Forget the Status Report. Walk the Halls (Ep. 13)

If you want to know what’s really going on in your PMO, don't hit send on that email, go talk to people, preferably in person.

Early in my PMO days I used to rely primarily on dashboards until one day I realized that it was too easy to hide behind forms and reports.

Every morning, I slipped out of my office, stopped by the exec suites, huddled with project leads… No agenda. Just one question:

“What’s working? What’s not?”

That hallway intel outperformed any template. It sparked more honest dialogue. Blockers surfaced early and trust grew naturally.

A reminder that real progress lives in casual check-ins, not formal docs.

Watch now and reboot how you track progress.