There is no secret, PMO is now a need, a must-to-have for those companies who want to formalize their projects and optimize the effort related to administrative-financial tasks within them. However there are some tips that you should take care before assign the PMO accountable for all the projects.
- If you are thinking on create or implement a PMO, is because you already have ongoing projects, so please, do not start pushing your actual running projects into the new PMO.
- If you need a PMO is because you need to optimize repeatable tasks such, accounting, procurement, and postmortem analysis -could be a lot more
- Do not use the same resources you have on your ongoing projects. A PMO will consume more time than a couple hours per day, so do it right from the beginning and assign dedicated resources to be accountable for the results.
- Research before doing changes. PMO should validate what you are doing right or wrong, what can be improved and what not. Otherwise your will be implementing a Theory/Nice PMO instead of a real one.
- Be patient, do not push for results, you should have a plan. Your first PMOized project should be the PMO implementation -it will be the best way you can measure the progress and also validate the impact over your company’s processes.