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Don’t Slow the PMO
A recession doesn’t mean a project management office should slow down, much less shut down. Here are five practical activities that a PMO can embark on to keep busy and improve project management efforts in tough times.
As belts tighten and budgets shrink, will your program management office (PMO) and project leaders sit around twiddling their thumbs, or will they be making the most of the slowdown? A cut in funding and a slowing of projects are not necessarily gloom and doom for the PMO.
In fact, there are a number endeavors a PMO can pursue when the projects start to slow down — not only to keep busy but to improve project management efforts. Here are five:
1. Review your documentation and processes
Is there room for improvement in your project documentation and processes? Can you streamline them? Do you have redundant documentation and processes? The PMO personnel should go through every document to assess its value.
2. Start looking at your data
Chances are that your organization has been gathering some type of data on projects — duration, cost, lessons learned, etc. Now is the time to start looking at that data. Let the data show you the trends and problem areas. Form special investigative groups within the PMO to conduct in-depth analysis of the problems. Dust off the fishbone diagrams and dig into the…
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