EPMO/PMO 
Evolution & Enhancement

Discovery activities analyze the project, program, and portfolio delivery framework, processes, delivery structures, and decision-making hierarchy.

Through collaborative discussions, we seek to understand the organization’s background in structuring delivery, implementing delivery-focused organizations, and the existing project, program, and portfolio delivery foundation.

This provides the necessary foundation for planning the approach, including how best to lead the change required for success through common PMO/EPMO implementation options.

Creating a central organization to guide delivery allows a focal point for decision-making, delivery, and benefits realization.

Creating a central delivery organization focuses decision-making, delivery, and benefits realization.

For organizations just beginning their PMO journey, this must be done with intention.

Understanding how the PMO is positioned in the organization and how it will deliver expected value. The implementation roadmap guides prioritized delivery and managed leaders and stakeholders across the organization to ensure optimal involvement throughout implementation.

Organizations are continually challenged to deliver more results with less funding and fewer staff.

To this end, Senior Executives are requesting more transparency in delivery and active involvement in decision-making. PMOs and EPMOs are at the center of that request and must be ready to lead tangible decision-making and optimize resources to achieve the most value for the investment.

When your PMO/EPMO is being expected to deliver more and in different ways, intentional enhancements to your capabilities will keep you on the cutting edge of delivery, whether expanding your role in business area delivery or evolving to work at the enterprise level with responsibilities that span your organization.

To take your PMO or EPMO to the next level, PM Solutions collaboratively defines your EPMO structure and required enhancements to delivery capabilities.

This provides the necessary foundation for developing your implementation roadmap and a prioritized implementation plan.

Establishing or refining your PMO or EPMO is best achieved using a collaborative design approach. We approach the implementation by…

• Leveraging best practices adapted with our extensive experience building delivery capabilities as a starting point.
• Ensuring leaders and practitioners are key participants in elaborating and validating the design.
• Defining objectives, functions, and delivery services in an Organizational Charter.

We guide your team in the development and management of the pragmatic implementation approach. This method allows you to intentionally communicate the evolution of your PMO/EPMO capabilities.

The outcomes and implementation roadmap are…

• Tailored to fit your organization’s unique needs
• Help accelerate the evolution of capabilities.

In our years of experience, ineffective expectations management and inability to tangibly realize targeted delivery value often contribute to the challenges PMOs and EPMOs face. 

Our consultants partner with you to create the optimal approach that balances short-term and long-term focus to deliver incremental value (i.e., “quick wins”). 

We focus on proactive organizational change management techniques to embed and sustain new delivery capabilities across the organization.

This allows you to:

• Proactively manage expectations.
• Reinforce incremental value being delivered to build PMO/EPMO implementation momentum and commitment.

Effective implementation requires a smooth transition to steady-state operations.

PM Solutions:

• Provides Skilled Resources: Reinforce new capabilities while your team ramps up.
• Proactively Manages Transitions: Ensure sustained delivery performance as your PMO/EPMO matures.