Gain Practical Solutions for Building, Running and Improving a PMO
Become a member of the Project Management Office (PMO) Special Interest Group (SIG). The PMO SIG in Chicago brings together PMO—project management office, program management office, or portfolio management office—leaders with an interest in establishing or growing the value of a PMO to discuss best practices and hot issues. You won't get information like this anyplace else!
Join the PMO SIG – Chicago
In an open and confidential environment, you will have the opportunity to network and trouble shoot business problems unique to PMOs with members who have developed a high level of trust and who regularly encounters similar PMO issues. Members are encouraged to share their PMO experiences, projects, management challenges, and visions of future trends and issues, or ask for support from fellow practitioners in evolving PMOs.
Member Benefits
The PMO SIG is a periodic, member-led CIO executive roundtable that consists of 10-20 PMO leaders. By joining PMO SIG, you will discover:
- How to stretch your PMO across the enterprise, encompassing everything from IT to operations
- Industry vision, thought leadership
- Insight from an unique network of success-oriented executives local to Chicagoland
- Meetings that are conducive to sharing of strategic ideas and to openly discussing challenges
- Ways to gain the epected return from your IT investments
- An impartial, industry-specific board of advisors
- How to drive value throughout the organization
- How to gain expected return from your PMO tools and investments
- Better PMO practices
- Access to the members-only website
- Free membership
Format
The PMO SIG meets bi-monthly for a two-hour session (3:30 PM – 5:30 PM) at pre-designated host site. Meetings consist of peer review, open sharing and discussion of industry issues, profit opportunities and business building strategies. Past SIG discussion topics have included:
- Tying back scorecards through to business value during strategic planning and post-implementation
- Different types of PMO structures (internal and operational)
- Project Prioritization and Measurement
- Status Reporting Criteria and Prioritization: How to accurately define “Red, Yellow, and Green” projects
- PMO tools from a project/program/portfolio management aspect. What tools are members currently using and what works and what does not work?
The Chicago PMO SIG has two member co-chairs and one meeting facilitator:
- Chris Peckham – PMO Director, Homescape, a division of Classified Ventures (Co-chair)
- Alex Tait – Manager, Program Management Office, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP(Co-chair)
- Mike Hughes – VP, The Revere Group (Facilitator)
Upcoming Meetings
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More Information
For information on upcoming meetings or to become a member, please contact Colleen Doyle at 312-873-3396.