Get on Track
How to Build, Run, and Level Up Your Program Management Office
Don’t let your company run off the rails.
A company spread across multiple internal organizations, projects, and time zones can be a little like a train without a conductor— moving, but prone to confusion, communication gaps, and at risk of veering off the rails.
If your organization is beset by competing deadlines, inexpert strategies, and missed milestones, it’s time to invest in your own business conductor: a program management office. In this essential field guide to building, staffing, and running a top-notch PMO, software industry executive and program management specialist Paula Dieli shares essential tools, insights, and real-life case studies from major companies such as Zendesk, Adobe, and Macromedia.
Aimed at both business leaders and program managers, you’ll learn everything you need to know about setting up a PMO—from creating schedules and managing issues, to running effective meetings, to building relationships and people skills.
If you’re serious about meeting corporate objectives and creating an environment of continued success and achievement, a PMO isn’t just a no-brainer: it’s a critical component in ensuring you stay on track and hit your strategic goals—reliably, on time, and with finesse.
Reviews
“Paula Dieli brings years of practical wisdom to life in Get on Track, leveraging her experience in successfully building Zendesk’s PMO from scratch and making it a key ingredient in Zendesk’s unprecedented growth and success. Paula provides deep insights and a guidebook on what any fast-growing company needs to put in place to be successful—you simply have to follow it.”
“A great program manager doesn’t run boring status meetings—rather, they add real value to the business. Paula Dieli has built and scaled teams that excel at program management. Get on Track is an insightful reflection from all of her experience.”
“Paula Dieli has written a must-read primer for anyone running a fast-growing organization. Chaos and failure are too often the parents of a program management function. This delightful guide, filled with experience and best practices from a proven authority, deftly captures the essentials of PMO creation, execution, and success.”
“Get on Track presents the qualities of program management done right. Like designing software, elegantly implementing program management processes requires skill, empathy and patience. Follow Paula Dieli’s lead, and you’ll be able to run your program management office with care and efficiency.”
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“I will be hoarding a stash of Get on Track to give to every founder and leader who asks me for advice on how to scale and execute strategically. Having personally experienced Paula Dieli’s transformative work in building the PMO function for Zendesk, I’m grateful to see Paula share her methodology, frameworks, and best practices in such an actionable and accessible way. If you want to make your most important initiatives successful and your cross-functional teams work well together—not to mention lower your overall stress—you’ll want to read and apply the lessons from this book.”
“Get on Track is a great roadmap for starting up and managing a program management team within a company. Paula Dieli’s real secret sauce is the relationships she builds across an organization and within her team—and here she gives you tools on how you can also lead your organization and team to successfully complete complex projects.”
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$24.00 CAD • $19.95 USD
Published March 16, 2021
Paperback, ebook