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Business Agility Drives A Shift In Focus For Today’s PMOs

Forward-thinking companies are quickly realizing that “just getting the job done” won’t prepare them for sustained business growth. Business success today requires organizations to deliver products and services that keep their customers happy while always innovating to expand their markets. Historically, PMOs focused on overseeing the tactical activities that supported the development and implementation of projects. Today’s executives realize that to stay ahead of the competition, they must also seize new opportunities while controlling unplanned risks — this requires a different approach to planning, building, and delivery. Sustaining consistent levels of project success takes more than an organized approach; it requires shifting a company’s collective mindset to embrace necessary disciplines while remaining flexible enough to adapt to changes in their business.

“A learning Curve is essential to growth”

Tammy Bjelland

Strategic PMOs Face Universal Challenges

Transitioning the PMO to become strategically aligned isn’t easy, and each company interviewed is on a path of continuous improvement. Globally, PMO leaders faced similar challenges:

> Inconsistent assessment of current capabilities.

Lacking consistency across projects and programs, PMO leaders had their work cut out for them to get a firm understanding of current projectmanagement capabilities.

> Lack of a common language.

The absence of a consistent language hindered the assessment of current state of planning and execution capabilities. Words like “value” and “complete” meant different things to different roles.

> Organizational resistance to change.

Executives were quick to see the value of a strategic PMO; however, despite having inconsistent project outcomes, middle managers and staff initially saw the PMO’s processes as overhead.

> Inconsistent project management expertise.

In almost every organization interviewed, the notion of project management was something additional to everyone’s daily job. Only the most visible strategic projects merited a skilled, trained project manager. Most firms had at best a spotty understanding of what it takes to be stakeholders and sponsors of projects.

Ensure your PMO is setup for success by defining metrics based on business goals and measuring to those metrics. For an on-time, on-budget PMO, ensure projects are measured to that goal. Similarly, if PMO goals are to drive business results, create project KPIs that support that result.

The UpBuild Solution

As a leader in project management consulting, UpBuild is the niche PPM Consulting provider especially when clients seek to implement business-enhancing, PMO services that improve project and portfolio performance with the following specialized offerings:

Strategy & Program Design

Working with leaders to diagnose issues, create strategic plans and/ or design programs to effectively address the need.

Process Improvement

Identifying & analyzing business or operational processes to improve and streamline, reducing waste to improve quotas or standard of quality.

Technology Implementation

Working with stakeholders to manage, develop and implement new technology projects throughout the systems development life Cycle, from project scoping to implementation.

Change Management

Focusing on the people side of change in order to make smooth transitions in physical and technological spaces.

Training & Certification

UpBuild offers various Training & Certifications on Project, Program and Portfolio Management including PMI’s most sought after certifications- PMI-PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-ACP