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Program
Management Office (PMO)
As enterprises embark on
challenging transition plans within their organizations, they more
and more are turning to the time tested Program Management
Office solution, as the organization to effectively manage the
transition.
A PMO provides the vision and
leadership to ensure:
- Optimal integration between
initiatives
- Initiatives adhere to
application, infrastructure, and process standards
- Communication between
initiatives is maximized and clearly executed
- Initiatives achieve Data
Integrity, Standardization, and Consistency
- Each initiative will deliver the
expected benefits
- Each initiative will be
delivered for the agreed upon cost and in the agreed upon time
frame
A PMO is the custodian of the end
state vision. And as the custodian, the PMO assists process
owners with the preparation and positioning of new initiatives,
managing the business case development, developing the
infrastructure and application architecture, and identifying
the business process impacts.
The Program Management Office
provides the organizational umbrella that covers the
deliverable focused discipline of Project Management, with the
conceptual and analytical strengths of business
consultancy. It is the glue that holds a long term
transition plan together. Its real purpose is to provide the
practical implementation techniques that ensure that a project
is successful.
Because the PMO is organized to
ensure the success of an Enterprise Transition Plan, it is a limited
life organization. It exists only to ensure the success
of that plan. All Enterprise Transition Plans have a charter,
which define the following::
- Program Identification
- Scope
- Mission and Objectives
- Background
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Issue Resolution process
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Communication and Resource
Management
A charter is basically a written
roadmap that defines the key questions or issues to be addressed by
the project as well as the high level project deliverables. It
may also include information such as project team composition or the
relationship of the project to the organization's strategic or
operational goals. But if it does nothing else, a project charter
should include, with a reasonable degree of detail, a project's
purpose and its intended outcomes. Pegasus Consulting Groups
experienced PMO consulting team can use its Team One
Methodology, to assist your organization in creating a reliable
project charter, that can guide your organization through its
implementation.
The structure and organizational
relationship of the PMO to the project, is as important to its
success as the charter itself. Pegasus provides a wealth of
knowledge on alternative solutions to this important aspect of
the PMO plan. The Pegasus Consulting Group PMO solution
provides your organization with a rapid approach for setting up a
Program Management Office. By working with our highly skilled
and experienced professionals, Pegasus Consulting Group will
guide your organization through the maze of setting up a PMO that
can provide your organization with these benefits:
- Standardized project management
practices, methods and tools
- Increased project success rates
(time, budget, stakeholder satisfaction)
- Centralized visibility of
project status and risk management
- Increased coordination of
resource management
- Better alignment of IT and
business strategy
- Improved communication channels
and change management procedures
Pegasus Consulting Group can help
you to properly staff and organize your PMO. A
properly staffed and organized PMO can have a substantial
impact on both financial and strategic elements of your
implementation. Some of the top ways a Pegasus Consulting Group
planned and staffed PMO can make significant financial and
strategic impacts to your project are:
- Provide standard methodologies
for managing projects
- Create clear channels for
process and project reporting and tracking
- Ensure that similar projects
within your organization are executed in a similar way
- Have the information needed to
speed up or slow down specific implementation processes based on
your organizations culture
- Provide a process to clearly
address resource allocation capacity management
- Ensure that projects and team
members have a direct link to your organizations strategic
operating plans
- Ensure that project decisions
support a business goal or strategy
- Align groups on project process,
selection, priority and execution
Contact Pegasus Consulting Group
today to see how we can help you plan, design and staff your PMO.
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