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There is no secret, PMO is now a need for those companies who want to formalize their projects and optimize the effort related to administrative-financial tasks in them. However there are some tips that you should take care before assign the PMO accountable for all the projects.

1. If you are thinking on create-implement a PMO is because you already have ongoing projects. Do not start pushing your actual running projects into the new PMO.
2. If you need a PMO is because you need to optimize repeatable tasks such, accounting, procurement, postmortem analysis.
3. Do not use the same resources you have on your ongoing projects. A PMO will consume more time than a couple hours per day, do it right, assign dedicated resources so they can be accountable for the results.
4. Research before doing changes. PMO should validate what you are doing right, what wrong, what can be improved, what not. Otherwise your will be implementing a Theroy-PMO instead of a real one.
5. Be patient, do not push for results, 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.