In this year, the ABB PMO was re-born with new standard practices and processes, paving the way for the existing high achieving organization.
What is 2015
100
It's the hormone that gets secreted when PMO staff are up against tight project deadlines.
What is adrenaline?
100
Sometimes used jokingly as a name for a person who wears eye glasses.
What is 'For Eyes'?
100
Known as the 'master gland', it's action helps PMO staff reach new levels of achievement by the secretion of Growth Hormone, Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, Adrenocortico Hormone, among others.
What is the Pituitary Gland
100
This person works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and systems.
What is a business analyst?
200
The first software tool introduced to help ABB manage requirements and testing.
What is SeviceNow?
200
This hormone acts in a similar fashion to the PMO Projects paving the way for market growth and increased revenue.
What is growth hormone?
200
It's the first of a series of projects to lead ABB into the international market domain.
What is Pearle Canada?
200
Located in the center of the brain, it's secretions help PMO staff to recharge their creativity each night.
What is the Pineal Gland.
200
A condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective
What is a business requirement?
300
A methodology introduced to add flexibility and speed to the development process.
What is Agile?
300
It's the sleep inducing hormone that PMO staff fight against after consuming an extra large order-in lunch served at a 'lunch and learn.'
What is melotonin?
300
It's the PMO project that will create a new ABB payments page, eventually replacing legacy system velocity.
What is the ACH Project.
300
Located in the posterior of the body, these glands are famous for the 'flight or fight' response necessary to survive PMO requirements meetings.
It's an older development methodology, but still used to manage larger scale projects or other projects as needed.
What is waterfall?
400
It's the hormone that helps the PMO digest and metabolize Friday afternoon Donuts and Cuban Coffee.
What is Insulin?
400
It's big, it's complicated, and even more diverse than we think.
What is the Diversified Project
400
Actually a complex of glands, the secretions of this gland helps achieve balance and stability within the body as does a project management office in a growing company.
What is the hypothalmus?
400
The process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization’s performance.
What is Program Management?
500
The catalog or body of work held by the PMO and used to organize and assign projects.
What is the Project Portfolio?
500
Known for increasing vigor and 'attitude' in both males and females, it's the hormone that helps drive ABB success in all areas of optical distribution.
What is testosterone?
500
It's a house that is bright, but not really a shade of violet.
What is 'Indigo Lighthouse'?
500
Known for cooling the body when overheated, these multitude of glands all over the body provide ventings and cooling as practiced in facilitation of project planning meetings.
What are the sweat glands.
500
This organization awarded Emily Ashworth (our CIO) and ABB Optical as the winner of the private companies with more than $150 million in revenue category in October 2016.