Whatever You Do, Deliver Value

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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I get a lot of emails from people who are frustrated with my approach to PMOs. They read my articles advocating for PMOs to be business functions focused on helping the organization improve the planning and selection process, or improving the ability to deliver business benefits through projects…and they can’t relate to them. They find that their PMOs are tasked with governance and process oversight, with addressing variances in the triple constraint, and in consolidating reporting across various initiatives and various delivery methods.

When they try to advocate for a more business-focused role, they face pushback from their leadership teams who want them to stay focused on those tactical measures that have characterized the PMO in those businesses for the last two decades.

Understandably, those PMO leaders want me to address their reality. They want ideas on how they can improve performance without having to reinvent the entire PMO in an environment that isn’t ready for that reinvention. And, if we’re honest, these PMO leaders are still more common than the strategic, business-focused PMO that I advocate for so often.

So, I owe it to those PMO leaders who express their frustration to me—and the thousands like them—to try and help them out.

Multiple models, one purpose
Let’s start by considering something that you are …

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