Being a PMO : Introduction

BEING A PMO.COM

Being the PMO can be a thankless job.

You can be seen as an overhead, an obstruction, a policeman…

What you need to be seen as is someone who makes other people’s lives easier and delivers results. This can be difficult to achieve when you’re charged with bringing more structure and order to a portfolio of projects.

So you really have to focus on delivering value.

So what is that value? The whole point of having a PMO is to generate greater value from the portfolio of projects than is possible from managing them individually. To make the portfolio ‘whole’ greater than the ‘sum of the parts’.

There are some easy levers to pull most of which you’re probably already doing - consolidated reporting (including time-sheeting), cross-portfolio planning and reporting and inter-dependency management. These can introduce some efficiencies, but doesn't significantly increase the portfolio’s performance.

This is our focus - portfolio performance management — addressing some of the key performance drivers to ensure the delivery of maximum value.

Why should I know what I’m talking about??

My background and experience includes:

running multi-year, multi-million pound projects since the 1970s

pioneering real time systems, change management and value delivery across 35 years

researching hundreds of projects in the UK, Europe, Australia, Asia, Japan and the US to determine the drivers and destroyers of value

authoring three books on getting value from projects and technology, several ebooks on such topics as benefits and consultants management and over 100 articles

progressively generating and proving a comprehensive new approach to strategy execution, projects, benefits and value delivery at all levels of project, governance and portfolio management

receiving worldwide recognition for innovations in all areas of project delivery. For a more on my credentials click here.

I am pleased to provide the following services for all PMOs:

Understanding … Guides

A series of highly informative, succinct Guides on key project and value delivery topics to put you and your management team ‘on the same page’ and remove misunderstandings, misconceptions and misalignments.

These Guides are designed to be provided to your business executives, Sponsors, CIOs, CFOs, Auditors and project practitioners to equip them with the knowledge they need to understand the dynamics of projects and governance, enabling them to ensure their projects' success.

Topics include: Understanding… Prioritisation, Project Risk, Benefits, Project Governance, Project Success, plus more.
Click here to see all of the available Guides in this series.

Establishing … Guides

A series of “How to establish …” key project and value delivery functions and processes within and across your organization.

Unique to Beingapmo.com, these Guides are designed to equip you to explain, plan and implement specific functions (eg Project Governance) or processes (eg Benefits Management) into your organization and ensure their success.

Topics include: How to establish effective… Project Governance Structures, Project Evaluation Structure, Benefits Management Process and Project and Value Competency Learning Framework.

Click here to see all of the available Guides in this series. These Guides come with supporting materials and access to regularly updated Reference Libraries for ongoing support.

How to … Guides

A series of practical Guides to particular processes and functions that are usually the domain and accountability of the PMO — PLUS some of the key project processes that need to be controlled, managed or monitored by the PMO.

These Guides are designed to equip you (and other project stakeholders where relevant) with the knowledge and step-by-step processes to ensure the portfolio generates the value expected.

Topics include: How to… manage your project manager pool, validate a project, manage your consultants, manage project scope, define your desired business outcomes, deliver your project’s benefits.

These Guides come with bonus supporting materials and access to regularly updated Reference Libraries for ongoing support.

E-books

You should never stop learning — especially in relation to project and value delivery.

This series of e-books can give you a new insight into value delivery management and, because they are mostly told in a story style, can be provided to management to bring them up to speed quickly and effectively in an entertaining way.

Topics include: Solving the benefits puzzle and Consultants.CON. Click here to see all of the available ebooks in this series.

If what you are looking for is not covered or appears to not be covered, email me to see if we have it available -
Jed@valuedeliverymanagement.com