Project management offices could be more effective

12.07.2011

Fifty-seven percent of Singaporean PMOs said they formally report on and measure their own effectiveness compared to the global mean at 52 percent.

About 60 percent of respondents claimed that their PMO's value has been questioned and 76 percent of non-PMO staff said their organisation either does not measure or they do not know whether it measures PMO effectiveness.

Forty percent of respondents said their PMO is operating to a fair or poor extent; 72 percent agree the PMO is strongest in conveying methodologies and other PM 'hard' skills; and 35 percent agree that the PMO is weakest in reviewing the effectiveness of training and its impact on project and programme performance.

The measurement of training impact is more common in the Asia Pacific region, with only 18 percent reporting that they do not measure training impact.