Webinar by Eileen Roden and Simon George of the APM PMO SIG
Do you know the competences required to be successful in your current and future PMO roles?
The new APM Competence Framework helps organisations and individuals to develop career paths and development plans for those working within projects, programmes and portfolios.
The recently revised and updated framework now contains role profiles for four key PMO roles. This webinar introduces you to some elements of these role profiles and look at how, as part of the APM Competence Framework, they can help you and your organisation in various types of PMO.
More information on the APM PMO SIG - https://www.apm.org.uk/group/apm-pmo-specific-interest-group
10. Structure of a Role Profile
Key
Responsibility
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
Key
Responsibility
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
Key
Responsibility
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
Competence
• How that
competence is
applied
11. Section of the Portfolio Analyst Profile
• 1: Promoting the wider public good in all actions, acting in a
morally, legally and socially appropriate manner in dealings with
stakeholders and members of portfolio teams and the
organisation
• 3: Identifying, addressing and resolving differences between
individuals and/or interest groups
• 12: Identifying and monitoring portfolio risks (threats and
opportunities), planning and implementing responses to them and
responding to other issues that affect portfolios
• 14: Consolidating and documenting the fundamental components
of portfolios (scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets,
risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements) 16:
Planning and controlling finances of portfolios as a means of
driving performance and as part of the organisation’s overall
financial management
A Portfolio Management Office Analyst is likely to
be responsible for applying the following
independently in situations of limited complexity:
29. Questions
Thank you to everybody who took the time to type in
a question. Where possible we have consolidated
questions and addressed them as follows:
1. Generic questions on the APM Competence
Framework – answered on the following slides
2. Specific questions on how the PMO role profiles
can be used – answered on the following slides
3. Generic PMO questions – these have been
posted in the APM PMOSIG LinkedIn group.
30. 1 - Generic questions on the APM
Competence Framework
• The 29 RPP competences are aligned to the original
APM Competence Framework. In due course, they
will be updated in line with the 2nd edition.
How do the 27 PMO competences align
with the 29 RPP competences?
• Any experience within the previous five years (in
your current or previous organisation) should be
recorded on your self assessment. Details of the
experience can be included in the evidence column.
Can self-assessment include experience
from previous roles?
(cont/ . . .)
31. 1 - Generic questions on the APM
Competence Framework
• The 29 RPP competences are aligned to the original
APM Competence Framework. In due course, they
will be updated in line with the 2nd edition.
How do the 27 PMO competences align
with the 29 RPP competences?
• Any experience within the previous five years (in
your current or previous organisation) should be
recorded on your self assessment. Details of the
experience can be included in the evidence column.
Can self-assessment include experience
from previous roles?
32. 2 - Specific questions on how the PMO
roles profiles can be used
• The APM have created 14 role profiles which are all based on the
same 27 competences:
• 4 Project Management roles
• 3 Programme Management roles
• 3 Portfolio Management roles
• 4 PMO roles
What other role profiles are there?
• Yes. Each service will be underpinned by one or more of the
competences. A tailored role profile can be produced where
competences for all the services are included but some of the
competences are optional.
Can the role profiles be applied when the PMO
provides different services to different teams?
(cont/ . . .)
33. 2 - Specific questions on how the PMO
roles profiles can be used
• Organisations will continue to create job titles and descriptions to
suit their particular requirements. The APM (and P3O) have tried
to standardise the naming conventions and hopefully these will
become more commonplace.
Given the confusion of what PMO stands for and
the various roles, are there plans to simplify this?
• The structure is currently supporting a community of 1100 (PPM
and operational areas). The structure (with more people in it) will
eventually be rolled out to support a community of 30,000.
What is the size of the community supported by the
structure Simon discussed?
• These two roles are the same.
How does the APM PMO Analyst relate to P3O®
PMO Analyst
(cont/ . . .)