Process

3PMO can help your organisation build change capability through:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.