P3O stands for Portfolio, Programme and /or Project Office. It is a framework put together by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) the Association of Project Management Group (APMG) and their publisher the TSO. It is supposed to resolve the problem of a total lack of industry best practice benchmarks for the promotion, set-up and execution of Project /Portfolio Management Offices (PMO).
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Click – Onshore /Offshore Process Map – to download Zipped PowerPoint File.
Looking at some of the rankings on Google of some of my old posts it would appear over the last year that I have become one of the main critics of Scrum /Agile:-
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The Final Verdict 
A well known management consultancy house recently asked me review of their existing portfolio of PMO executed programmes of work with the objective of developing the following artefacts :-
- A PMO vision statement
- Development of a standardised out-of-the-box PMO execution blueprint (covering set-up /operational roadmap) capable of being reused and executed on all future large scale programmes of work.
- Revise, and update where necessary, all process definitions /procedures which would be used to execute a standardised PMO Blueprint.
This consultancy really seemed to have connected with the whole concept of how PMO’s could be used as a powerhouse of efficiency and profitability on large scale programmes of work.
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The Best Engine For Success
For the Pros and Cons of other PMO models please see blogg posts Managing PMO, Consulting PMO or PSO
Seen through the eyes of a deploying Managing Consultant this model draws on the best features of the Managing and Consulting PMO models to create a hybrid model between the managing and the consulting PMO models. This drives and supports project management practices via a centralising PMO, but with the majority of the management of individual projects /programmes resting with formalised partnerships between individual end client business units and on-the-ground project /programme management resource.
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For the Pros and Cons of other PMO models please see blogg posts Consulting PMO, Facilitative Managing PMO
This is where a PMO serves as the central governing project /programme management body driving the delivery of a programme or a group of related programmes.
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