PMO Consulting
A high performance Project, Programme or Portfolio Management Office (PMO) should act as the nerve centre for delivering complex programmes. It should also seek to deliver real value to the business way beyond just being a passive reporting mechanism. As a result, senior stakeholders will develop confidence in a programme’s progress and its future ability to deliver meaningful business benefits.
An effective PMO is an essential investment for organisations or functions with significant portfolios of change. Searchlight consultants will help to de-risk projects and help ensure successful delivery of benefits. We bring a compelling combination of experience, common sense and knowledge to all our engagements.
The scope of the PMO can vary in scale and complexity, from supporting individual projects (Project Office), to a programme of several projects (Programme Office), through to supporting a portfolio of many programmes and projects (Portfolio Management Office).
We aim to provide management with tangible results. We achieve this with a combination of traditional process-focused improvements together with people and skills development - through challenging project managers, providing delivery assurance, and coaching and supporting individual project teams.
We are unique in providing PMO consulting services at offshore locations in India, to support the delivery of programmes which leverage offshore software development or testing teams from SI partners.
The benefits of a well-run PMO include:
- Reduce the risk of a programme overruns
- Increase the speed and improve the quality of mobilisation
- Simplify the administration and eliminate the duplication in status reporting
- Provide ‘early warning’ management information and RAG status
- Control the versioning and circulation of key documents and deliverables - avoiding knowledge gaps
