Creating a Project Management Office (PMO)

Enables the Client to Perform More Consistently

A multinational company restructured its projects department to help it handle an ever-increasing load of projects. To ensure consistency in its performance, the projects’ heads decided to establish a Project Management Office (PMO). A PMO would set standardized processes to ensure that any project would be performed using the same high quality methods. The company engaged IPECC Consultants to lead its PMO effort.

IPECC SCOPE:
The PMO we need to build should help our client:

- Maximize project success rate by adopting a system-wide, best-practices project management processes
- Facilitate enterprise growth by ensuring projects are aligned with enterprise tools
- Implement a process to assess and prioritize projects
- Establish standard practices for measuring project performance
- Support IT governance
- Reduce risk and optimize resource allocation
- Involve all stakeholders to maximize the use of resources across projects
- Facilitate interconnection of processes across the enterprise
- Provide project managers with consulting, problem solving and training services
- Identify, document and distribute best practices and lesson learned

IPECC Consultants successfully led the creation of a fully functional PMO complete with processes, tools, and templates tailored to the company’s culture, structure, and specific project management needs, as well as a staff trained in project-management best practices. Of critical importance, IPECC Consultants helped the team create a means to capture lessons learned for a legacy of continual improvement.

According to the client’s project team, IPECC’s training programs exceeded their expectations. In evaluations, 100 percent of the participants said that they would recommend the project-management fundamentals training to their peers.