Building Value through Sustainable Project Management Offices
- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Project Management Journal
- Vol. 40 (1), 55-72
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pmj.20095
Abstract
Organizations’ attempts to implement and gain value from investments in project management have resulted in the rapid growth and, in some cases, demise of project management offices (PMOs). The recent research literature on PMOs provides an ambiguous picture of the value case for PMOs and suggests the tenuous nature of their current position in many organizations. In studying project management implementations for the Value of Project Management project, we chose to use three detailed cases and comparisons with the remaining 62 organizations in the value project to study how PMOs are connected to value realization for organizations investing in project management. Specifically, we sought to understand how PMOs deliver sustained value to organizations. Using the theories of Jim Collins (Collins, 2001; Collins & Porras, 1994) as an interpretive framework, we explore these cases to understand how to create and sustain project management value through investment in PMOs.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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