The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management

3.4. Institutionalizing Project Management Takes Commitment

Some senior managers and many mid-level managers have set about implementing project management practices and processes and creating a project management office for their business units, but they have met with varying degrees of success. The most successful are the managers of a business unit within an enterprise that is operated almost as a standalone business. Those project management processes and PMO implementations that were set up within lower level business units and those not set up as operational functions were completely eliminated during periods of lowered business activity. This occurred because the associated practices and processes were neither institutionalized nor matured ...