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Organizations around the world are implementing formal project management processes and disciplines to deliver their work initiatives on time, within budget and to an agreed upon level of quality. Part of the ability to execute better, faster and cheaper comes from your ability to implement common processes and practices across your entire organization. Many organizations have attempted to deploy common processes by creating a focused Project Management Office (PMO) and giving this organization varying aspects of responsibility for projects and project management methodology.

There are many potential products and services that a PMO can be responsible for, depending on the needs of the organization and the vision of the PMO sponsor. The group is typically responsible for acquiring and deploying a common project management process to the rest of the organization. However, they can also do much more, including training and coaching, project audits, consolidated project status reporting, project management certification, portfolio management, etc.

TenStep, Inc. can help you understand how to best define and utilize a PMO within your organization. We have the products and expertise to help you create and implement your deployment plan, providing you with a fully capable PMO. We recommend deploying methodology in waves, concentrating on the most critical aspects first, and then rolling out increasingly more complex and sophisticated features of the methodology as time goes by.

The Value-Add PMO

Many PMOs focus too much on internal activities and not enough on providing value to the rest of the organization. These PMOs think their job is to design new processes and templates. At TenStep, we focus on making sure the PMO provides value to the organization. We call this the “Value Add PMO”.

We can help you understand how to best define and utilize a PMO within your organization. At your option, we also have the products and expertise to help you create and implement your PMO deployment plan, providing you with a full-functioning PMO.

We will use our predefined PMO model to help you determine:

• The best PMO model for your organization

• The products and services that should be offered

• A Current and Future State Assessment of your PMO needs

• A Deployment Strategy for getting you to your future state

•  A detailed PMO Roadmap to guide the implementation of your PMO

• (Optional) Deployment execution, resulting in a fully deployed PMO for your organization

A Project Management Office can add significant value to your projects and to your entire organization. However, deploying project management practices is not a trivial affair. If you are serious about your organization adopting solid and common project management practices, you need the right PMO Deployment Plan that takes a long-term, holistic view.

We’ve done it before and we can help you implement your PMO successfully. Let us help you save time and needless mistakes.

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