Project Management Office (PMO) Deployment
The Project Management Office or (PMO) is being adopted by many firms to expand market reach, improve staff productivity, enhance current products and considerably improve customer relationships. This mode of operation is drawing an ever increasing following because companies are recognizing that they need a new operational method to handle projects which now make up about 70-80% of the work load of most firms. A PMO can help your organization:
- Develop more stable work scopes
- Improve status reporting
- Increase ability to do more projects
- Increase capability to identify and implement infrastructure (staff support ) improvements
- Cultivate methods to assign priorities that are not subject to frequent changes and techniques to deal with issues and changes proactively
- Improve staff leadership and customer relationships
- Increase quality customer services
Utowna works to develop and deploy a PMO that fits your organizations by leading you through the following six steps:
- Assessing where you are based on a Project Management Maturity Model
- Articulating your management team's objectives, and how the team wants to use PM to accomplish its business and management goals
- Identifying the PM and work process methodology you want to use to more effectively and successfully complete client and infrastructure (continuous improvement) projects
- Choosing a new governance process or organization structure to support and run the new operation
- Facilitating company wide workshops and training to ensure that every employee is onboard with the PMO
- Identifying the software tool whose scope is determined by the above five steps.