Article written by Melissa Centurio Lopes, and appeared on the Oracle EPPM Blog.
Recent research has shown that more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000 companies plan to implement an enterprise project management office (EPMO) over the next two years. Don Kingsberry, deputy director and leader of the EPMO for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation–the largest private foundation in the world–shares what he has learned over 30 years in establishing six different EPMOs across multiple industries. Kingsberry's focus areas for the session include linking strategy to execution, prioritization, EPMO implementation, critical success factors, and resource management.