The Project Management Office (PMO) as a pop-up shop: Fast, flexible and structured value for projects & programs with a PMO

• This book aims to help PMO people to set up and manage a temporary PMO that effectively supports the associated project or programme.• The book targets anyone involved in setting up or running a temporary PMO, based on IPMA and P3O®.• As a practical “how to” manual, the book delivers well. The tone is one of advice being passed on from one seasoned practitioner to another. There is plenty of “watch out for…” which you get the feeling is based on practical experience (dare I say scars?).• The whole approach seems to be based on the PMO person being employed by an organization running a project or programme for a client, located on the client’s site. This very specific set of circumstances is implied rather than stated explicitly. However it (together with some cultural and language discrepancies between the Netherlands and the UK) does colour some of the advice given so as to require some thought or interpretation.• The templates (presented as checklists) are helpful, but in some cases refer to points that I was not able to find in the book. They would have been even more helpful if provided electronically  (perhaps through a companion web site?)Nonetheless, the book offers good value for money, and should be a useful resource to PMO practitioners.

My first impression of this book was that it was full of " consulting" speke and lacked practical usefulness.However, when you start to plan the scope and development of a PMO it is full of. Structured Approaches and templates that were easily modified to fit the requirement. The author clearly has mastery of her subject

Disappointed slightly...there isn't a pop-up in the book!On a serious note, the book is useful - even for those of us PMO and Project Manager professionals.

The book provides many practical examples as well as tools and templates that readers can use at their will as they follow along the roadmap to PMO successPeter Taylor (The Lazy Project Manager) author of Leading Successful PMOs