Scott LaceyProject Manager / PMO Consultant| Chrysler Financial LLCSouthfield, Mi, United States
We are in the midst of starting a reorganizaiton from a weak matrix to a functional (line) organization. The PMO will remain in place but likely change roles and responsibilities. With line managers responsible for project delivery, we risk losing visibilty to project resource usage and project progress. Any insights into other problems we should prepare for? Saving Changes...
Scott, if line managers are taking over responsibility for delivery, then the role of a PMO office would be only to provide methodologies, processes, standards, and templates only. You will lose visibility of projects being implemented in this sort of setup. Saving Changes...
Will the line managers 'own' the resources or will the resources belong to IT or some other group? If the resources belong to IT, then you will still need to negotiate appropriate time sharing of the resources.
Other than this, the typical challenges will be: ()the enforcement of the processes, standards, architecture etc. ()questions from the detractors on the need for a PMO ()quality and integration issues, due to differing mandates and funtional unit charters ()loss of a collective organizational knowledge management and best practices Saving Changes...
