Roden, Carol Hindley and Lindsay Scott:

Today Eileen Roden, co-founder of House of PMO said:

“We couldn’t have done it without the community support, it’s been a long journey and sometimes difficult journey to pull it all together, and a real example of standing on the shoulders of giants to get to today’s launch.”

The PMO Competency Framework is now available to purchase from Amazon.

With the release of the PMO Competency Framework, the House of PMO is also launching new professional development standards based on the Framework.  Examination body, APMG International – a global accreditation and examination institute – will be assessing learners and providing the examinations for the new certifications. Successful candidates will be awarded a digital badge which can be shared on social media and email signatures. The courses, which accompany the certifications, will be available for Accredited Training Organisations (ATOs) to deliver from May 2021.

Richard Pharro, CEO APMG International said,

“For too long the PMO community have been poorly served with no direct recognition of their capabilities and contribution to the successful delivery of projects and programmes. The House of PMO changes that with a clear focus on their professional and career development. APMG are delighted to help them realise this ambition.”

Eileen Roden added,

“With this new body of work, the PMO profession can take another step forward to maturity by providing clarity on the requirements and expectations of the key roles within the profession, both now and as they continue to develop and evolve.”

The House of PMO, headquartered in the UK with an international reach, creates a home for PMO professionals where they can develop themselves, support the development of others and contribute to the development of the PMO profession. Further information about the work the House of PMO are carrying out can be found at www.houseofpmo.com

About the editors –
Eileen Roden – Eileen is the author of Portfolio, Programmes and Project Offices (P3O), co-author of Managing Knowledge in Project Environments and The PMO Principles. As well as being an experienced PMO Manager, she is also a respected PMO trainer and consultant.

Carol Hindley – Carol is an experienced PMO Manager, currently engaged at the Houses of Parliament as the Head of Digital PMO.

Lindsay Scott – is the co-founder of the House of PMO, editor of the People in Project Management Handbook and creator of the PMO Conference.

About APMG – APMG International is a global examination institute that offers a portfolio of professional certifications for knowledge-based workers. APMG certifications are designed to provide professional career development for individuals, equipping them with the skills, knowledge, tools and techniques to help them and their organizations perform more effectively.

In addition, APMG provides accreditation services for individuals and organisations around the world that provide high-quality training and consultancy services in support of our certifications.

Committed to quality, APMG’s certification and accreditation processes are developed and managed in accordance with a robust quality management system accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). www.apmg-international.com

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The House of PMO (HoPMO), headquartered in the UK with an international reach, creates a home for PMO professionals where they can develop themselves, support the development of others and contribute to the development of the PMO profession.

The House of PMO is launching new professional development standards based on the forthcoming PMO Competency Framework and the redeveloped Project and Programme Support Office (PPSO) Essentials and Advanced Practitioner certifications acquired from the British Computer Society’s (BCS) today.

Eileen Roden, co-founder of the House of PMO said:

“It’s great to be able to further develop these respected certifications in line with the continuingly evolving PMO profession, and broaden their availability to a wider audience.”

The new professional body will continue to provide a membership based community platform, arranging networking opportunities through the already established PMO Flashmob. With over 7000 members today, PMO Flashmob is an informal networking and learning community, bringing professionals together to help develop themselves. The House of PMO will also continue the annual conference, The PMO Conference, now in its seventh year.

Lindsay Scott, co-founder of the House of PMO said this today about the new professional body:

“There are a lot of PMO professionals out there in the workplace who are doing great work supporting projects, programmes and portfolios and we wanted to do something to help them develop effectively, such as having a recognised standard and training programme; having access to the latest research studies and the sharing of success stories. Today is the first step, with lots planned to help us realise our vision of establishing PMO as a profession.”

The House of PMO is committed to annually reinvesting a minimum of 30% of pre tax profits into the development of PMO as a profession and with a new membership structure, it will be the members who decide how this money is spent.

“It’s crucial that PMO professionals continue to shape the future of their own profession and the House of PMO provides an inclusive and organised way to do just that” Lindsay Scott said, adding “We can’t wait to get started in making it happen”

The new professional development standards are launched in April 2021 with the PMO Competency Framework being launched mid-February 2021.

www.houseofpmo.com

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Alongside the full project management exhibition there are sessions available in four zones at the expo – solutions, masterclass, learning and controls. Attendees are free to choose sessions throughout both days. Sessions include recently announced:

For more information and announcements on new sessions – visit www.projchallenge.com

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Will you be amongst them?

The PMO Conference gives you 19 hours of new PMO content, spread across four streams from 23 inspirational speakers. Can’t decide what to see on the day? All delegates receive the full video set of presentations from the PMO Conference to watch back at the office.

The PMO Conference also features the PMO Exhibition – the largest ever in the UK with 23 organisations showcasing PMO products and services to help you and your organisation push your PMO on.

The PMO Conference is a full on day – kicking off at 8am in the morning with breakfast networking and expo, the main keynote starts at 9am.

Mark Price Perry, the world renowned PMO author of the Business Driven PMO, brings his energy and passion to kick-start the day and challenge you to Test Your Convictions.

You then have a choice of sessions that take you up to the lunch break – choose themes such as managing stakeholders; Agile PMO; portfolio management or listen to a PMO case study – real stories from the trenches.

Lunchtime gives you chance to get back into the expo – pick up the latest in products and services happening in the PMO area. Take time to connect with other PMO practitioners or browse the bookshop.

Not looking forward to the post lunch slump as the afternoon session gets underway?

We’ve got it covered with four fast paced, innovation, even controversial PMO Flash Talks – you’ll leave the session energised ready for the next two sessions. Choose from themes that cover PMO governance; strategy; innovation or further case studies from real PMO practitioners.

We finish the day with brain tricks and behaviour fixes to achieve extraordinary results, inspiring everyone to find the gap between stimulus and response and be the best they can be.

An energising and inspiring end to the PMO Conference.

But don’t forget, you take away all the presentation sessions with your 19 session video pack – perfect for catching up on the sessions you couldn’t make – and sharing them with the team back at the office.

Make sure you are at the UK’s premier PMO event of the year this June in Central London.

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This year’s PMO Conference features 4 streams and 22 sessions all aimed at the PMO practitioner audience.

Sessions include;

• Opening Keynote – Managing Your Organization Masterfully with Project Portfolio Management
• The Integrative Role of a PMO
• Case Study – Critical Success Factors – Creating a PMO Capability
• The Learning PMO
• People Power – Increasing the Effectiveness of Your PMO Through People
• The 40 Do’s and Do Not’s of Portfolio Management
• The Role of the PMO in Change
• Delivering Successful PMOs: A Greenfield PMO
• Centre of Excellence; Delivering Value or Being Seen as an Overhead?
• How Do You Know If Your PMO Is Performing the Right Functions or Are Some Changes Needed?
• Developing a Corporate PMO – How to Identify What Your Organisation Really Needs
• Resource Management – The Role of the PMO
• Growing Up Faster – Using a Maturity (P3M3®) Model to Develop Organisational Capability
• The PMO as a Pop-Up Shop
• Organisational Benefits Realisation Management

Speakers are drawn from the United States, Canada, Europe and the UK. We’ll feature the latest research, though leadership, case studies from practitioners and sessions that focus on the practices of the PMO.

The PMO Conference also features a small select PMO exhibition of solutions and services, available to visit throughout the day.

Consider joining us and 300 other PMO Practitioners this year in London, registration is now open.

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The Project Management Benchmark Report (PMBR) 2016 shows how the UK’s economic turbulence is affecting project management practitioners’ earnings, aspirations and professional life.

Having entered 2015 with some green shoots of recovery after ‘the great recession’; further global impacts appear to have stunted some of the optimism and growth as issues in China, the EU and the impact of the war in Syria all played their part. On the upside low inflation and falling oil prices meant that even with low pay rises most of the respondent’s maintained their standard of living.

Against this backdrop, Arras People have once again taken the opportunity to take the temperature of the Project Management domain in the eleventh annual Benchmark Report.

Some of the highlights of the PMBR include;

• Employee remuneration did not show any significant inflation busting rises in 2015, with 29% seeing no increase and 38% seeing 2% or less. The only practitioners who saw significant increases were those who moved jobs, in this group 45% achieved increase >2% and 26% achieved >8% to get ahead in the pay rise stakes.
• Demographics of the profession continue to see a worrying trend as the practitioner group continues to age. The numbers of practitioners under 34 years of age has consistently fallen since the 2008 recession. At the same time “age discrimination” is still seen as an issue for older practitioners looking for a new role.
• Organisations looking to hire are seeing more “availability” issues as they seek to fill open positions. It is difficult to say if this is a ‘skills shortage’ as practitioner churn remains low as they still lack confidence in the UK economy moving into 2016.
• Contractors see Government legislation as biggest threat in to their livelihood as they move into 2016. Contractors see the ongoing attacks as negative, with some looking to remove themselves from the flexible workforce. Others suggest that their day rates will have to rise further to compensate for the changes in order to maintain their standards of living

John Thorpe, Managing Director of Arras People commented, “Once again we have had great support from the Global Project Management community which has enabled us to create this highly respected report on the project management profession.”

“The current report underlines the fact that programme and project management is still evolving and facing more challenges as new techniques and technologies are introduced and championed in the workplace. Agile approaches are very much in the news, though it too does not appear to be the ‘silver bullet’ which will guarantee project success. People, the most important ingredient in the successful delivery of projects are also offering a challenge as we look to integrate the Millennial’s in the workplace alongside the Baby Boomers and those of GenX and Y. Different outlooks, character traits and expectations all add to the challenges of integration as does the desire of the younger generations to move away from ‘command and control’ to one of empowerment. The perceived lack of a return on investment from the millions of pounds spent on the old ways certainly leaves the door open to the new ways of thinking. All of which makes PPM a great melting pot of ideas and initiatives, a great place to be”

>>The full version of the report can be downloaded from the Arras People Website.

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Registration is now open for people wishing to visit for one or both days via the website – Project Challenge

Project Challenge is a leading show exhibiting organisations, and features 30 inspiring FREE high quality presentations to chose from. Three early presentations include:

Registration is now open for people wishing to visit for one or both days via the website – Project Challenge

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Early December in London’s Fleet Street and PMO Flashmob – the PMO networking group – hosted the first ‘PMO Managers’ Lunch’. These events bring together PMO Managers, from a number of different industries, to talk in-depth about a particular PMO topic. At this lunch, the subject was “Beyond portfolio reporting – the challenges and reality of portfolio management”.

As organisations look to improve on the returns from strategy development and increase maturity in programme and project management delivery capability, portfolio management has increasingly taken centre stage as a business function to support that. Portfolio management is seen as the ‘glue’ or ‘bridge’ between strategy and strategy execution (delivered by programmes and projects). The PMO or Portfolio Office is the place where portfolio management practices become a reality for an organisation.

Overview

1. Portfolio Management is still not understood well enough within organisations
2. The PMO has to become more business focused – more dynamic, strategic and analytical
3. Theoretical portfolio management guidance accounts for only 30% of what is implemented
4. “Doing the right projects and doing the projects right”, the basics of programme and projects still need attention
5. The PMO need skills in relationship management and data analysis – a true combination of hard and soft skills
6. The PMO is both an enabler and a disruptor
7. Portfolio PMO needs a paradigm shift

To download and read the full report, visit the PMO Flashmob website.

PMO Managers:

John McIntyre – Ticketmaster
Chris Walters – Vodafone
Brett Dalby – Met Police
Rachel Cook – Lloyd’s of London
Jane Cosgrove – DHL
Lisa Chellar –Equinix
Stuart Collins – BBC
Harri Sharples – Deloitte
Anke Bysouth – CAFOD
Simon Harwood – IFDS
Julie Black – Ofgem
Ken Burrell – Pragmatic PMO

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Project Challenge is premier expo show for the project management in the UK and takes place at Kensington Olympia in London on the 6th and 7th October, 2015.

Registration for the event is free and features over 40 presentations from industry experts, trainers, software providers and practitioners.

The show guide is now available to download to allow attendees to start planning their time at the event.

The Project Challenge show also features leading project management firms who are available to take questions, provide product displays and provide advice on areas of project management.

At the autumn show, attendees can visit professional associations, Association for Project Management, Project Management Institute and the Change Management Institute. Training organisations include QA, SPOCE and ILX Group. Software providers include Planview, Workfront, Program Framework and Bestoutcome.

For further information and registration, please visit the website www.projchallenge.com

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Managing Agile, Waterfalll and Hybrid projects within the Portfolio

with Jon Lewis, Director, Ninth Wave

Ninth Wave has extensive expertise in supporting project portfolio management. We find that introducing agile management techniques alongside traditional waterfall based planning is becoming increasingly important for many of our customers.

In this session, we’ll describe and explain some of the issues in managing a mix of waterfall projects, fully Agile projects and projects following a hybrid agile/ waterfall approach, all within the same project portfolio. We’ll share Ninth Wave’s ideas and experience in this area and show some of the tools and techniques that we use to support project portfolio management with these different project approaches.

What change activities should I include in my project plan?

with Melanie Franklin, Co-Chair, Change Management Institute UK

To ensure our projects realise their benefits we have to take responsibility for the development of project deliverables and their implementation and adoption by users.

In this practical session, Melanie uses her extensive experience of change management to identify the key change activities to include in project plans. She will highlight those activities that engage users and those that reduce resistance and build support for the changes brought about by projects.

Optimizing the utilization of your skilled resources. How to balance demand and capacity in volatile multi-project environments.

Barry Muir, Director, Innate Management Systems Ltd.

Poor levels of resource utilization can severely impact overall profitability, but sufficient skills must be available to ensure timely completion of assignments and avoid client disappointment.

Drawing on recent experiences with Petrofac, the Oil and Gas facilities provider and others, we will see how project and services organizations can maintain the right balance in a constantly changing environment.

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