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PMI’s Pulse of the ProfessionTM report showed that the number of project management offices (PMOs) is increasing, but it also found that simply having a PMO does little to improve project success rates.
It’s not surprising, therefore, that many PMOs have a short “shelf life.”
How do you resurrect a failing PMO? What can prevent it from failing? Should a PMO ever close?
We posed these questions to discussion participants on the PMI Career Central LinkedIn Group, as well as the PgMP Credentialed Networking Group on LinkedIn. The discussions centered on what can be done at the start, long before the PMO gets in trouble. Gaining executive buy-in, chartering the PMO and mandating a review after a set period of time were popular ideas.
