Waffa Karkukly
Canada


Global PMO Solutions
Dr. Waffa Karkukly is the President and Managing Director of Global PMO Solutions, www.globalpmosolution.com. With over 15 years of experience in IT, project management, and PMO establishments, Dr. Karkukly has extensive experience in project management, particular expertise specializing in establishing practical PMOs and revitalizing and assessing the value proposition of existing PMOs. Waffa has helped Fortune 100, mid-size, and small-size organizations improve their project management practices, PPM set-up, and PMO establishments through building scalable standards and proven solutions, which have improved the delivery process of an organization. Waffa holds a BSC in Information Systems from DePaulUniversity, an MIT from NorthwesternUniversity, and a PhD from SKEMA School of Business in France. She is a Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holder, and an active PMI member who speaks at many PMI events.
Articles and Papers
- Transformation Journey from Project based to product based Organization. The TD Journey - Advisory Article - Karkukly, Laliberte - February 2020
- The Digital PMO: Shifting Organizations from Project base to Product base organizations - Advisory Article - Karkukly, Laliberte - October 2019
- The Digital PMO: How PMOs need to Digitalize themselves and evolve to support their organization Digital transformation - Advisory Article - Karkukly, Laliberte - September 2019
- Project Management Office Lifecycle (PMOLC): The Set-up, the build-out, and the sustainability journey - Second Edition - Karkukly - February 2019
- Does outsourcing of PMO Functions improve Organizational Performance? - Second Edition - Karkukly - January 2019
- The Role of the PMO in Advancing Project Managers’ skills to Sustain Organizational Value - Featured Papers - Karkukly - December 2015
- The Integration of Change Management and Project Management – The Role of the PMO - Featured Papers - Karkukly, Lecoeuvre - December 2014
- PMOs where to? – Going Back to Basics - Featured Papers - Karkukly - July 2013
- When Lean meets Agile: A Complete Organization Transformation Case Study - Case Studies - Karkukly - April 2013
- The Four Controversial Practices within the Project Management Office Lifecycle (PMOLC): Two Case Studies & Analysis of these Controversial PMO Trends - Featured Papers - Karkukly - August 2012