Podcast: Work of MCA's Project Office team in focus

James Yeo, Head of the Project Office (PMO) in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s IT team, recently joined PMToday’s Planview Podcast Panel team to discuss the MCA’s wide-ranging Project Portfolio Management (PPM) work.

James explained how the MCA is using project management tools in-house to manage the flow of key projects, supporting staff with easy-to-use colour dashboards and project tabs to organise their day-to-day work and team communications. These tools also provide the foundation to a framework to set out roadmaps and deadlines for future tasks.

James said: “It was exciting to talk to the PMToday Podcast with the Planview team and explain how the MCA is using PPM tools, such as Project Portfolio Management Pro (PPM Pro), to create a really transformable and streamlined work environment.

“Colleagues across the MCA are engaging in a whole host of important short and long-term projects on a daily basis so it is really essential that our project office team is able to play a valuable role in ensuring the very best tracking of these projects, through the provision of planning and monitoring of our management systems.

“Our long-term goal and aim – in order to grow as a project office team – is to deliver a one-stop shop service so that it is easy for colleagues to update their project work, share with others and track completion timelines for any given project.” 

Listen to the podcast in full, here.

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