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FNB Botswana named as winning local PMO of the Year, reaches African category of Global PMO Awards

The project management office (PMO) of FNB Botswana has been recognised as the top PMO of the Year in Botswana by the South Africa PMO Awards, progressing to the next level to compete for the title of African PMO of the Year against project offices from the rest of the continent. This includes South African title winner, the City of Cape Town. The winner of the overall African title then participates in the Global PMO of the Year award.

Missing Interaction, Us Too … But We Are Ready To Help!

Visitors to the Project Portfolio Office web site may already be familiar with our purple Live Chat bubble, lower right hand corner of their screens, but for those of you that haven’t, don’t fret, we are introducing our Live Chat directly in PPO!

PG Group partners with PPO, retires Excel spreadsheets to automate project and portfolio status reporting

PG Group produces, distributes and installs automotive glass, building glass, aluminium frames and window film solutions. For more than 120 years, they have been the name for glass in Southern Africa and has since grown to become a significant worldwide player. Their mission is driven by its commitment to excellence and want to make a difference in their customer’s lives by solving glass problems with real care.

Project Team Member Leaving? Traditionally a Pain!

Traditionally when a team member leaves a project before it is completed it’s a pain! Over and above a change to the project team dynamics and relationships, just trying to get a handle on what the team member is involved with, the background and history of each item, the next steps and accessing any documentation is often a time-consuming activity.

City of Cape Town is South Africa’s Best Project Management Office (PMO) for 2020

In a competition that saw the project management offices (PMOs) of ten different South African businesses pitted against one another – a record number of local entrants – the official winner of the SA PMO Awards for 2020 has been announced as the City of Cape Town.

Announcing the semi-finalists for the 2020 South Africa Project Management Office (PMO) awards

10 PMOs, 15 judges, 16 hours of webinar sessions, 36 evaluations, 54 hours of viewing, and we have our finalists for the last stage of the 2020 South Africa PMO Awards competition! Today, we’re thrilled to announce the 4 semi-finalists moving on to the evaluation stage of the world’s largest professional competition for PMOs, their organisations, and leaders.

Submissions open for the 2020 South African PMO Award

Project Portfolio Office, a solution provider that helps organisations achieve greater project success, has announced that it will be managing the South African Project Management Office (PMO) Awards for 2020 and beyond.

The Value of Project Prioritisation

It is good practice for organisations to regularly think strategically about where they want to be, what they want the organisation to look like, and how they need to go about getting there. Traditionally, this process happened on an annual basis and was largely integrated with the annual financial planning process.

PPO provides Mediclinic with maturity assessment as solid foundation for PPM tool implementation

Mediclinic Southern Africa operates a range of multi-disciplinary acute care private hospitals in South Africa and Namibia. The company chose to work with Project Portfolio Office (PPO) to assist in the positive transformation of its enterprise project office (EPO) and infrastructure project management capability (IPMC), using PPO’s secure, cloud-based PPM tool.

Project Portfolio Office offers maturity assessments to help businesses deliver on strategic objectives

Project portfolio management (PPM) solution provider, Project Portfolio Office, offers a PPM maturity assessment service, aimed at benchmarking an organisation’s current project management competency, and then providing a practical roadmap that will allow both the business and its Project Management Office (PMO) to deliver on strategic objectives, reduce costs, and increase success rates.