Congratulations! You’ve been promoted from project manager to PMO Leader. With this promotion comes an entirely different way of looking at how you work and will succeed in your new management positio...

Motivating people with the carrot-and-stick approach is to offer employees something positive (the carrot) if they do what you want, OR, to inflict negative consequences (the stick) if they don’t do w...

You may have seen memes themed “You Had One Job.” They demonstrate supposedly simple or basic jobs that have gone terribly wrong. For example, instead of painting FIRE on the road in front of a fire h...

Kim Essendrup is the CEO and co-founder of RAIDLOG.com, founder of The Kolme Group, and co-host of the Project Management Happy Hour podcast. Kim also has the distinguished honor of being a two-time g...

March 3, 2023 marked The PMO Squad’s 10th year in business. Seems like yesterday that I decided to leave a steady job and regular paycheck from a large corporation and dive headfirst into the world of...

The PMO Squad is quickly coming up to its 10th anniversary in March 2023. It only took 10 years to become an “overnight success” and we’d like to thank all of you who have been part of our journey! Yo...

Another great skill of department project leaders (the position formerly known as “accidental” project manager) is to be outcome focused. What this means is that a project is not done for the sake of ...

Spring is in the air! Leaves are green, gardens are planted, and the smell of fresh cut grass is all around. The yellow haze of pollen is behind us and May flowers are on the way. Before you know it, ...

Successful Project Delivery is essential to maintaining a successful business. The PMO Squad has worked with clients of all sizes and across various industries. In many engagements we consistently hea...

You are at lunch with your manager. You catch up on in-flight projects, share challenges of working with certain team members, and talk about your career with the company.

As you say goodbye, and, un...

When we think about the PMO Leader we often focus only on the PMO and often ignore the Leadership.  The PMO is surely important as a function.  It has a significant place in the organization and when ...