Project management offices (PMOs) often face the difficulty of having no real, objective way to measure the performance of their project managers. Harmony is not alone in experiencing this challenge but has succeeded in streamlining its performance management information gathering process, while also providing clearer direction for its project managers and administrators.
Australia-based specialist IT delivery company, Avec, has proven that actions are indeed louder than words by taking its own project-related advice and implementing Project Portfolio Office’s project and portfolio management (PPM) solution, PPO.
Momentum Metropolitan Africa, a South African-based financial services group, has successfully implemented Project Portfolio Office’s project and portfolio management (PPM) solution, across five African countries, including Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho and Mozambique, and the South African base office.
Nampak, Africa’s leading diversified packaging company, producing packaging in glass, paper, metals and plastic, has accelerated its project management office’s (PMO) efficiency and productivity by making Project Portfolio Office’s project and portfolio management (PPM) solution, PPO, its essential tool for project portfolio management.
Project Portfolio Office (PPO) was selected by the University of Sussex’s project office (Sussex Projects) to conduct a full diagnostic maturity assessment one year after its formation. Learn more more about their journey.
The project management office (PMO) of the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL), a statutory organisation fully owned by the Government of Lesotho, yet which enjoys relative independence in formulating and implementing monetary policy, has been named as first-ever PMO of the Year for the country.
Effective project portfolio management (PPM) practices are crucial to survival for organisations faced with an uncertain economic and political climate. South African strategy executive, Leabetswe Bomvana looks at three common mistakes many businesses make when it comes to the execution of strategy, making her recommendations on how to overcome these.
Mondi, a leader in packaging and paper, has successfully used Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project management software, PPO, at its mills based in Richards Bay and Merebank, KwaZulu-Natal, to deliver close to 2,500 capex projects.
Despite the best efforts of many project management offices (PMOs), most are still struggling to get benefits management and delivery – a crucial part of ensuring that the business sees a return on its investment – successfully in place. Benefits management remains an elusive goal for many PMOs.
Martin Parlett, Head of the PMO for the government of Montserrat, a Caribbean island, recently shared his ‘Lessons in Focus’ for project management offices (PMOs), highlighting that, wherever they may be based, and whatever they may be trying to achieve, the challenges for PMOs across the globe are common.
