E53 PMO as a Service Provider with Simon Harris
What are your views on the PMO? There are many thoughts on structure, value or even necessity of the PMO today. In this episode we chat with Simon Harris about PMOs and several other topics in our wide ranging project management discussion. Grab a pint and listen to hear our discussion and dig deep into PMOs, Portfolio Management, Project Management, Agile and much more.
Simon, joined us from Scotland, is a voice in the projects and business change space who strives to see from a new perspective. A few items we hit upon in our discussion:
* PMO organization alignment and structure 
* PMO as a Change Agent and/or Service Provider
* Reinventing PMOs
* Portfolio Management and the need to rebalance portfolios due to COVID19
We also touched on many other topics including PMI, PMBOK, Agile, COBIT and Simon’s cat!
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Simon Harris, a Consultant with Logical Model, is a voice in the projects and business change space who strives to see from a new perspective (because what we do at the moment is way short of reliable competence).
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