We are having an offsite meeting to develop improvement plans for our PMO. We have a number of good ideas to discuss, but this is our first meeting and we don't have an agenda as of yet. Has anyone had a meeting like this or ideas on an agenda? Saving Changes...
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Mark Price PerryBusiness Driven PMO Evangelist| BOT InternationalOrlando, Fl, United States
Dear Anonymous, the day can pass quickly. You might want to structure a few areas to focus on such as strategic alignment of the PMO, improvements in process, tools, and training. It can also help to review past project efforts in terms of things that went exceptionally well and things that didn't. Good luck! -- Mark Perry, VP of Customer Care, BOT International Saving Changes...
Michael WoodProject Manager / Business Analyst / Business Process Improvement Guru| Independent ContractorGig Harbor, Wa, United States
As always Mark gives sage advice. You might also spend 20 minutes facilitating a GAP analysis and mapping that to management's expectations of the value the PMO will contribute.
Let us know how it goes.
Good Luck Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Hey, thanks for the advice. We had a great off-site. After discussing and reviewing a number of topics, we conducted a high-level GAP analysis and mapped management expectations to specific actions that we could take over the course of the year. Everyone commented that this meeting brought the team together. We have a lot of strong personalities and we seldom take the time to meet in this kind of setting. Thanks. Saving Changes...
Michael WoodProject Manager / Business Analyst / Business Process Improvement Guru| Independent ContractorGig Harbor, Wa, United States
Sounds like you are off to a great start. Be sure to add quantitative measures to the gap analysis on each side of the equation.
Good Luck Saving Changes...
