{"id":3650,"date":"2010-01-14T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:12:54","slug":"what-to-know-do-and-think-about-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"What to Know, Do, and Think About, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3651\" src=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dude_Writing_Check_List-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dude_Writing_Check_List\" width=\"141\" height=\"128\" \/>All too often PMO Leaders immediately launch into design and set-up before understanding the FULL picture.\u00a0 Here are some additional suggestions on what to know, do and think about to keep you focused and successful.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Power:\u00a0 Understand the power\/organization\/decision-making ways and means<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the business decision-making structure(s), \u00a0i.e., committees, departments, individuals<\/li>\n<li>Understand the organizational power centers<\/li>\n<li>Understand the key program\/business drivers<\/li>\n<li>Understand the key operating drivers<\/li>\n<li>Understand where project management is happening today and how it is going (or not)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Problem Solving:\u00a0 Be clear about the problems(s) to be tackled through project management<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you need to speed up decision-making?<\/li>\n<li>Improve accountability?<\/li>\n<li>Build a better understanding of interdependencies?<\/li>\n<li>Achieve cost savings?<\/li>\n<li>Improve common knowledge of priority efforts across departments and constituencies?<\/li>\n<li>Achieve better use of staff, operating and capital resources?<\/li>\n<li>Achieve better, faster implementation and closure on projects?<\/li>\n<li>Provider a method for prioritizing the project agenda?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Launch:\u00a0 Take advantage of the power of a new approach and new organizational structure of the PMO<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top-down leadership:\u00a0 Have\u00a0 a clear strategy to gain Executive Support<\/li>\n<li>Cross-organizational understanding:\u00a0 Have a clear approach to getting out and working with the key operating and business units<\/li>\n<li>Clear and constant communication:\u00a0 About the PMO, about project management, about the priority agenda, about progress, about everything project related!<\/li>\n<li>Understand that everyone learns in different ways at their own pace; decision-makers, cultural influence makers, skeptics and stars<\/li>\n<li>Be clear about the expectations of Executives, Operating Unit Leaders, Project Managers, PMO Liaisons, and the central PMO<\/li>\n<li>The PMO kick-off must be lead by the most senior person possible and all that will be involved should be invited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Infrastructure:\u00a0 Build the basic PMO infrastructure<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Executive Champions \u2013 Identify those individuals that \u00a0provide ready access, direction and support to the PMO<\/li>\n<li>Director \u2013The PMO Leader must be someone with credibility and a strong record of getting things done\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Staff \u2013 Select All-Stars for the PMO.\u00a0 Some staff characteristics may include:\u00a0 ability to listen well, speed and performance, can do attitude, do whatever it takes, great communicators, teachers and doers<\/li>\n<li>Structure:\u00a0 Think about the PMO as something to be marbled into the organization; a central body with connectors to vital business and operating units<\/li>\n<li>War Room \u2013 Or a place that represents the physical vitality of the PMO and the new approach<\/li>\n<li>Tools \u2013 Keep it simple to be successful; and always start with reporting tools<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0Tune in tomorrow for more\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Lisa DiTullio, Principal, Lisa DiTullio &amp; Associates, LLC, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaditullio.com\/\">www.lisaditullio.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All too often PMO Leaders immediately launch into design and set-up before understanding the FULL picture.\u00a0 Here are some additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[825],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-reddit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}