Many organizations have invested significant time, effort, and money on project management software and training, but still are not achieving the desired results. Few of those organizations have effectively implemented a Project Management Office or PMO (also known as an Enterprise Project Management Office or ePMO) to provide the link between business and IT strategies and project execution. According to industry analysts, project failures are on the rise, nearly 53%, because companies have not successfully implemented a Project Office.

TRS Group will help your company develop a Project Office that acts as repository for standards, processes, and methodologies designed to improve individual project performance and manage its entire collection of projects into one or more interrelated portfolios that serves as a single source of information on project activity across the enterprise.

Project Office Implementation is one of TRS’ core offerings that are supported by our CDF Framework methodology helps your organization build a Project Office focusing on:

Business and IT Alignment

As part of a Project Office, Our consultants research current practices and needs to better understand the status of Project Management within your organization, including the current culture, practices, governance and procedures. From this information, we will develop a Project Management Improvement Plan resulting from our assessment. TRS will help define reasonable goals designed to improve the maturity of your company’s project management capabilities.

Creating a Foundation

TRS consultants work with your team to develop specific foundational activities that are considered minimum essential project management capabilities to your company. These activities include process development, governance, procedural rules, deployment techniques, training and education to build lasting core skills for your organization. In addition to getting the basics in place, TRS will help you address short-term objectives that need to be addressed immediately, such as project start-up, project intervention and recovery, project portfolio inventory, and communications planning.

Culture and Organizational Shift

Once the foundation has been laid, TRS works with your team to put the logical structure in place for project management to succeed. We address the human side of change, business processes, impact on IT and other technological changes, organizational re-structuring, mentoring, career development, and training to meet your near and long term business objectives.