Chris Kopp

Great Practices

Business EN ↓ 57 episodes

It’s hard to say when something is a “Best Practice”. It’s much easier to know when something is a “Great Practice” and that’s what this Podcast is all about. Interviews with PMO and Project Management Leaders, who, through years of trial and error, have discovered their own Great Practices and are now sharing their insights with you!

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Chris Kopp

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E07 Is Your PMO Sitting at the Adult Table? 15.01.2022 31:44

Is your PMO stuck in the 90s? It may be if all you do is provide Templates and Processes and focus exclusively on IT projects. In this episode of Great Practices, Paul Williams will be discussing the Next Generation PMO that gets you a seat at the adult table. You will learn how to set up a Strategic Planning Team that works on projects beyond IT, what to include (and not include) on the Monthly A...

E06 4 Steps to Define Service Offerings for Your PMO 15.12.2021 27:55

In this episode of Great Practices, we’ll learn about a 4-step process to determine the services your PMO will offer, talk about the different types of PMOs, how to map people to the various roles needed to make a PMO successful, as well as get the word out that your PMO is open for business. Plus, we’ll find out a way to extend the shelf-life of a PMO so it doesn’t begin to stink after 2-3 years!

E05 Keeping Your Virtual Meetings Real with Henry Liebling 15.11.2021 33:42

Virtual Meetings are here to stay, and that’s not a bad thing if they’re done in the right way. Henry Liebling, owner of lessdriving.org and author of the book “Skills Training for Online Virtual Meetings: How to Achieve Virtual Meeting Effectiveness” discusses what you can do before, during, and after your virtual meetings, the roles needed to make a meeting successful, and a process for converti...

E04 Focus on Peoples Strengths with Ruth Pearce 15.10.2021 30:29

Are employee’s weaknesses the best place to spend your time as a project manager? Ruth Pearce   doesn’t think so . Listen in as Ruth Pearc e, owner of Alle, LLC and   author of the book “Be a Project Motivator: Unlock the Secrets of Strengths Based Project Management”   discusses   why it’s better to build on strengths rather than focus on weaknesses, what can be done to shore...

E03 Keep Your PMO Engine Running Smoothly Using Great Information with Bryan Garner 15.09.2021 28:48

Does everyone come to you with every-single-little-question about your projects? Find out what you may be doing to encourage this bad habit as Bryan Garner, Director of Content Strategy with White Deer Group, discusses how the PMO is a content practice. You’ll learn the challenges associated with PMO content, the Rule of Thirds when it comes to managing Content deliverables, and ways you can comba...

E02 Setting Up a PMO with Mike Frenette 16.08.2021 31:02

Where do you begin when it comes to starting a PMO? Well, you can start with this episode! Listen in as Mike Frenette, head of the IT PMO at a water utility based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, discusses how they created their PMO from ground up. You’ll learn some great practices including understanding the culture of your company, tools to use, the portfolio selection process, communicating with execut...

E01 Reports and Dashboards with Joe Sisto 15.07.2021 29:26

The debate is as old as “Microsoft or Apple” and “Coke or Pepsi”. What’s better? Reports or Dashboards? Listen in as Joe Sisto, PMO Director of Randstad North America extols the virtues of one and questions the value of the other. Learn some great practices around how to control report proliferation, what must be on a Dashboard, and how to kill off reports (kind of gives away the answer to the Rep...