From the course: The Top PMO Challenges

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The PMO has too many objectives

The PMO has too many objectives

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The PMO has too many objectives

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- A PMO can sometimes be so effective it becomes a victim of its own success. That sounds kind of silly, right? But as stakeholders recognize the impact a successful PMO is having, they ask it to become involved in more and more elements of project delivery. The problem is if everything is a priority then nothing is a priority. You may have well seen this challenge in your own PMO. Some stakeholders may ask you to look at improving resource utilization or schedule delays. Others may be worried about cost overruns or estimation. That's too many objectives and priorities for you, and you'll never be able to address them all. But which one's the most important? Which ones should you work on? The easy answer to that is to say it's the ones that business leaders tell you are the most important and that you'll be measured on. That's not necessarily wrong, but the PMO should be helping leadership figure out which ones…

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