Some Project Management Offices (PMOs) have bad reputations, often when they are run by nit-picking micro-managers who setup paper work jungles that do little but slow projects down. The result in those organizations is that people are still overloaded and have to cope with conflicting project priorities.
But a project office doesn't have to be like that. We worked with a couple of clients over the last ten days to set up Project Office functions... No departments or even full time people...Just systems and processes for control and reporting. We used our achievement-driven Project Methodology (AdPM) and these PMOs are achieving two big benefits:
- By requiring people initiating a project to committee to delivering a measurable business value from the project (the Measure of Success or MOS in AdPM). A lot of pointless projects are being killed before they can waste any resources.
- Projects are now prioritized and work loads are managed so everyone knows what to work on first
Best of all there is no new paper work, everything gets done in AdPM digital templates.
Here are a few more ideas on project offices
Best Regards,
Dick Billows PMP, GCA
President 4PM.com
