PMO Strategy
Maturity
We help our clients become more efficient.
As a leader in the PMO space, Delane partners with clients to drive business transformations by providing flexible and specialized PMO and Program Management consulting services coupled with our award-winning LBA™ (Lean Business Agility) framework. Our services and capabilities center around the PMI OPM3 Maturity Model and Delane’s PMO Maturity Framework™.
Delane brings extensive PMO experience with a roster of proven PMO and Program Management leadership professionals from multiple industry segments. We've either initiated, guided, or transformed solid PMO structures for multiple functional areas within large Fortune 500 companies.
Delane’s leadership team led a Fortune 20 company to its first Global PMO award recognized by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
PMO Services
PMO Maturity Assessment & Healthchecks
Evaluation of current health of PMO Maturity utilizing Capability Model.
Complete PMO Maturity Transformations
Working with clients to define strategic roadmaps, target milestones, provide guidance on business transformation activities, and drive toward a sustainable PMO.
Governance & Strategy Approach
Implement enterprise governance using systems and procedures designed to structure authority, balance responsibility, and provide accountability to stakeholders at all levels to balance profitability and meet customer needs.
Change Management & Stakeholder Management
Ensuring effective communications, strategic alignment, and multilateral support from key roles and functions in the organization.
Portfolio Management & Prioritization
Establish a standardized project portfolio framework to ensure that the most valuable projects are prioritized, approved, and managed within the organization.
Program & Portfolio Dashboard Approach
Visualizing key performance indicators and overall portfolio health to drive strategic insights and informed decision-making at an executive level.
Resource Management Maturity & Approach
Establish a standardized approach to make informed decisions for resource allocation.
SDLC Standardization & Best Practices
Determine and document metrics and key performance indicators for ongoing SDLC process leveraging industry best practices.
LBA (Lean Business Agility) Integration Within PMO
Ensuring appropriate alignment with Assessment, Discovery, and Delivery activities to ensure customer value – from start to finish.
High-Touch-Low-Touch Framework & Approach
TM
Establishing appropriate criteria and classification mechanisms to ensure the right level of sponsorship and engagement for projects and initiatives.
PMO Templates
Leveraging industry best practices to standardize critical inputs and drivers for informed and effective portfolio management.
Demand Management
Work closely with client’s portfolio manager to design a project intake process to fit their unique capacity situation. This intake process includes empirical prioritization techniques that guarantee a healthy, balanced, sustainable, and profitable project mix.
PMO Training, Coaching & Consulting
Engaging with client partners to build awareness and expertise.
Benefits Management & Realization
Assessing, managing and realizing the benefits of projects and programs to determine opportunity viability, technical feasibility and overall alignment with strategy.
Client Success
GOVERNANCE STRATEGY AND APPROACH
Established a Governance Council and Process to manage, approve, and allocate dedicated capital funding to the Project Portfolio.
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RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Implemented an organizational-specific resource management process and tool that provided complete visibility into skillsets, capacity, and availability across the project portfolio.
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Implemented an organizational-wide Portfolio Prioritization Framework and Process that increased visibility and intelligent business decisions into a 500 project organization.
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PMO AND LBA INTEGRATION
Integrated Delane’s LBA framework with client’s PMO processes that provided quicker project releases that realized 10 percent higher NPV due to earlier benefit realizations.
Case Study
A major Telecommunications company sought out Delane to help optimize their PMO organization with the following:​​
Results: ​​
Portfolio Management and Prioritization and more efficient Capital Planning Process.
Governance Activity Definition and Execution.
Demand Management and Intake Process.
Resource Management and better visibility into projects and resources.
Benefits Management Framework with Benefits Realization.
PMO maturity roadmap developed with key leaders.
Project Portfolio Framework & Prioritization established and operationalized with key value drivers.
Visualized and operationalized a PMO Governance Council and Process.
Demand Management and Intake Process integrated within Portfolio Management and Governance Process.
Completely overhauled the Finance Capital Planning process with more efficient funding distribution.
Established Resource Management framework for greater visibility.
Strategized and established overall Benefits Management framework.
Executed a complete organizational transformation with Agile using Delane's LBA (Lean Business Agility) Model.