Client: Government-Owned Company – Training focus
Client’s needs:
With a new strategy in place, the client needed to establish an effective governance for strategy implementation and control of strategic initiatives. The client invited several bidders to submit their proposals to build an Enterprise Project Management Office that oversee the implementation of the strategic initiatives’ portfolio in addition to operational projects support.
Approach:
Two consultants were assigned full time with the client’s team under the supervision of a partner to define stakeholders, types of projects, needed processes, potential automation opportunities and required methodology components.
The team developed a complete Portfolio, Program, Project management methodology with required processes and templates in addition to the knowledge center to help the client’s practitioners utilize the methodology.
The team also provided training to the client’s project managers, supported selecting permanent PMO team, designed internal PMO portal and dashboards, prepared RFP for automation, participated in technical evaluation of bids and supervised EPM implementation.
Client’s benefit:
By the end of the project, the client had a fully functioning PMO with knowledgeable PMO team that was able to utilize customized EPM and follow a business-oriented methodology that resulted in better governance on all projects and successful implementation of strategic initiatives.