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

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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

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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!

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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.

Submissions open for the 2020 South African PMO Award

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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

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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.

How the right maturity assessment can help your PMO add strategic value

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An organisation’s Project Management Office (PMO) should play a vital role in delivering on the business’ strategy. However, gaining an understanding of this action plan – and the company’s maturity to execute its declared strategy – is a necessary first step in unlocking a PMO’s value. A clear view of stakeholders’ needs and expectations is also key to this process.