PMO Assessment/Recommendation Content

The team-based PMO project should identify where on the PMO Competency Continuum the company PM activities currently reside. Your assessment should assess of the readiness for the organization for advancing their existing PMO along the PMO Competency Continuum. Your analysis of that assessment should determine the readiness of the company for advancing along the continuum with a detailed report of what you recommend they do to progress towards that objective. Your recommendation should include a plan to take the company towards that objective.

General Assessment Criteria: Competency, Capability, and Maturity.

Assessment Criteria CategoriesAdapted from The Complete Project Management Office Handbook by Gerard M. Hill
Practice Management / Infrastructure Management / Resource Integration / Technical Support / Business Alignment
PM Methodology
  • Assess basis for PM methodology
  • Assess current practices
  • Assess project life cycle
  • Assess PM methodology implementation
  • Assess PMmethodology maturity management
/ Project Governance
  • Assess preparation and maintain PMO charter
  • AssessPM policies
  • Assess project classification guidance
  • Assess project manager authority
  • Assess executive control board
  • Assess business and technical committees
/ Resource Mgt
  • Assess projectresources Acquisition
  • Assess project resource assignment
  • Assess project resource deployment
  • Assess resource performance management
  • Assess project resource assignment close-out
/ Mentoring
  • AssessPM mentoring program
  • Assess PM mentors engagement
  • Assess actual PM mentoring
  • Assess mentoring program evaluation
/ Project Portfolio Mgt
  • Assess project portfolio management
  • Assess project selection
  • Assess integrationof projects in the portfolio
  • Assess project and portfolio reviews
  • Assess portfolio attrition management

PM Tools
  • Assess project tools
  • Assess project tools implementation
  • Assess project tools evaluation
/ Assessment
  • Assess competency assessments
  • Assess capability assessments
  • Assess maturity assessments
/ Training Education
  • Assess training programs
  • Assess training program Management
  • Assess training program evaluation
/ Planning Support
  • Assess project planning support
  • Assess adjunct planning support
/ Customer Relationship
  • Assess customer relationship management
  • Assess customer contract management
  • Assess customer satisfaction management

Standards Metrics
  • Assess PM standardsimplementation
  • Assess project metric requirementsdetermination
  • Assess introduction and use of metrics
/ Organization Structure
  • Assess PMO structure
  • AssessPM structure
  • Assess stakeholder project participation
/ Career Development
  • AssessPM career path
  • AssessPM career planning
  • Assess professional certification support
/ Project Auditing
  • Assess project auditing capability
  • Assess actual project auditing
  • Assess project auditing resultmanagement
/ V/C Relationships
  • Assessrelationships with vendor/contractor
  • Assess acquisition ofvendor/contractor
  • Assess managementof vendor/contractor performance

Project Knowledge Management
  • Assess knowledge management framework
  • Assess knowledge management system introduction
  • Assess knowledge management systemimplementation
/ Facilities Equipment Support
  • Assess project team requirements
  • Assess project facilitiesmanagement
  • Assess project equipmentmanagement
/ Team Development
  • Assess cohesive team formationfacilitation
  • Assess virtual team setup facilitation
  • Assess project team developmentenablement
  • Assess project team performancemonitoring
/ Project Recovery
  • Assess recovery assessment process
  • Assess planning and conducting project recovery
  • Assess capturing of recovery lessons learned
/ Business Performance
  • Assess integrated business solutionsdevelopment
  • Assess business collaborationmanagement
  • Assess PMO business fulfillmentmanagement

The PMO assessment should use the categories in the Assessment Criteria Categories Table to assess how the performance of the company with regard to their PMO office oversight activities. The recommendation should provide concrete ways that the oversight of the PMO can be better facilitated with a specific plan on how to progress towards that objective.