HOUSTON (PRWEB)
October 13, 2019

Over the course of 3 hours, the Art of PMO Workshop will help participants gain a greater understanding of how they can quickly drive meaningful change throughout their Project Management office (PMO) that translated into real world results.

Rich Butkevic explains the overarching mindset that serves as the basis for The Art of PMO workshop as follows, “I’ve found the best way to illustrate some of what I believe are self-evident principles the workshop is baed on is by using the example of preparing a recipe. When you’re cooking a recipe, it’s really very much like a project. You have the result you’re trying to achieve, let’s say it’s a chocolate cake, and you have the steps you need to take in order to get to that end result. The first principle we dig into during the workshop is that different recipes should be used based on the skills of the person cooking. I’m not a great cook, so although I’m sure it would be better to temper my own chocolate like a professional pastry chef would, that’s not the recipe I should follow because my likelihood of success is so low. A pretty good chocolate cake is far better than one with burnt, clumpy chocolate. Similarly in PMO’s, I often see the processes based on what the ultimate ideal is, and no consideration being paid to whether or not the staff will actually be able to execute it effectively. Another example is that a recipe needs to be performed in a certain sequence in order for it to have the desired end result. You have to add the dry ingredients first, and then eggs, and then mix, and whatever else. You can’t start mixing before it’s time and you can’t skip steps that are crucial to the end results or which are needed as an input to the next step. A PMO should have the same perspective…the focus shouldn’t be on nuances of the process until the larger things are going well. Don’t bother trying to have resources estimate how many hours a task will take if they can’t determine how many DAYS it will take with a reasonable level of accuracy. Don’t worry about trying to project resource allocation across your entire portfolio six months from now until you can estimate what you’ll be doing next week fairly well. There’s many more examples, but in a nutshell we need to get far more strategic about developing our PMO organizations, and there’s some simple ways to do that which we work through in The Art of PMO workshop.”

Registration is now open for the Houston workshop on November 2, 2019 at 9:30AM. To register or to contact Rich Butkevic, please visit: https://artofpmo.com

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