I'm looking for quantitative data showing tangible impacts that a PMO has had on an organization (I.e., % improvement in project success, average amount of project cost reduction, etc.). Can anyone point me at some case studies or reports that contain this kind of information? Saving Changes...
Unfortunately because PMOs can serve vastly different purposes and the starting baseline varies for each company in terms of organizational PM maturity, it would be difficult to get any large scale data.
I would suggest checking PMI's past Pulse of the Professions or their other research publications (e.g. PM Journal) as you may find some stats which are pertinent to a specific size of company within a given industry.
If your company subscribes to Gartner or Forrester, they each have extensive PMO research which subscribers can access and I'm sure there'd be some stats there...
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
There is a lot of information inside the PMI site and other site of firms that "sell" the need of creating a PMO. Some of them, stated above in Kiron´s comment. My recommendation, after lot of years working in this type of things, do not forget that decision and process to create or not create a business unit called "PMO" where will reside the functions/process related to portfolio/program/project management is the same than to create any other type of business unit. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Cameron,
there is a lot of information - as Sergio states - within PMI, from companies and I would add in the research area (search thru Google scholar or research.net).
PMI invested millions to find THE value of PM (look for books, articles by Hobbs, Aubry) - there is not the one value, but many cases were successful. Similarly Bolles / Hubbard wrote two volumes on the value of PMOs, case study style, but found no silver bullet either. (Can PMOs be successful even if PM is not?)
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