PMO Advisory LLC, Project Management Institute Registered Education Provider #4172

EdgePMO is a virtual PMO created by NJEdge and PMO Advisory in a partnership tackle the challenges of managing projects, programs, and portfolios. The mission is to provide a project management learning environment with specific services to enable successful project delivery, improve the capabilities of people and teams, and enhance project management processes. EdgePMO is also dynamic, and its roadmap including advanced PMO capabilities to optimize and meet a set of evolving challenges, functions, and services.  By developing and offering best-in-class project management training, from the fundamentals to the most advanced skills in portfolio management, risk management, and chief project officer (CPO) training, EdgePMO strives to raise the bar of competitiveness for NJEdge members that include everyone from project team members through business and IT executives. 

Training & Bootcamp

The EdgePMO encompasses a wide range of training and certification bootcamps designed to boost team and individual performance and credibility. These courses ranges from fundamental courses in project, program, portfolio, and risk management to advanced certification bootcamps including PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-RMP, and PMI-ACP.  We can arrange dedicated courses for NJEdge members that are onsite, in our training center (near Montclair, NJ), or virtually.  NJEdge members are also welcome to join our public courses with pre-negotiated discounts.

Consulting & Advisory Support

PMO Advisory practices what we preach in our training course, and therefore, we are able to offer a wide range of consulting services to help you deliver results. Some of these services include: establishing PMOs, evaluating project management capability and PMO maturity, tackling the problem of fuzzy front end, implementing project methodologies, rescuing and turning around distressed projects, setting up program governance, prioritizing portfolio and its components, auditing project progress, and many more.

Questions & Answers

As an authority in risk, project, program, and portfolio management and PMO, we are extending a complimentary service to NJEdge members by providing a free question & answer service.  As you confront challenging problems at your work and unsure of what to do or whom to ask, keep us in mind. PMO Advisory has a broad range of expertise in project, program, and portfolio management, organization change, business execution, and PMO.  And we will do our best to address your question quickly.

Webinars & Microlearning

EdgePMO plans to offer a series of webinars dedicated to NJEdge members. These webinars cover a wide range of project management topics, such as reporting on the current state of project management, discussing a latest issue or trend in the marketplace, diving deep into a PMI certification such as PMP, PgMP, or PfMP.  Typically one hour and earns one PDU (for those who hold PMI certifications), the webinars are ideal for learning at the convenience of your office. Also, PMO Advisory also offers a public webinar in which NJEdge Members are welcome to join. For more information and sign-up, visit www.pmoadvisory.com/webinar.

When it comes to running projects, most organizations face two key challenges. The first is that the project brings together a separate and distinct groups of people with varied skills who may or may not have worked together before and they all have their own (sometimes entrenched) ways of working.  In addressing this, businesses typically establish the Project Management Office (PMO), a business function that specifies, manages and reports on projects within the organization. Businesses also frequently encounter a second challenge, realizing the return on investment for the creation of their PMO because failed or poorly delivered projects result in:

• Cost overruns
• Timescale overruns
• Uncontrolled scope
• Unsatisfactory control and reporting
• Non-compliance with business standards and/or legislation

To resolve these project management challenges, EdgePMO offers an array of live virtual PMO training and consulting services to assist businesses in executing their strategy by composing a tailored roadmap,  defining the ideal performance indicators, goals, balanced scorecard, reporting, planning and resources, and training teams and individuals on how to effectively achieve:

• Budget alignment
• Timely realization of milestones
• Scope control
• Improved control and reporting
• Compliance

EdgePMO provides:

• Live virtual support through the adoption of project management methodologies, templates and tools and the provision of project execution assistance. We provide support in the form of on-demand expertise, access to information, and consulting on other projects and strategies, as needed. This support structure is provided to organizations who already execute projects successfully but need additional support and expertise or where leadership is looking an expert recommendation from our strategy team. EdgePMO will primarily provide support services that collects, compiles, reports and recommends on solutions and strategies.

• Live virtual training and education on the use of the processes, templates and project workspace; coaching on individual projects and assistance in addressing challenging projects.  If project management is not a core competency, consider outsourcing the PMO virtually to EdgePMO.  We can work in partnership with you to understand your goals and establish a structure that will achieve them. We will evaluate what you currently have in place and will subsidize as required. Or, if preferred, can utilize our customizable toolkit of proven techniques and methodologies. Constant communication, incorporating organizational change management,  is crucial to the success and is a core tenet of our PMO operating model. Performance measures are collectively established upfront with you, and progress toward established goals is continually evaluated via quality and performance reviews.

• PMOs are consistently being challenged to provide additional value to their organizations. To meet business demands, projects must be completed faster and cheaper. The business wants more transparency and they look to the PMO to optimize project resources.  EdgePMO helps your organization rise to the challenge.  To take your PMO to the next level, EdgePMO will first review and evaluate your existing PMO structure, and provide recommendations targeted to enhance it. We will develop a transformational roadmap, identifying areas of opportunity, and will collaboratively with you create an implementation plan for deployment. Common areas of focus for this type of transformation may include enhanced visibility, level of PM competency evaluation, portfolio resource optimization, demand management of both project and operations work, and facilitating organizational change. PMOs offering this level of service govern with a senior management focus on strategic issues and facilitate change across the organization. 

Can Virtual Training & Advisory Improve your PMO?

Firstly, what is a virtual PMO? Put like that, most project teams now operate in a virtual way without even realising it! Team members can be remote geographically, spanning different cities, countries and even continents or they may just be based in different buildings or offices. The point is, largely thanks to advances like the cloud, teams no longer need to be face-to-face to function (and often function even better when they are not). We see how well this is  working and we also know there is greater potential, so we adapted and improved the project management training concept turning it into an “as a Service” offering live online to organizations, small teams and individuals. EdgePMO is a virtual PMO as a service designed for supporting your project activities based on key PMO knowledge areas, onboarding, demand management, dependency management, governance and support, project prioritisation, risk and issue management, communication management, reporting and dashboard, resource management, change management, process and templates and close out. Based on these foundations we found it was useful to offer three levels of PMO service, each of which build upon each other;

Our Virtual PMO supports your project activities across the 12 PMO knowledge areas, we offer three levels of PMO each of which build upon each other; Basic, Standard and Advanced PMO. EdgePro will develop a roadmap for change, identifying key areas of opportunity, strength and weakness to work collaboratively with you to create an implementation plan for deployment.  Having access to the best talent means that flexible and remote working is becoming more common – resulting in geographically dispersed teams who may even operate in different time zones. The need for a central point of contact to provide better visibility, enhanced communication and to encourage collaboration is greater than ever. It may be difficult to determine where best to site a contract or fixed-term resource, so having a PMO available virtually would be ideal. You may only need that enhanced focus on one day a week, one week a month or just specific hours of a day; a virtual PMO resource can provide much more flexibility than a part-time or temporary person can.

Perhaps you need a template, a reporting pack for a project board or steering group, facilitation of a weekly risk management session followed by updates to the register, project health checks or ad-hoc assurance activities. Do you have members of staff that would benefit from a weekly call with someone who can guide and support them through delivering a project? Have you identified someone internally who could develop into a PMO role, with some regular support from an experienced coach or mentor included on their Development Plans?  On-demand Ad-hoc sessions or workshops can also demonstrate the Art of the Possible – ideal to inspire on a team away-day or strategy session – or to focus on maturing specific areas like Financials, Resource Management or Status Reporting.

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