As someone now responsible for a bouncing, baby PMO, you are probably wondering whether you are ready. Can you handle the screaming, the demands, the mess? Part of the battle is recognizing that our role has now changed — and we need a new mindset to be successful.
Measuring The PMO
One of the greatest challenges for most Project Management Offices today is being able to actually demonstrate their value and relevance to the organizations they support. One of the big challenges is how to measure success. This article offers a framework for effectively measuring PMOs.
Making the Case For a PMO: Building Your Presentation
Making the case for a PMO requires providing a clear, compelling and focussed argument. As with any sales process, there are strategies and structures that – when employed – help you get to the point quickly and effectively. How to build your case.
Selling the Value Of The PMO: What’s In It For Me?
Understanding the mechanics of setting up a successful PMO is one thing. More importantly, we need to sell the value of the PMO to the organization. Support and sponsorship is critical, and the case needs to be made in a way that will make people stand up and take notice. What to think about in making that case.
Applying PMO Measuring: Benchmarking Ourselves
Demonstrating PMO success is essential. Developing measures to do so is challenging. Establishing effective benchmarks of PMO success is where the rubber truly hits the road. How to think about setting effective success measures and validate them.
PMO Success Measures–A Proposed Model
What does PMO success look like? And how do we measure it. In part, that depends on just what kind of PMO we are trying to implement, and why. A constructive look at what we might want to measure, and how, to demonstrate the success of our PMOs.