TOPIC:   PMO’s – Getting It Right

Research has shown that nearly one-half of all strategic initiatives are reported as unsuccessul. PMO’s are constantly being questioned as to the value they provide and project office managers are forever having to sell themselves to their CEO’s to justify their existance. While doing all of this organisations of all sizes, in all industries are finding that getting their PMO’s to successfully deliver projects is more and more challenging. 
   
Project Portfolio Office, is an award winning online project portfolio management and collaboration application and is the fastest growing PPM application in South Africa today. PPO is currently being used on over 41,000 projects, with current clients including Deloitte, UTi, Rainbow Chicken, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SABMiller, Woolworths, Bigen Africa, Group 5, Mondi and British Telecommunications (BT). With over 200 implementations in the last few years, PPO has seen the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to PMO’s in South Africa and internationally.
   
Guy Jelley, co-founder and CEO of Project Portfolio Office will share practical examples and simple lessons of how some of their clients have got it right and are adding values to their organisations.

PRESENTER:   Guy Jelley, CEO, Project Portfolio Office

Guy Jelley is one of the founders of project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration solution provider, Project Portfolio Office, and is the company’s CEO. Project Portfolio Office was established in 2000, with the sole aim of developing a cost effective, easy to use and simple to implement PPM system and providing it to the local market.
   
Having successfully implemented the Project Portfolio Office (PPO) solution for its first client in late 2004, Project Portfolio 
Office is now being used by over 35,000 projects internationally. With offices in Europe and South Africa, Project Portfolio Office continually improves the solution, providing support to existing clients across the globe, marketing the PPO brand and managing its partner programme.
   
Prior to starting up Project Portfolio Office, Guy completed his articles at KPMG and went on to manage a large number of complex financial and IT projects  with large corporates such as Deloitte, UTi, Rand Merchant Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SABMiller, Europcar,  African Rainbow Minerals and Anglo American.