Capability

3PMO specialise in the rapid deployment of Project Portfolio and Programme Management Offices in order to build the people, process, organisation and system capabilities required to get your whole organisation swimming in the same direction.

We can help your organisation become more aligned:

• Strategy Articulation - Clearly defined strategies rarely translate directly into the world of projects and programmes. Delivery managers need tangible, quantifiable, indicators to be able to performance manage their initiatives. We facilitate leadership team sessions to build your mechanism for categorising in-flight and proposed initiatives. Using techniques such as analytical hierarchy process or group voting we make these challenging sessions fun.

• Investment Alignment - Once the method for categorising has been agreed we can quantify the strategic value of each initiative and the aggregate value in your current portfolio. With this in place, any proposed changes to the portfolio (such as approving new investments) can be considered for their relative strategic alignment and performance can be monitored (through benefit tracking) in a consistent way.

• Portfolio Optimisation - In today's fast paced business environment we know that yesterday's great idea may no longer make sense, new ideas are tabled all the time and executive decisions must be made quickly. The Portfolio Optimisation cycle (weekly, monthly or quarterly) builds alternative investment scenarios for management consideration. This format of portfolio analysis and alternate recommendations ensures executive decisions are supported by audit trail of objective evidence.

• Benefit Realisation - Whether you are cutting costs, improving customer service, meeting increased regulatory demands or improving risk controls you will want to provide evidence for your stakeholders on how the organisation is progressing as a whole and identify where additional effort is required to stay on-track. With the strategy defined in terms of measurable indicators we can build benefit realisation plans and track planned and actual progress towards them.

For further information or a free consultation please contact project@3PMO.com

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3PMO specialise in the rapid deployment of Project Portfolio and Programme Management Offices in order to build the people, process, organisation and system capabilities required to get your whole organisation working together effectively.

We can help your organisation become more collaborative:

• Waterfall Methods - Most organisations will already have a delivery methodology to improve consistency, efficiency, coordination and control across initiatives. But is it widely adopted? We help define or refine yours to ensure it is fit for purpose, consistent with best practice and actually being used by the organisation.

• Improved Financial Control - Initiative cost control is one of the most valuable forward looking indicators for delivery performance. But tracking costs can be hugely expensive, disconnected from your management accounting systems and typically varies from one part of the organisation to another. This makes the budgeting and forecasting cycle painful and time consuming... reconciling estimates from different plans and systems, again and again, as each iteration is not fully approved. But it doesn't have to be that way. We help find the most pragmatic solution for your organisation so that initiative and portfolio level costs can be controlled and integrated seamlessly with financial planning.

• Decentralising Governance - Slow executive decision making is commonly cited as the main contributor to initiative failure, with investment approvals and dependency blockages unresolved until they reach top level governance forums that may meet infrequently or irregularly. We can help define and implement processes that retain transparency, audit trails and control but allow for speedy, distributed decision making.

• Automated Tasks - Are your PMOs the right size? Are delivery managers complaining of too much administration and not enough delivery? We help identify the processes and tasks that are completed more in other organisations. Then we can support you in implementing the most appropriate automation and tools.

• Transparency of Resource Capacity and Demand - Planning for change is difficult enough project by project but when you are planning for your entire organisation, forecasts, realised effort and bi-party resourcing agreements can be time consuming to maintain and aggregate. More difficult still is getting the balance right between the effort invested in negotiating engagement plans and delays due to resources being prioritised elsewhere. We help get the balance right for your organisation, implementing simple techniques through to enterprise wide resource planning systems.

• Professional Communities - Self-sustaining staff networks can provide personal support, knowledge transfer, professional development and improved working relationships. But they really come to life with structured CPD (continued professional development), coaching and mentoring opportunities. We can help establish these and build partnerships for you with external organisations.

For further information or a free consultation please contact project@3PMO.com

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3PMO specialise in the rapid deployment of Project Portfolio and Programme Management Offices in order to build the people, process, organisation and system capabilities required to make your whole organisation agile.

We can help your organisation become more agile:

• Benchmarking Organisational Maturity - We can help the leadership team agree a plan for where and how to improve organisational change capability. Where required, we can help gain external certification or recognition from bodies like ISO or the Association for Project Management

• Agile Methods - It is easy to misinterpret Agile and implement incomplete methods leading to poor portfolio performance. We help you navigate the common pitfalls by designing and implementing a method that meets your needs.

• Skills and Competence - We help define what change management means in your organisation so staff performance expectations can be agreed and managed. We can help standardise job descriptions, associated competency frameworks and assessment tools. We can conduct individual competency assessments and initiative health-checks to identify areas of strength and opportunities for improvement.

• Learning and Development - Are you supporting the professional development of your change management staff and are you getting value for money from the training and development that is under way? We can help review and rebuild your existing provision, advise on market rates and align it to your competency framework so that professional development plans flow easily from annual appraisals.

• Resourcing - It can be tough quickly finding appropriately experienced permanent and temporary staff. We are proud to be trusted with securing interim teams to quickly implement programme and portfolio office services and then to build out high performing permanent teams to run the services in business as usual.

For further information or a free consultation please contact project@3PMO.com

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3PMO specialise in the rapid deployment of Project Portfolio and Programme Management Offices.

As a result we have become a trusted partner for executive teams seeking to improve corporate performance.

Our Consulting Service:

• identifies gaps in your current capability

• highlights quick wins

• shapes a plan to maturity based on your businesses priorities

Our Implementation Support:

• pragmatically navigates the common practical and political resistances

• tailors the approach to suit your organisational maturity, culture and ways of working

Our Technology Solutions:

• are pre-configured with best-practice methods so can be taken straight off-the-shelf

• are modular and highly configurable, allowing for rapid tailoring to meet your needs

• are flexible to support the changing demands of your organisation over time

For further information or a free consultation please contact project@3PMO.com

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