Executive's Guide to Project Management: Organizational Processes and Practices for Supporting Complex Projects

Putting It All Together

Chapter 10, Organizing and Defining Your Project Support Office, and this chapter provide both the definition and a template implementation plan for establishing your PSO. That should be your starting point but there is more to consider. The SMT needs to start thinking about future evolution of the PSO. The complexity and uncertainty of the emerging project management world gives good reason to think about the effective support of projects and how the PSO must respond. That is the topic of Chapter 12, The Future of the Project Support Office.