The Step-by-Step to Make Your PMO Generate Value and Thrive
Join thousands of PMO leaders worldwide using the
PMO Value Ring methodology to implement a successful value-driven PMO.
The Most Practical and Widely Adopted PMO Methodology in the World
The PMO VALUE RING© methodology results from a 7-year research project developed by the PMO Global Alliance in collaboration with 122 seasoned PMO leaders from different countries.
The methodology provides a structured step-by-step process for setting up new PMOs or assessing and redesigning existing PMOs.
The Mindset Behind the Methodology
One Size doesn't Fit All
Forget pre-established PMO models and focus on creating a flexible PMO that fully fits your organization's needs.
It's All About Value
Generate value perception for the PMO stakeholders, it's the most effective way to make the PMO thrive.
PMOs are Service Providers
PMOs exist to serve their customers, meeting expectations and delivering expected benefits.
PMOs must deserve Sponsorship
Lack of sponsorship is usually not the cause but the consequence of the failure of many PMOs.
Adaptation is a Key to Survival
Be ready to rethink and reconfigure your PMO any time a significant organizational change arises.
How the PMO Value Ring Methodology Works
1. Identifying the warning signs
Find out how to identify the pieces of evidence that show you must urgently rethink your PMO.
2. Understanding clients' expectations and pains
Learn a practical and extensively tested method to map the PMO customers' expectations and needs.
3. Analyzing needs and setting the PMO priorities
Learn how to analyze PMO customers' priorities in-depth and understand the risks.
4. Accessing the PMO community's intelligence
Get recommendations from our global database, directing the PMO to what really matters.
5. Defining the PMO functions and balancing the value generation
Understand how to define the PMO's functions mix and how to make it fit the customers' needs.
6. Establishing the PMO processes and aligning expectations
Learn how to define the PMO processes and align them with customers' expectations.
7. Establishing the PMO performance indicators and service levels
Get access to dozens of exclusive performance indicators to the PMO's functions.
8. Reviewing the PMO headcount and improving competencies
Learn how to define the PMO team and make action plans for the identified gaps.
9. Assessing and planning the PMO maturity evolution
Plan the evolution of the PMO maturity and how it will increasingly generate value.
10. Running the PMO and monitoring the generated value
Find out how to operate the PMO and generate results, monitoring strategic indicators.
11. Measuring and revealing the value of the PMO
Understand how to advance the PMO and measure the customers' value perception.
12. Being recognized and starting a new assessment cycle
Learn how to boost customers' perception of value and prepare for the next assessment cycle.
Try the PMO Value Ring Web Tool
The PMO Value Ring Web Tool automates the methodology and provides access to the exclusive database with the collective intelligence of our global PMO community.
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