Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
PMO or PAO?
Tom's latest eBook has been released on Amazon: "The 7 Myths of IT Integrations". Tom is also a Program Director for a large Midwest corporation and has been an adjunct faculty member at Walsh College. He has managed global web initiatives, data center moves and large multi-million dollar programs.
It seems that one thing PMOs everywhere struggle with is how to not be marginalized. How do you keep your PMO from becoming a Project Administration Office instead of a Project Management Office? If you are looking for more from your PMO than paper shuffling, what should you do? How do you get your PMO back on the right track?
Let’s take a look at some key steps:
I. Start With an Accounting Exercise
The starting point for any effort like this is to find out where you are. It’s the only way to determine how to move forward (or to any place other than “here”). The best way to do that with your PMO is to perform a time study or some type of time accounting exercise. Time and money are equally precious. Actually, that’s wrong--you can make more money but you can’t make more time. So time is most precious. Just as you would keep a detailed accounting of how the money is being spent when budgets are lean, you need to do the same thing with your PMO’s time.
Get everyone on your team to keep a detailed accounting of their time for a week. Specifically, you want to see exactly what it is they are all doing. Track everything from QA to e-mail, from time-entry tasks to schedule updating to issue management. While your staff is doing that, summarize how you believe the time should have been spent. Once you’ve …
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