Building The Program/Project Management Office

Project and Program Management Offices (PMO) are becoming a necssity for organizations who want to succeed and sustain success. However, the challenge is that many PMO fails within 2 years of implementation primarily because they were not set up properly. What are the pitfalls? Why PMO fails? Are organizations implementing the right PMO with the right structure and purpose? Or are organizations implementing a standard PMO regardless of the context, organizational level, or organizational needs and expectations?

SUKAD leads the PMO following our own propietary project life span model to take the establishment of the PMO from the idea / identification the need and work with the client to go through validating the business case, defining the purpose, determining the functions, develop the necessary methodology and processes and implementing the PMO with the best-fit time frame, whcih could be intensive and short or slowly, intermittently, systematically over an extended period of time for highest effectiveness.

It is worth stressing that SUKAD Principal Consultants have been working or implementing PMO and Project Support Offices long before the word 'PMO' became a trend.

 

Building the Project Management System

One of the pitfalls of the PMO implementation is that the organization could implement the PMO without the Project Management System to handle projects. In these situations the PMO role can be limited to reporting rather than effectively manage projects. What is missing is the organizational need to establish the project management system including the project management methodology, processes, career framework, competence framework. The ultimate objective is to build the organizational project management maturity, one element at a time and for this we utilize the SUKAD Seven Elements of Project Management Maturity.

 

Project Management Software Tool Applications

SUKAD experts assist client organizations to establish project schedule and cost baselines, as well as control techniques through the use of resource optimization and earned value analysis.