There are many reasons why your business needs a PMO and supporting PMO software
A Project Management Office (PMO) is an internal group that defines and maintains project management standards across an organisation; through communication, portfolio management, stakeholder management, training, and project monitoring & reporting among other things. As such, PMOs make a very real, very positive difference to your business, especially when supported by PMO software. Let’s go through the reasons why your business needs a PMO (and supporting PMO software!).
Why your business needs a PMO
To improve communication: PMOs improve communication between project management teams and the wider organisation, not only by providing regular reports and feedback to stakeholders, but also by providing an avenue via which project management teams are encouraged to communicate and collaborate with one another regularly.
To elevate skills: a key benefit of a PMO is training and mentoring teams; elevating existing skills whilst also supporting team members to acquire new skills relevant to their role and to your business.
To minimise risk & errors: PMOs also provide an additional layer of protection, monitoring & analysis of projects which helps to minimise risk & the impact of human error; encouraging standardisation of project processes and associated administration.
To deliver work to a deadline: delays to project delivery can occur at any time during the project lifecycle but introducing a PMO can help minimise the impact of any unforeseen delays, implement solutions to impending delays, and ensure projects are delivered to the deadline set; helping project teams stay focused, solve problems, identify and mitigate risks, collaborate and communicate throughout the process, and work to tasks.
How Project Management Offices benefit from PMO software
PMO software such as that offered by Sycamore Gap serves to support Project Management Offices in a number of key ways, offering:
- One-click dashboards/reporting
- Structured approval processes for projects and changes
- Automated notifications and workflows
- Role-based access & secure login
All of which, in turn, serve to improve communication between project teams, increase overall productivity, and increase efficiencies; minimising the time project teams – and especially PMO Leaders – spend monitoring & reporting, and maximising time spent tracking project progress, training and mentoring team members, and mitigating project risks.
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