How PMO tools can support a PMO Consultant to succeed
PMO Consultants offer advice, guidance and support to organisations overseeing multiple projects as part of a Project Management Office. The role of a Consultant is to help set project strategy and goals, develop project standards and processes, and advise team members on project needs and weaknesses. As such, PMO tools can be incredibly powerful in the hands of a Consultant. Here, we’ll explore how PMO tools can support a PMO Consultant.
How PMO tools can support a PMO Consultant
Fostering communication & collaboration across teams: PMO tools such as Sycamore Gap’s prebuilt PMO solution enables teams to better communicate and collaborate; providing real time project and portfolio statistics, and eliminating clunky and error-prone Excel-based PMOs.
Automating reporting elements: reporting is key to a successful PMO and, all to often, PMOs, PMO Leads and PMO Consultants spend much of their time searching for and working with project statistics, collating Key Performance Indicators from different sources into one coherent document to share with key stakeholders. Consequently, any PMO tools that can automate reporting elements and/or create standardised templates for reporting can save a busy PMO multiple hours a week which can be further allocated to alternative areas of the PMO such as training or streamlining processes.
Tracking projects: providing PMO team members with a way to track and view key project metrics in real time will support multiple areas of the PMO such as risk management and mitigation or task allocation; enabling the PMO to be proactive not reactive.
In short, PMO tools can support PMO Consultants to better understand an organisation’s project portfolio and streamline many project processes in order to improve their overall performance.
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