Our Approach

The Program Management Office (PMO) that operates properly within a mature organization serves a vital function. It provides the skills, processes and the resource foundation for implementing the Project Portfolio, as well as oversight, reporting and follow up to ensure projects deliver what business cases promised. At their most effective, PMOs are credited with being a superior vehicle for delivery of corporate strategic plans and managing multiple, cross-organizational efforts.

Conversely, Program Offices have been criticized for being bureaucratic, costly, cumbersome, methodologically rigid and unnecessarily burdensome - “overkill” for projects that could be managed simply in an ad hoc manner.

The challenge is to determine the proper level of PMO - to apply the ‘just-right’ amount of project management and oversight to ensure projects are run well and ROI is achieved without adding more process than an organization needs.

The StrataFusion Group has years of experience implementing and working with all PMO models and a variety of tools. We can assist in implementing a PMO at the organizational level, or help you start slowly with standards and practices that achieve control. We have worked with a number of C-level executives to assess their current project management practices and implement long term improvements plans.

At StrataFusion, we perform PMO implementation/evolution in a way that incorporates your current set of practices and augments them appropriately depending on how much tuning your project environment requires and what you have in flight. First, we assess the current state of your Program/Project Office and projects underway. After that is complete, we work with you to determine the proper approach based upon the following:

• What your primary concerns and business drivers are
• What we identified in the assessment: gaps in project management or other vital processes
• Processes that you have in place that may need minor revision or better reinforcement
• Your vendor relationships and plans for vendor-based projects or services
• Best practices to augment your current set
• Requirements for checkpoints, approvals and controls
• Reporting requirements
• Tools – only if needed
• Your desired organization and sourcing model

Our approach: assess, tailor, coach, audit progress and improve – this allows your process and your organization to mature using existing or best practices.

Download our full overview of our Program Management Office program.