admin The PMO Value Ring: Establishing Your PMO Processes Being able to demonstrate the value of your project management office (PMO) will ensure it survives and thrives. Using the PMO Value Ring can be a helpful process to help show the value your office adds, and the third step is establishing your PMO processes. We’ve already looked at…

admin PMO Value Ring: Balancing Your PMO’s Mix of Services A project management office (PMO) needs to deliver value to the organisation that it works for. The framework of the PMO Value Ring can help, and the second step is to balance the mix of services your PMO offers. Before you can look at the mix of services, you…

admin The PMO Value Ring: Defining Your PMO’s Services Your project management office (PMO) needs to demonstrate value to the organisation it works within if you want it to survive. The first step of the PMO Value Ring is defining your PMO services so you can start to understand how it adds value. There are eight steps to…

admin What is the PMO Value Ring? The 8 Steps to Demonstrate Value When you’re setting up or refreshing your project management office (PMO) you need to make sure it’s created with survival in mind. With the framework of the PMO value ring, you can use these eight steps to demonstrate the value your office adds. From the beginning of your time…

admin PMO Best Practices: Embed the Business Strategy into Your PMO Projects need to be delivered on time and on budget, but your project management office (PMO) needs to be thinking about more than just time and money. The last PMO best practice we’re looking at is embedding the business strategy into your office. The business in which you operate…

admin PMO Best Practices: Build Internal Business Relationships Your project management office (PMO) will facilitate relationships between projects and stakeholders during a typical project lifecycle. It’s also essential for your office to build internal business relationships as a PMO best practice. Stakeholder relationships will help a project get delivered without too much scope creep and with satisfied…

admin PMO Best Practices: 7 Ways to Engage Your PMO and Project Teams Across all businesses, workplace culture is changing, and more offices are going hybrid — your project management office (PMO) probably is, too. In this new paradigm, you still need to maintain PMO best practices and engage with your office and project teams effectively. Even if your office and wider…

admin PMO Best Practices: Have Relevant KPIs A project management office (PMO) is only as good as the results it delivers. Having relevant KPIs is a PMO best practice that will help you demonstrate the value of your office. A primary function of most PMOs will be to monitor the KPIs of projects, ensuring on-time and…

admin PMO Best Practices: Plan for Scope and Risk Management A good project starts with strong planning, and your project management office (PMO) needs to make this a smooth process. In our series about PMO best practices, we’re going to look at how to plan for scope and risk management. It’s almost inevitable that a project’s scope will change…