From the course: Setting Up a PMO
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Pitfalls to avoid
- I really enjoy speaking with PMO leaders and learning from their experiences. That's why I'm always looking for ways to connect with them. I stumbled upon a forum that brings together an amazing community of PMO and business leaders on Twitter to chat about best practices and various project management related topics. Once a week, these enthusiasts and practitioners from across the globe connect on Twitter for an hour. And they have a realtime discussion on a preselected topic suggested by the moderator for the week. The community invited me to be a guest host. Can you guess what we discussed? Hot-button themes of PMO setups. Why they don't work, and what can be done to avoid these pitfalls. We spoke about three major challenges. Pitfall number one, lack of executive buy-in. As expected, this topic came up first. Not being able to achieve buy-in, especially from executives and sponsors is a common issue in setting up PMOs. Misalignment in expectations, not really understanding the…
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