breakout session overview
This presentation will explore the cause, impact and
approach to resolving resistance to PMO and to standardization and
professionalization in PM. By
taking an approach that engages resistors in dialogue and adjusts PMO
strategies and tactics to the needs of the organization and its often
conflicting needs for flexibility, discipline, adherence to standards and
local autonomy across multiple organization units.
The focus will be on organization level PMO. We will explore the key functions of the PMO and how they can be managed to satisfy enterprise level as well as local situational needs of business units performing different types of projects. The principle causes of resistance - fear of bureaucracy, desire to maintain autonomy in the face of external controls and scrutiny, ignorance of the benefits to the organization of enterprise level standards, the belief that PMO will inhibit lean and agile approaches to project management and PMO leaders and team members who have taken an authoritarian stance - will be described - will be discussed. An approach that blends open mindedness and mindfulness will be explored to see how it can lead to solutions that satisfy the often conflicting needs for flexibility, discipline, adherence to standards and local autonomy across multiple organization units.
George Pitagorsky, PMP, is Senior Enterprise Solutions
Advisor for International Institute for Learning (IIL), advising global
enterprises on the implementation and improvement of management practices.
He has managed projects and programs, has developed methodologies and
competency models and is an expert in engagement management.
George, a long time practitioner of Yoga, meditation and Tai Chi,
teaches meditation and is on the Teacher’s Council and Board of the NY
Insight Meditation Center.
George is author of The Zen Approach to Project Management: Working from Your Center to Manage Expectations and Performance and of IIL’s Project Management Basics™. He directed Unified Project Management™ Methodology (UPMM) development and has authored or directed development of IIL’s core PM courses. He also co-created the Conscious Living and Working Wisely Workshops and has written many articles and presentations on project management, organizational development, team building, conflict resolution and personal development subjects.
