What experiences prepared you for PMO leadership?
Describe one attitude or ability that you feel is mandatory to be a successful PMO leader?
What do you spend the most time doing as a PMO leader? Saving Changes...
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
1-Business Administration.
2-Stakeholder Management.
3-Working on Value Stream Management. Saving Changes...
1. Leading projects of progressively greater complexity over time + management training
2. Relationship building
3. Influencing & persuading
Kiron Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Experience: ran several projects in different industries and tried out several tools (like EV)
Attitude: listen
Time spend: in the 1st year building PMO structure, functions, after that running and extending the established functions
Most time wasted: trying to establish SW tools
Best benefit achieved: reduced executive time for escalations and trouble shooting Saving Changes...
Aaron,
You know that I'm "almost there" during the last years/work opportunities. This is what I'm doing to prepare for the role:
1 - Lead projects more complex, with more dependencies and more impact in revenue.
2- Build strong relationships inside/outside the organization
3 - Volunteer in PMO opportunities.
From my point of view a to success as PMO you need the trust of your team and be great in politics (Stakeholder management) Saving Changes...
Bill DowPMO Director| University of WARenton, Wa, United States
I have ran 10 PMOs in my career across 3 companies, so to answer your questions I would say:
What experiences prepared you for PMO leadership? - 30 + years in Portfolio, Program and Project Management has prepared me to lead a PMO. Managing countless projects, succeeding, failing, and learning from each mistake and charging forward.
Describe one attitude or ability that you feel is mandatory to be a successful PMO leader?
You have to care about your people and show them you care. So many PMO leaders are worried about business value, ROI, delivery, it comes down to people management and people leadership.
What do you spend the most time doing as a PMO leader? People, strategy, determine how to serve my business, driving structure into how my PMs operate, Communications, Dashboards, Strategic projects... I run a very large PMO in a large organization and so I get involved in a lot of areas. :) Saving Changes...
Bilal AntarPMO - Sr. Manager II| HL MandoWixom, Mi, United States
I've been running PMO in my organization 5+ years. Here is my take on your question:
1- What experiences prepared you for PMO leadership?
I've had 9+ years of technical experience in my field.
I've also held a project management role for more than 8+ years. Managing a diverse range of customers.
In addition during that time. I've managed to touch all areas in the business and interfaced with internal and external stakeholders. Ranging from customers to vendors. This gave me a very good exposure and experience to be confident in my role.
2- Describe one attitude or ability that you feel is mandatory to be a successful PMO leader?
Of course there is a lot of interpersonal skills that are in high need ;however, choosing one. It would have to be communication. You have to be able to communicate at different levels ranging form CEO to team members. Having a good broad bandwidth in communication would help in an array of thing from business strategies to project/program issues.
3- What do you spend the most time doing as a PMO leader?
To name a few. I spend the majority of my time coaching, training, and guiding my team. Creating and improving PM processes. Creating and optimizing reporting templates and KPI metrics. Generating business monthly reports to executive management. Saving Changes...
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