Project Management Office (PMO)

What is a Project Management Office (PMO)?

A project management office (PMO) is a group — internal or external to a company — that sets, maintains and ensures standards for project management across that organization: it also ensures that the people who will operate it are highly competent and skillful. They’re the keepers of best practices, project status and direction — all in one spot.

Project Management Office (PMO) development, focuses on creating consistency in project practices, through cultural sensitivity develop self-sustainable, competent people creating mature project management organizations.

Do you need a PMO?

The best place to start when considering whether or not you need a PMO is to take a good, hard look at how your company operates, see if different segments are already working together across systems and groups in harmony, or if they operate as silos with different systems and don’t often talk to each other.

If your company is the latter, then a PMO can help. Also, if you’re about to implement any significant projects or strategy changes — or the strategy you already have isn’t being met, a PMO might be right for your organization.

“If you run projects, the projects have a significant level of cost or have significant level of impact, then you can really benefit from PMO. Certainly, the larger the projects, the bigger the budget, the more there are projects, then the more you can benefit from a PMO.”

We typically structure the PMO as a skilled group within the Client’s business and develop the Methodology, Governance, Standards and Tools required to meet the Client’s specific corporate requirements ensuring that the people who will manage and operate it are highly competent.

This service includes a Project Management Competency Management System that assesses people skills, a Project Management Maturity System that identifies the current state of maturity, development of a road-map that addresses the steps to the desired Project Management maturity, and implementation of these steps.

By using our coaching and mentoring approach, we create Project Management cultures, through instilling ownership within the organization and developing stakeholder buy-in and support.

Our PMO Goal is to:

• Provide tangible, repeatable, long-term benefits to the business
• Align with corporate strategy and culture
• To be agile enough to adapt as strategy shifts
• A key enabler for the high-performing organization
• To integrate data and information from corporate strategic projects/supports the balanced scorecard
• To enable sharing of resources, methodologies, tools and techniques for project success across the enterprise
• To identify and develops project management methodology, best practices and standards
• To coach, mentor, train and provides oversight for project managers and staff

This service includes a Project Management Competency Management System that assesses people skills, a Project Management Maturity System that identifies the current state of maturity, development of a road-map that identifies the specific steps to the desired Project Management maturity, and implementation of these steps.

By using our coaching and mentoring approach, we create Project Management cultures, through instilling ownership within the organization and developing stakeholder buy-in and support.