PMO
An effective Project or Programme Management Office is very often what makes the difference between an organisation that is generally good at delivering projects and one that is generally bad at it.
Most organisations have project manager heroes who work inordinately long hours to deliver projects and put in very large amounts of efforts. These people are both in high demand and short supply.
Often the reason that heroes like this are needed is that the formal project support processes simply do not work properly. Even when ISO quality certifications are in place and Prince practitioners abound it is still not unusual to find heroes delivering most projects.
An effective PMO helps make more project managers closer to being heroes. An effective PMO will help:
- Balance IT capacity with demand.
- Keep the IT executive abreast of project progress, costs and issues.
- Project and plan likely future human resource loadings.
- Maintain procedures and facilities that help project managers do their job: eg. project planning tools, document repositories, formal standards, control forms and time recording.
- Maintain training facilities for project managers of all abilities.
We provide specialist consultancy aimed at enhancing or implementing a PMO.
Examples of previous work include:
- Establishing a new PMO service for a pan-European organisation
- Providing PMO consultants on extended secondment to both operate and enhance existing PMOs
- Operating the PMO for a post acquisition integration programme
- Operating the PMO for IT development services across several European countries.