PMO Design & Improvement

PMO Design & Improvement focuses on designing, standardising and improving the way organisations organise and support projects, programmes and portfolios. We translate the current situation and desired ambitions into clear governance, processes, roles, tooling and practical ways of working that can be applied and safeguarded within the organisation.

Why clients come to us

  • They come to us because…

    project-based working is not set up uniformly enough, the PMO function does not match the organisation's needs, or existing processes and tools are not applied consistently.

  • They are usually organisations that…

    want to set up or further develop a PMO, are going through a major change, digitalisation or growth phase, or want to create more coherence between project, programme and portfolio management.

  • They often struggle with…

    unclear governance, fragmented processes, overlapping responsibilities, differing reporting practices and tooling that does not sufficiently meet information and decision-making needs.

What you can expect from us

We offer consultancy and consultancy as a service, so we can respond flexibly to the specific wishes and requirements of our clients.

Consultancy

We examine the existing PMO way of working, determine the desired set-up together with stakeholders and translate this into a practical PMO Operating Model and supporting deliverables. We then support implementation, knowledge transfer and embedding, so that the new way of working genuinely becomes part of day-to-day practice.

Consultancy as a service

In addition to project-based consultancy, we provide flexible PMO capacity for coordinating, controlling and supporting projects, programmes and change initiatives. Our consultants adapt to the organisation's existing way of working, whether traditional, agile or hybrid, and relieve project and programme managers at an operational and tactical level.

What PMO Design & Improvement involves

Includes, among other things

  • PMO maturity scan and analysis of existing project processes (AS-IS)
  • Gap analysis between the current and desired PMO set-up
  • Design of the PMO Operating Model and the desired processes (TO-BE)
  • Setting up governance, consultation structures, decision-making and escalation
  • Recording roles and responsibilities in a RASCI model
  • Design of project phasing and appropriate stage gates
  • Advice on tooling, systems, information architecture and automation
  • Development of a PMO Handbook and practical PMO Toolkit
  • Implementation support, knowledge transfer and embedding

Key tangible deliverables

  • PMO maturity scan
  • Project process analysis (AS-IS)
  • PMO Gap Analysis
  • PMO Operating Model (TO-BE)
  • Governance Framework
  • RASCI model
  • Tooling & System Architecture Blueprint
  • PMO Handbook
  • PMO Toolkit

In practice

One way of working for portfolio and project management at the Openbaar Ministerie

At the Openbaar Ministerie, Student Consultant brought structure and uniformity to portfolio and project management by making processes transparent, structuring risks and recording roles and responsibilities in a revised handbook. This created a consistent way of working and enabled change initiatives to be supported more consistently and effectively.

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Why projects keep getting stuck

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