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COLUMN When the floor says “we don’t have enough people,”three things to check before adding an external PMO Add a seat, and next month the same send-back can still be there. Look first at whether someone who knows last time is still around, whether there is a single final approver, and who will use this

COLUMN In-house PMO training starts,but the send-back decision still sits outside You want to stop the outsourced monthly fee and put a PMO in-house. You buy training. Next month, the same send-back is still there. What you cut first is not the lecture: who knows last time, is there a single approver, and who will

COLUMN The CEO is still the PM,and the writer and the approver are the same person More meetings, more explanation, more pages. Next month it comes back again with “a bit more explanation, please.” The cause is not the writing. It is that the approver and the writer are the same person. What you cut

COLUMN Scope the external assessmentto the teams that can’t produce usage in-house No logs. IT can only give you seat counts. Before the company-wide survey, decide which teams go into an external assessment. Teams that can already answer stay out. No plan document needed. Separate the teams that can answer from the ones that can’t

COLUMN Generative AI license renewal.If you can’t state usage, cut these three first Renewal is due, and the only line you can write is “people are using it.” Before anything else, look at three things: who used it, for which task, how many times. Any team or license that can’t answer comes out of the