PM Solutions is a project management firm helping organizations execute, govern, and measure their portfolios to improve business performance.
What steps do you need to take to deploy a PMO?
Here are the steps you need to take to implement a PMO that will immediately show value as the link between project performance and organizational performance:
- Assess the current state. What is the maturity of your program/project management practices? Of strategy management practices? Are there qualified personnel in house to carry out the implementation, or will you need outside assistance? What cultural barriers will need to be overcome?
- Remember, deploying a PMO is an investment and a project — it should be subjected to the same planning, risk identification, and benefits analysis as everything else in your portfolio.
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Establish short- and long-term objectives. A short-term objective might be to inventory all projects. A long-term objective might be to integrate cost and resource management across the enterprise.
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Move forward with some rapid successes. This will do more than anything to sway the organizational culture toward the new way of doing business. Recovering troubled initiatives, training project teams, and eliminating duplication of effort via the portfolio inventory are some immediate PMO wins.
PM Solutions’ PMO services are based on a pioneering process for designing, implementing, and refining the practices and structure of a project management office.
Source: Crawford, J.K., et al. (2008). Seven Steps to Strategy Execution: Integrating Portfolios, Programs, Projects and People for Organizational Performance. Glen Mills, PA: Project Management Solutions, Inc.
