PMO: Success Criteria

PMO: Success Criteria

Project/Program Management Offices (PMO) contribute to Center of Excellence in commercial, government and not-for-profit organizations and have been widely adopted in order to improve project management performance. The majority of PMOs still endeavor to realize the full measure of their potential. Variances exist among PMOs of roles and responsibilities, performance metrics, standards for success, and stature from organization to organization. Various studies have shown that following are some key criteria to be successful.

  • PMO requires maturity in order to successfully deliver.
  • Executive supports is essential to the success of PMO.
  • A better understanding of PMO roles from the wider organization is needed in order to succeed.
  • PMO needs the right resources to succeed


PMO Maturity and Effectiveness: Maturity is an underlying issue that affects the PMO’s effectiveness and role in the organization. In order to grow into maturity, the PMO needs executive support, embedding of processes and performance metrics, and wider organizational awareness, among other factors to ensure successful outcomes. The conundrum is that the resources and support required to overcome these barriers are often withheld until the PMO is more mature and established.

Executive Support Essential to Success: Largely impacting PMOs are challenges from within the organization. Executive support is critical to the PMO success. Lack of understanding of the value of the PMO within the organization is an underlying issue that PM professionals cite.

Organizational Awareness and Understanding of the PMO: Awareness of the PMO and an understanding of what it does are necessary in order to be properly leveraged and utilized in other areas of the organization. When considering the activities the PMO is capable of, and some critical functions of the organization in which it is not involved, it’s apparent that there’s a lack of understanding of the PMO’s potential. The often held perception of the PMO as an administrative function diminishes the PMO’s role as the centre of excellence for project and programmer management.

Resources for Success: Looking at the issues PMOs face from organization to organization, it becomes apparent that PMOs often lack the necessary resources to fulfill their mission.

Above are some factors those are come out from different studies but there are many other factors. May be your input can help!

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