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

Chapter 11

Growing and Maturing Your Project Support Office

If you do not now have a Project Support Office (PSO) in place expect to spend up to two years to put a functional PSO in place like the one described in Chapter 10. In this chapter I will share a template project plan for establishing a PSO. If you have some type of Project Management Office (PMO) in place now, the implementation plan will accommodate evolving your PMO to the type of PSO recommended in Chapter 10. Both Chapter 10 and 11 set the foundation for discussing and implementing the PSO of the future, which is the topic of Chapter 12, The Future of the Project Support Office.