Business Objectives
Improve the delivery and management of projects, programmes and the overall portfolio. Better insight, predictability of project delivery, and meeting their corporate objectives were vital goals. Significant capital investments in the public realm and housing required a focus for the organisation to ensure that projects remained on track and the make best use of the limited resources and skills. Key senior executives required an improvement in governance, project processes, and expertise along with software to underpin project delivery to provide better insight and reporting.
Challenges
Better insight into decision making Lack of project tools Lack of skills and processes
Delivering projects on time and budget Organisational agility and speed
Approach
We put in place a multifaceted and coordinated change plan to implement a corporate programme office based on portfolio management principles (PMO). These covered Developed a transparent governance model with key decision makers Develop a comprehensive project lifecycle processes Cultural and behavioural change along with project training Established the resources and structure of the corporate PMO Tendered and implemented project software solution to underpin the changes
Outcomes Delivered
We established a corporate PMO that supported the organisational strategy, transparent processes, governance, and better project outcomes. These included.
Better decisions on projects and programmes
Clear and robust project life-cycle management
Portfolio management software implemented
Productive project managers to manage more projects
Greater projects delivered on time and budget
PMO Implementation
Vision and Type of PMO
Insight and Project Visibility
Assess PMO maturity
Portfolio Software
Shape Requirements and Selection of PMO Software
Implement Software and Practices
Training and Support
Managed PMO
Provide Managed PMO
Regular Reporting
Scale Up Skills and Capability