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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West
June 2–7, 2013 | Las Vegas, NV
Putting the 'E' in PMO
Andy Jordan PMP is the founder and president of Roffensian Consulting. Andy is a seasoned business professional with experience in many industries on two continents. After a career managing high profile, business critical projects for many organisations Andy moved into leadership of project management offices and built a reputation for building, rescuing and improving this key function. His approach of tailoring processes to the style and ability of the organisation, and focusing on the development of project staff rather than the short sighted approach of meeting project deliverables at all costs has repeatedly shown dramatic results.
Let’s address a potential misconception before we even start this article: I’m not talking about the ePMO, a virtual PMO if you will. This article is going to look at the EPMO: the Enterprise Project (Program) Management Office.
The concept of an EPMO is gathering support in a lot of different environments, and the recent economic challenges have only accelerated the process. In this article I would like to look at what that might mean for traditional PMOs and identify some of the things that you can do for the arrival of an EPMO in your organization.
The EPMO concept
The concept of an EPMO is to bring all PMO functions within a single, central, corporate function. Instead of having department-level PMOs responsible for the effective execution of projects within their functional areas, the EPMO moves project execution responsibility to the corporate level with a single body looking after the entire project portfolio of the organization.
EPMOs may be formed from the merger of existing PMOs into a central body, or they may be created as entirely new entities that replace the functional PMOs. They can be just as varied as the PMOs that exist today--some will provide simple process audit and project control, others will add project execution with functional management of project managers and others will add training, continuous improvement, project …
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