From the course: The Top PMO Challenges

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

The PMO doesn't have enough people

The PMO doesn't have enough people

From the course: The Top PMO Challenges

Start my 1-month free trial

The PMO doesn't have enough people

“

- I hear from a lot of PMO leaders who wish they had more staff because then they could do so much more. I guess it's a common compliant for most departments, not just PMOs and it's easy to identify. Too much work and not enough people to do. But this isn't quite the challenge you think it is. In my experience, the most effective PMOs have very few staff. There's a very good reason for that. PMOs operate through other people. For example, if the goal is to reduce the average scheduled delay on projects, the PMO works with project managers to try and improve their planning and estimating. That doesn't require a lot of PMO effort. So what you might think of as not having enough people, is actually the challenge of not having the right people or perhaps not having those people working in the right way. For PMOs in particular, this is a common problem because of history. PMOs started life as tactically focused functions…

Contents