PMO Learnings from Montserrat

The Delivery Space

21-12-2023 • 1 hr 8 mins

🎯In this episode Nisha & Sharon met with Martin Parlett to discuss PMO Learning from the island of Montserrat, and what a heartwarming conversation we had. Montserrat was left devastated by two major natural disasters in the form of a hurricane in 1989 and a volcano in 1995.

Martin gave us an insight into how the PMO lead a major countrywide social and infrastructure repair programme, and why as he describes “right practice beats best practice”.

In this podcast we cover the following:

00:00 Introduction

02:25 The challenging environmental conditions that the team faced.

09:41 Capabilities required to deliver the change and how to overcome environmental constraints

17:15 The role of local knowledge and cultural understanding in delivering change

28:39 Facilitating effective dialogue

41:49 Key learnings from the experience

53:18 Tips for people who want to get involved in similar programmes

Martin Parletts’ LinkedIn Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-parlett/

Follow Nisha on https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/

Follow Sharon on https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/

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