August 2009 Newsletter




	August 2009 Newsletter Information and insights for the Program & Project Management Community

Featured Articles

   -  PMO's - Whats next?

   -  P3O is it the way to go?

   - Featured case study

Hints and Tips

Tell us what you think

Annoucements

New PRINCE2 2009

The 2009 edition of the PRINCE2® method has just been published. These changes can affect you and the way your projects are managed. Read more...

Building Communities of Practice

As a partner, MetaPM is proud to support Human Systems ‘Building Communities of Practice’ event, held in Melbourne on 10th of November 2009. Read more...

Upcoming Training Calendar

Rational Management a MetaPM business offer PRINCE2® foundation or practitioner courses. Our Melbourne September Courses have only a few spots vacant so hurry and book now. Follow the link to view our public training calendar Read more...

Welcome to the MetaPM August Newsletter

According to Standish Group study of over 175,000 IT projects, 89% run over budget or over schedule; Average cost overrun 88%, average time overrun 222% and 31% cancelled before completion. Typical Executive complaints about projects were:

       • Project ROI is poor or no measure of ROI
       • Most projects finish later than their original target date
       • Constant fight over resources
       • Project information is misleading or non-existent
       • Too much rework
       • The people have too much to do

Source: Standish Group, The Standish Group Report

Establishing and maintaining a Project Management Office (PMO) is often seen as important step to addressing these problems.

In this months newsletter we explore how the PMO is evolving, the latest practices and MetaPM's view and service offerings.

If you have any queries regarding any of the information contained in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us

Featured Articles

PMO's - What next?

Gary Yorke is a senior Project Manager at MetaPM and chairs the Victoria PMO SIG and sits on the AIPM Governance Committee. In this interview we talk to Gary about his role at AIPM, what interests him about PMO's and his views on how the PMO is evolving. Read more...

P3O, is it the way to go?

Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) is the latest best practice guidance from OGC. Further information about how this model can help provide a decision enabling/delivery support structure for all changes within your organisation can be found at the following link. Read more...

Recent Case Study

The enclosed case study provides a good example of the typical challenges in gathering, evaluating and registering a large data set of lessons learned into a single register source. Read more...

Hints and Tips

The following PMO presentation outlines MetaPM's view and service offerings

Company Presentation - MetaPM PMO Services Overview

For more hints and tips please visit our website. Read more....

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'Simplicity is about subtracting
the obvious, and adding the
meaningful' - John Maeda

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