Hello everyone. My name is Takeshi Morimura and I am writing from Osaka, Japan.

I have been working in project management for about eleven years now. In my current live I am heading a PMO inside a large manufacturing company. We are supporting around thirty projects at the same time, which is very challenging but also very rewarding.

I joined PMO Mastery because I want to learn from professionals in other countries. In Japan we have strong process discipline but I believe there are many things we can learn from Western and African approaches as well. I hope I can also contribute something useful from my side.

Nice to meet everyone here. I look forward to the discussions!

Hello everyone,

My name is Thandiwe Khumalo and I am very happy to join this community. I am based in Harare, Zimbabwe, and I have been working in project management for close to nine years now. For the last four of those I have been managing a small PMO inside a regional telecoms company that operates across southern Africa.

I came across PMO Mastery while looking for resources that go beyond the standard certification content. There is a lot of good material here that is already making me think differently about how we measure value in our context.

My main interest areas are portfolio governance and getting buy-in from senior leadership, which is something that is sometimes more challenging here than the textbooks suggest. I also have a soft spot for anything related to change management because in my experience a PMO lives or dies by how well it manages relationships, not processes.

Looking forward to learning from all of you. This forum already feels like a place where real practitioners talk.

Thandiwe

Sawadee krap, hello to everyone!

I am Supatcha Wiriyapong, writing from Bangkok, Thailand. I work as PMO coordinator in a large construction company, we are managing around 30 active projects at any given time across Southeast Asia.

I find it quiet difficult sometimes to explain to our directors what the PMO actually contributes, because in Thai corporate culture the hierarchy is very strong and the idea that a support function can add strategic value is not always accepted. So I am very interested in how other people handle this topic.

My English is not perfect so please forgive any mistakes. I have been studying PMO practice for about three years and I hope to gain more then just theory here. Real stories from real people is what I need most.

Thank you for having me in this community. I will try to contribute as much as I can.

Supatcha

Buenos dias everyone! Well, good afternoon I suppose, depending on where you are reading this!

I am Beatriz, from Barcelona originally but living in Mexico City for the last four years. I work as a PMO Coordinator in a telecommunications company and I am slowly moving into a more senior role. Exciting times!

I discovered this community through a LinkedIn post and I thought, yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. Their are so many communities for project managers in general but very few that focus specifically on PMO work, you know? That is what makes this place special I think.

Looking forward to all the conversations here. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you want to connect!

Hello everyone! My name is Valentina Cordobés and I am very happy to be here in this community.

I come from Medellín, Colombia, where I have been working in project management for nearly eight years now. For the last four years I am leading the PMO of a mid-size logistics company; we operate across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, so portfolio coordination is quite a challenge with many time zones and, how to say, very different organizational cultures!

I discover PMO Mastery some weeks ago when I was searching for how other PMOs are dealing with the eternal problem of projects that are all "priority one." The discussions here are very real and practical, not only theory from a textbook, and this is exactly what I was looking for.

My big interest is in portfolio-level decision making and how to make the PMO visible as a value driver, not only as a reporting office. I also want to improve my knowledge of Agile PMO structures because our organization is starting a transformation and, honestly, I have more questions than answers right now.

Looking forward to learning from all of you. And if anyone here has experience building a PMO in Latin America context, please say hello, I think we have some specific challenges that are not always covered in the international literature!

Valentina

Hello everyone,

My name is Rajan Pillai and I am writing from Bangalore, India. I am working now six years in project management, and for the last two years I am specifically focusing on PMO setup and governance at a mid-size IT services company.

We are still what I would call a "young PMO"; we have the structure on paper but making it actually work in practice is where the real challenge is. Many times the project managers see us as the people who send reminders and ask for status reports, not as a partner. I am sure some of you know this feeling very well!

My main interests are portfolio prioritisation and how to demonstrate PMO value to senior leadership. I attended few webinars on this topic but still feeling I am learning by trial and error more than anything systematic.

I found PMO Mastery through a LinkedIn post and I thought, finally a community for people exactly like me. Looking forward to learn from all of you and also to share what I have figured out so far from our own experience.

Happy to connect with anyone who is also working on PMO maturity in a fast-growing tech environment.

Regards,
Rajan