PMO 2.0 Survey Report Podcast

Here is a great PM podcast with Cornelius Fichtner, PMP about the PMO 2.0 Survey Report which talks about how the PMO is becoming a "Business Management Center".  Just a few key points to wet your appetite:

• Many PMOs are getting involved with operations (This seems like an obvious and welcome step to me since so much of operations is actually continuous improvement where each PDCA cycle is really a well .... project. See ITIL and MOF literature for more.)
  
• You really need more than 4 people to get an PMO off the ground. (Did somebody say critical mass. Even Dr. House has a staff of 4 ;-) )
  

Lots more excellent details in the report.

Project Management is a "sweet spot" of CMMI

Just ran into this excelllent CMMI presentation. Here Keith Heston, a Senior Manager at Accenture, puts CMMI in perspective from a complete quality program. 

For software development point of view with a Microsoft flavour we can even blend in MSF and MOF (actually Keith mentions ITIL). But elements of Six Sigma and product development and general business strategy are also mentioned.

Of course the question comes up "What is the benefit to me for implementing CMMI and how long is it going to take me to implement it.". And natually the Keith answers "it depends." 

And he specifically mentions that it depends on:

• Where you are starting from as an organization
  
• What you priorities are
  
• How many resources you want to devote
  
• How complex your organization is
  
• How many sites do you have
  
• How mnay project do you have.
  

He focuses that Project Management as a "sweet spot" of CMMI.

You can find the audicast of an interview with Kieth Heston here.

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