The PMO ... It's Everywhere ... and It's Green
| by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin
Yesterday's big news here was that the PMO of the Year Award judges had returned their results, and after crunching the numbers (applicants are evaluated on a wide array of factors, each of which is rated by the judge on a Likert scale, so the final choice comes down to, sometimes, a .01 difference), the top six turned out to all be from widely different areas of endeavor. They are:
- Auckland (NZ) City Council Programme Office
- Denver Health eHS PMO
- Doe Run Corp. PMO
- IBM PM Center of Excellence
- Southern California Edison SmartConnect PMO
- T-Mobile USA Enterprise Program Office.
We already had the World Cup of project management going, with entries from Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Brazil - just to name a few - in addition to New Zealand. Now we'll pit government, healthcare, mining, information technology, electric utility, and telecomm PMOs against one another for the playoff.
In checking out these organizations' websites, I noticed something else: nearly all have some kind of alignment, either primary or secondary, with "green" business initiatives. Either project management goes hand-in-hand with environmental responsibility ... or maybe forward-looking organizations embrace both.