Consulting & Advisory

PMO Advisory will review the end-to-end management of your projects and programs, from inception to close, both at the individual project execution level and from the portfolio governance perspective, to identify opportunities for improvement in process and data standardization, automation, and organizational behavior.

• The scope and effectiveness of your PMO, or the need to establish one
• Project management methodologies, practices and tools
• Project and portfolio measurement framework
• Project planning, scoping and change management practices
• Supporting tools and infrastructure

The results of an assessment will provide your organization with guidance and a prioritized set of recommendations to achieve measurable improvement to your project performance.

Whether it is based on the needs identified in the assessment phase, or targeting a specific area of project management execution, PMO Advisory will lead or assist you in implementing best practices to drive more consistency and transparency with project management. Services for this include:

• Project Management Methodology Development and Standardization: PMO Advisory will help you develop or enhance the right approach for your project while adhering to industry standards (i.e. PMBOK) for execution.
• Project Management Office (PMO) Establishment and Optimization: PMO Advisory will help you create a new or optimize an existing PMO, PgMO (program management office), or PfMO (portfolio management office) for your organization.
• PMO QuickStart: The effort to effectively and adequately redefine processes, implement automation, and change the behavior of the team for managing projects and portfolios takes time. Services leaders, however, often need results in weeks, not months. To address this, PMO Advisory has developed our PMO QuickStart which combines the assessment phase activities with targeted optimization recommendations to accelerate your speed-to-value.

PMO Advisory offers a wide range of training to enable your workforce, enhance skills of project professionals, and prepare them for PMI certification bootcamps as required. We work with our clients to evaluate their needs and determine an optimal combination of training.  Below are some of the most common offerings:

1. Optimizing Project Management – This is based on Dr. Wu’s recent book (with the same name), and it can be tailored between half day to five days depending on the training objectives.

2. Program, Portfolio, and Risk Management – These courses are based on PMI standards and publications that focuses on the best practices and performance domains. Courses here can be tailored from half day to three days.

3. Project Management Office – We offer a one-day introductory course, and based on our consulting work of establishing new or enhancing existing PMOs, more days can be added to maximize the training outcome.

4. Organization Change – As a human centric firm, we pay special attention to organizational considerations such as people and its culture to reduce change resistence and achieve greater adoption.

 

For our PMI certification bootcamps, including courses for CAPM, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP and DASM, refer to our public course listing at https://www.pmoadvisory.com/events. Note: If there are enough participants in your organization, we can organize special classes just for your organization.