The Forward-Thinking PMO

  Governance   PMO   Strategy   ProjectsAtWork  

Does your project management office need to evolve from a reactive operation to a proactive force that anticipates changes and builds contingencies into its planning? Here are three strategies to shape the future of your PMO, and stabilize its status as a value driver in your organization.

Today’s project management office needs to evolve in order to survive. By creating an organization that can easily pivot and steer the business in the face of changing environments, a PMO can not only scale with its growing responsibility, but it can also become the driving force of strategic advancement.

In order to do that, PMO leaders need to think beyond tasks and requests and instead seek out a bigger picture of their organization’s needs. They need to convey and measure the reason for the task and the impact on the overall project to be truly effective.

As a PMO takes on more strategic, business-oriented projects, measuring and communicating the value of those projects and the impact they have on the bottom line will foster trust and validate the effort and cost that went into them. PMOs that create repeatable processes, streamline maintenance work, and focus more resources on strategic projects are able to make a bigger impact on the organization and keep pace with the needs of their customers. They become a change manager and central communicator for the business.

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