Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 11th February 2008 at 07:53 PM, Filed in Project Management
For the Pros and Cons of other PMO models please see blogg posts Managing PMO, Facilitative Managing PMO
This PMO model is not about enforcement. It addresses the needs of project management primarily through a consultative /mentoring approach designed to help foster a sense of project management community within a given programme. For a project managers streams working with such a model this would be more of a “pull” rather than a “push” relationship with the PMO team.
“Don’t call us we’ll call you” 
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For the Pros and Cons of other PMO models please see blogg posts Consulting PMO, Facilitative Managing PMO
This is where a PMO serves as the central governing project /programme management body driving the delivery of a programme or a group of related programmes.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Thu 24th January 2008 at 11:45 AM, Filed in Free Check Lists
Please click on this link to download FREE Domain Screening Questionaire
Some months ago I was involved in a massive recruitment campaign for project /programme management and was asked to conduct telephone based domain interviews in order to sort out the “wanna bes” from the real “have done its”. I devised a really useful domain screening questionaire consisting of a number of key domain level questions and a few short case study explorations. This attached screening document was really useful and helped strip out 70% of the potentials time wasters in one phone call.
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The excellent IT project management site gantthead has a great article by Tom L. Barnett, PMP. In 10 Undeniable Truths of Project Management Barnett outlines 10 points gleaned from the history of IT project management and presents them for new and used project managers to reference.
Some great tips are included, some you’ve probably seen in other lists, books, posts, articles, etc., and a few that might surprise you (or not, if you’re a seasoned, battle scarred or veteran PM):
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I have just come back from a trip to Bangalore India having been asked to set-up for a well known consultancy an offshore software development centre.
Complete Gridlock
Bangalore was selected because there is already a significant offshore IT development presence by companies such as Accenture, Honeywell Bull, Intel, IBM. It was decided that here I would pull together resource in order to set-up a 200 to 300 man software development factory.
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