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Episode 122 Premium: Establishing a PMO Architecture

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Episode 122 Premium: Establishing a PMO Architecture"With the exception of some in the vendor community who have a biased perspective toward their products and some in the community of pundits who simply have an outdated perspective, most contemporarry information technology and Project Management Office (PMO) executives think in terms of architecture, not tools. Tools and applications are important, because they provide individuals and departments with rich feature sets and database-driven capabilities, but it is the architecture that provides integrated information management to the enterprise."

These are Mark Perry's opening words when he discusses the architecture based approach of setting up a PMO in his book “Business Driven PMO Setup”. In this second interview Mark and I delve into this chapter of his book and look at the available tools, analyze architecture approaches and most importantly we talk about the components of a solid PMO architecture.

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Episode 124 Premium: Virtual PMO Roundtable

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How do you assign tasks and track your team’s progress? Calls, e-mails and spreadsheets – all that makes you buried in routine work. To get the full insight into projects and save up to 25 hours a month, thousands of managers worldwide use Wrike. To try Wrike free and get an exclusive, limited-time 25% PMPodcast discount on your one-year subscription, visit www.wrike.com. Apply “PMP” as the promo code.

Shawn Futterer, PMPRon Holohan

In this episode you will hear a roundtable discussion with Ron Holohan and Shawn Futterer on The Virtual Project Management Office (PMO).

Ron works for a large consumer electronics company and a number of project managers directly report to him. He also created the company’s internal PMO portal. Shawn works for a telecommunications provider and is in charge of one of several large projects and also has other project managers who are reporting to him.

We talk about what we think a virtual PMO is and then I go and I kind of ambush the guys to determine if they have all the necessary components it takes to build a virtual PMO. Oh… and we are also joined by Mark Perry – but only virtually.

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Episode 122: Business Driven PMO Setup

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Episode 122: Business Driven PMO Setup Are you working in a Project Management Office (PMO) or are you currently trying to set one up? Wouldn’t it be great if you could read the lessons learned files of over 20 PMO executives and subject matter experts and learn from their experience? We can help you.

In today’s episode we welcome Mark Perry (www.botinternational.com) who is the author of the book “Business Driven PMO Setup”. In this book, Mark merges his personal experience of working with over hundred PMOs with the knowledge of over 20 PMO experts from around the world. The book challenges various traditional approaches and strategies for the PMO and will show you how to implement a PMO using an extensively proven roadmap that is adaptable to any type or size organization.

And yes… you can of course win one of Mark's books - please listen in to learn how to participate.

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Episode 123 Premium: How to be Lazy 70% of Your Project Time

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How do you assign tasks and track your team’s progress? Calls, e-mails and spreadsheets – all that makes you buried in routine work. To get the full insight into projects and save up to 25 hours a month, thousands of managers worldwide use Wrike. To try Wrike free and get an exclusive, limited-time 25% PMPodcast discount on your one-year subscription, visit www.wrike.com. Apply “PMP” as the promo code.

Episode 123 Premium: How to be Lazy 70% of Your Project Time What do we project managers spend about 70% of our time on? That's right... communications.

So how would you like it, if you could be "lazy" on your projects about 70% of the time? Enter Peter Taylor, PMP (www.thelazyprojectmanager.com) whose book The Lazy Project Manager has some great advice on how to be "lazy" in your communications. Get the most out of your productive laziness and learn the top tips from Peter on how get the most out of your communications and still leave the office early.

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Episode 121: Project Management 2.0 and Social Media (Unlocked Premium) 🔓

This is an Unlocked Premium 🔓 episode of The PM Podcast made available to all listeners. Enjoy!

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Elizabeth HarrinLast week's discussion with Bas de Baar on "Everything a Project Manager should know about Social Media" largely focused on how you as a project manager can use social media for career growth. We also touched upon how social media can be used in your projects.

In this Premium Episode we welcome Elizabeth Harrin (Author of Project Management in the Real World) to look more in depth into how a project manager can use Project Management 2.0 and Social Media on your projects. We discuss if and how we should use these tools, how confidentiality plays into this, how the increasing availability of easy to use online project management tools will turn the "technical" project management skills into a commodity and we touch upon the presentations that Elizabeth gave at the BPUG and APM on these topics.

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