Project Office Guidelines

Project Office Guidelines

These general guidelines are presented here. Additional information can be found in the Perform Assessments Service page, and the PMO can use its own Assessments Service to perform this research.

Definition must precede measurement

The PMO has already defined high-level objectives and goals in its Business Case, PMO Charter, and Execution Plan. It has defined the steps that it believes will achieve these goals in the Execution Plan as well. To achieve measurability, the PMO must re-examine those goals and make sure that they are well-enough defined to be measurable.

This is most easily explained with an example. Let us take a useful one: Improving the project success rate. At first, this seems simple: A certain number of projects are launched each year, and some succeed, while others fail. The success rate is the percentage of all projects launched that succeed.