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Forrester: Project management offices on the rise, but effectiveness dubious

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Sat, 07/26/2003 - 15:59 — Christoph C. Cemper

Forrester: Project management offices on the rise, but effectiveness dubious Nearly one-fifth of all new project implementations are over three months late. Despite PMO use is up from 53% last year. Project management offices need to spend more time tracking individual IT projects and less time generating reports for senior management to be more effective, according to a new Forrester report. An older computerworld article talks about how to Maximize ROI With a Project Office and how PMOs measure up to the bottom line of a company… most important from my point-of-view:

  • Eliminate project redundancies

  • Standardize the delivery process

  • Assess ROI and perform additional project controlling

update: Piz says McConnel introduces that concept in here… but I didnt find it so far…

update2: read more about PMOs in Max’s project management blog

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Sun, 07/27/2003 - 09:58 — piz (not verified)

Forrester: Project management offices on the rise, but effective

The concept of a Project Office is described in "Rapid Development. Taming Wild Software Schedules" by Steve McConnel (Microsoft Press 1994).

I really wonder why it has never been translated to German. It's a classic. See butterseite.antville.org for more.

Sun, 07/27/2003 - 13:21 — ccc (not verified)

Forrester: Project management offices on the rise, but effective

Which page/chapter are you referring to? I just took a quick look at the directory and index of these massive 650+ pages but didn't find it ad'hoc

And of course Steve McConnel should have been written about it ages ago... If not Microsoft, who else understood it?

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