



Traditionally, IT was not part of the core strategy.An informal approach is used to manage projects.AteckPC business needs evolve to compete in industry changes.New technologies are driving the market demands.The organization is struggling with changes in the industry.Two main factors creating a challenge for designing the PMO are cultural.

The slow implementation approach requires time and patience.Skillful management will allow the PMO implementation and operations to be.Managers at AtekPC did not realize they have used project management practices.PMO responsibilities were agreed upon and established but failed to address two.An enterprise-wide PMO was supported by top-level managers but a bottom-up.Steinberg explains future options for governance and Strider describes the current.The current implementation strategy is supported by the PMO team.PMO-heavy and PMO-light were two models under consideration.PMO resources and support was low but improving.PMO duties were divided into two categories, project-focused and enterprise.Standardization was needed and would be achieved through a new PMO.AtekPC establishes a Strategic Planning Office for their long range plan of the.The purpose of the PMO is aligning business strategy with IT resources.Unfamiliar with the organization and industry. Experienced and talented people were hired to lead the PMO program but were.IT was not the center of business activities.Lead analyst assumed project management roles and lack of consistency was the.Formal project management practices have been used but not established as.Current interdepartmental communications for informal projects were sufficient.AtekPC establishes a Strategic Planning Office for adapting to an evolving.The customer has an ambitious decision-to-operation timeframe of just 6 months, which looks to be on target to achieve.Project Management: Integrating a PMO Case Study by David Bustinįormalizing Processes for Evolving Markets IntelliCo Solutions is participating in the ramp-up of the new PMO, providing staff selection and training, knowledge transfer, and quality assurance of the new operation. The customer has now decided to in-source the PMO function, and is establishing a team in their own operation in India. Another round of 10% reductions in the following year was spearheaded by the project management office. Headcount was also reduced, in some sites up to 30-40%. With the improved cost transparency, the customer was able to reduce their IT cost by 15% in the same year, while ensuring that costs don’t come back on board during the next year budget approval. Finally, the PMO took over some common project tasks such as investment documentation, board presentations and project audits. Second, the PMO established governance controls over project initiation, funding and status reporting. First, it enabled the customer to implement a consistent IT cost chart of accounts across 50+ subsidiaries, giving them significant detailed IT cost and IT headcount transparency. IntelliCo Solutions set up an outsourced project management office, with several objectives. IntelliCo Solutions helped by setting up an outsourced project management office, with several objectives. Our customer, a large transportation company with over 50 subsidiaries worldwide, didn’t have transparency on the make up of their global IT costs (just one overall number known, with low degree of accuracy), and there was no overview or controls on IT projects executed globally.
