I have lot of people from project management offices PMOs (sometimes same ones) reaching out regarding same items? They have taken me to a point where I am like so annoyed of this bureaucracy
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The TPMs are so bad at Citi. I just finished a project with 50+ TPMs and we only needed 3-5. Instead, they caused more chaos and unnecessary updates. My team is in the U.S. We were assigned TPMs in Poland and India who could barely write a sentence. Over half of them were incapable of taking notes and did zero project management. They only set up duplicate meetings and had no idea what the project was about. Never seen it this bad.
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We are top heavy in PMO because someone up top believes more is better.
If we want projects completed on time and accurate then doubling down fixes that.
Why have one person look at a project when you can have 20? Make sure that each of the 20 schedule mandatory separate weekly meetings for status updates, then lets loop back around to the implementers with concerns as to why its taking so long, you know because it’ll be a complete mystery as to why. It must be lack of motivation, I know we need to hire newer people, they’ll be motivated. Problem solved Bob.
I've never worked at a company where they hired people to check other people's work until I started at Citi and dealt with PMO. Then they slap you with PTS issue non-conformance. Oh please. Get a real job. I can't believe Citi hires people to follow up on project updates and your mandatory training. Then, I heard from a colleague that they have meetings with 20 people on a call to do a pre-review of a deck that all the same people will be in a meeting the next week when a subset of people will be presenting to some MDs. Wth! And these are monthly meetings. How much money are we wasting on these types of meetings?!
Project management job description - talk, do a deck, talk, point fingers, talk, update the deck, point fingers again. Do zero work. Every project manager should be fired at every company. Dead weight.
Citi should make cuts in ERM PMO. ERM PMO is bloated with redundant "work" and incompetent Boz0s:
RE: Post ID: @2bse+1qhEJZVW Your post: "I should be given a do nothing fluff role with an impressive title and I should be given public accolades on how great I’m doing for visibility." ERM already has this in place. You should get a job there. Everyone has a big head and an inflated sense of themselves. Let us, this forum, know when ERM gives you a Royal Sinecure Title and Undeserved High Salary just like everyone else in ERM. ERM always eats up and burns through Citi's budget and expenses. It's a gas guzzler. Thank you for keeping us apprised. by Anonymous | 14 reactions (+14/-0) Post ID: @3hji+1qhEJZVW
Definitely bloated and should be looked at for downsizing efforts.
PMO are not useless, they are epitome of retapping : take credit and get promotion faster than other organizations.
Useless bureaucracy, people call them PTS police, there is team in Poland or Romania who go through project document and write up people for trivial issues.
Not contributing to revenue in any way, just an expense to the firm !!
PMO team is the biggest waste of time and dragging citi down. Not because project planning is not important, it is because it fills with utterly incompetent people who only thrive in useless bureaucracy.
With less people, will they have less time to make up silly rules and hit people with violations for trivial things?
There won't be any more PMO's after the restructuring.