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

Putting It All Together

The PSO of the future that I am calling a BP⁴SO is a marked change from the PMO of today in two respects. First of all, it supports projects, programs, processes, and portfolios not just projects. So the BP⁴SO can embrace the entire spectrum of complexity, uncertainty, and risk that are part of the complex project management world. Second of all, it supports the four disciplines that are part of that complex project management world; namely, project management, business analysis, business processes, and information technology.

As projects span the entire organization and even embrace multiple organizations, the need for processes to manage projects that involve multiple and independent teams is paramount. Three models that have been shown to work in practice were presented: PO, CT, and ST.