The official launch of the P3O guidance took place on the 28th October in London, the event kicked off with a short presentation from the lead author – Sue Vowler – see the P3O Launch presentation for more details. The key messages slide is particularly interestng, especially this; ” professional P3O staff with a career path”. Once the fanfare of the launch is over I’m particularly keen to see what difference this new guidance makes to the career of a PMO individual.
Lain Burgos-Lovece (Lain also works alongside me at the PPSOSIG) raises the point:
“I didn’t get to talk too much about an obvious topic but perhaps we can follow it up in the PPSOSIG Spring conference: how existing setups can evolve to a P3O setup. It seems obvious that the vast majority of people interested in P3O already have an environment in place – so it’s rarely a question of learning about something for a greenfield situation. What do you drop? How do you justify doing that, if what you had was shaped by the environment you serve? These questions could be quite interesting in our Spring conference “P3O Examined“. The explicit link to process maturity made by Sue needs to be made forcefully in this context: there are many great things in P3O that some sites should NOT attempt because the maturity of their processes would make these things meaningless. This again points of a great consulting role for existing PPSO/PMOs: delivering or pushing for delivery of process maturity that are outside the P3O remit just so that the P3O remit can flourish. Professionalism is just a few years around the corner…”
If you’re interested in taking the P3O guidance further and finding out what P3O really means to you and your organisation – book an early bird seat at the next PPSOSIG conference
