How to Build a PMO that Creates Lasting Results

Event Date/Time: April 12, 2023, 3:30 pm EST, 12:30 pm PST

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The path to better project performance always includes practical standards for selecting, prioritizing, and managing projects.

Implementing and maintaining these standards is best done by a team that is typically known as a Project Management Office, or PMO. The idea is simple, but building an effective, enduring PMO is anything but simple. This webinar will lay out the path to build a PMO that creates noticeable, lasting results.

Webinar presenters Emil Tarka and Pete Matassa have been building PMOs and delivering project management courses for over fifteen years. All too frequently they have seen the cycle of initial excitement about organizational standards for project management followed by frustration and disappointment as the standards just don’t stick.

Webinar participants will be provided information on how to:
• Understand the benefits of a PMO
• Determine if your organization is ready for a PMO
• Understand the basic steps of structuring the PMO
• Avoid Common mistakes when developing the PMO

Emil Tarka, MA, PMP

Emil is a project management specialist with extensive project management instructing and consulting experience in various industries for the past 10 years. As founder and CEO of Tarka Consulting Inc., Emil has delivered project management training to thousands of professionals at post-secondary institutions, developed curricula for corporate training purposes, developed PMOs for the oil and gas industry, and performed PMO and process audits.

Pete Matassa, MBA, PMP, PMI-ACP, President Techknowledgy, Inc.

Pete Matassa has provided project management and PMO consulting and training for clients in IT, Accounting, Training, and Retail industries for over fifteen years. Pete leverages his hands-on leadership experience to provide real-world context to the concepts he presents.