Project Management Office Implementation

Project management office implementation - or restructuring - provides an efficient framework for the processes, activities and individuals, dedicated to project management, while respecting the enterprise's business objectives and culture.

The benefits of a project management office are, amongst others, to:

• ensure a global vision of project advancement;
• manage the enterprise's project priorities;
• simplify project management tasks by using the adequate project management tools and techniques;
• increase project delivery capacity;
• optimize the follow-up of inter-project dependencies;
• allow the personnel to manage more complex projects;
• equip the enterprise with a more efficient organizational memory.

Based on the Project Management Institute's (PMI®) recommended best practices, our project management office implementation approach consists of the following stages:

• assess your enterprise's project management practices;
• define future orientation and business needs for your project management office;
• implement a progressive structure that will promote short-term benefits;
• setup proper tools and techniques according to your enterprise's business context;
• optimize priorities by establishing project portfolios.