A Project Management Office (PMO) is a powerful tool that brings efficiency, order and reliability to critical IT projects. While most enterprises can benefit from a PMO, some are not ready to make the leap. Understand the benefits and assess your enterprise’s readiness for a PMO.

Managing Mayhem

A PMO is a group within an IT department (or an enterprise at large) that provides expert guidance on managing project lifecycles and the IT or enterprise-wide project portfolio. It exists to bring a highly disciplined, professional approach to completing projects in a more timely, reliable, cost effective way, and to ensure that they fully address the needs of the project sponsor.

Establishing a PMO is a major initiative that typically takes three months to one year to implement and many more months to hone. For more information on the benefits of establishing a PMO, see McLean Report’s “ Implementing...