IT PMO Consulting
Driving IT Project Success with Strategic IT PMO Guidance
Setting up or optimising an IT Project Management Office (PMO) can be challenging, especially when aligning it with business goals and ensuring consistent project delivery across complex environments. Saros Consulting offers independent advice on building and refining IT PMOs to enhance governance, standardise processes, deliver internal customer needs and improve project outcomes.
We set your PMO up for success and deliver excellence for your business
Standardised Processes
Organisations often struggle with inconsistent project delivery due to a lack of standardised methodologies and processes across projects. This inconsistency can lead to delays, cost overruns, and fragmented reporting. Saros Consulting advises on establishing robust frameworks, such as PRINCE2 or Agile, that can be tailored to your organisation’s needs. We help design methodologies that ensure consistency, visibility, and control, enabling your IT PMO to drive predictable and successful project outcomes.
Governance Structures Aligned with Business Strategy
An IT PMO can lose relevance if it’s not closely aligned with business objectives. Misalignment often results in prioritising the wrong projects or failing to deliver strategic value. Saros Consulting helps you design an IT PMO that directly supports your business goals by ensuring strategic alignment in project prioritisation, portfolio management, and resource allocation. We advise on creating governance structures that bridge IT and business teams, ensuring that your PMO drives initiatives that support long-term objectives.
Resource Optimisation and Capacity Planning
Balancing resources across multiple IT projects is a common challenge, leading to overextended teams or underutilised talent. Saros Consulting offers strategic advice on resource management and capacity planning, helping you implement tools and processes to optimise resource allocation. We guide you on identifying skills gaps, optimising team performance, and managing competing demands, ensuring that your IT PMO operates efficiently and projects are adequately resourced.
Project Visibility and Reporting
Effective reporting is crucial for decision-making, yet many IT PMOs struggle with fragmented data and inconsistent metrics, resulting in limited visibility for stakeholders.Saros Consulting advises on implementing comprehensive reporting systems that provide clear, real-time insights into project performance, risks, and benefits. We help define KPIs, standardise dashboards, and create governance models that enhance transparency, ensuring that decision-makers have the information they need to keep projects on track.
How We Can Help You
Achieve excellence across your IT organisation with our comprehensive approach to enhancing efficiencies and delivering superior results. A well-structured IT PMO is key to delivering projects that drive business value. Saros Consulting offers tailored advice on establishing and refining your IT PMO, ensuring it aligns with strategic objectives while providing the frameworks, visibility, and governance needed for consistent project success.
Case Study
Certa
Maximising Efficiency in the Energy Sector
One of Ireland’s largest energy companies was going through transformational change through the confluence of numerous energy brands and product diversification. This transformation has resulted in several large projects key to strategic success as well as numerous operational improvement initiatives driving business efficiencies. Through the process of rebranding, the management team recognised the need to establish project management as a practice to enable a more structured approach to managing multiple projects simultaneously as the organisation integrates and grows.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the increased number of strategic and operational projects, several key challenges were identified, this included visibility of total capacity versus demand of key resources, consistency in project execution processes, alignment of projects to strategic priorities, effective project planning, control and reporting, and levels of project management knowledge / skills within the business.
Saros Consulting was engaged to assist address these challenges and embed project management as a practice through developing a project delivery capability that aligns projects with corporate strategy through an effective execution lifecycle.
Case Study
Certa
Low Project Management Maturity Level
With the discipline of Project Management being relatively new to the organisation, we focused on implementing the basic elements of a sound project management practice, some of which included: Determining the maturity of existing project management practices within the business and the unique characteristics of the organisation in relation to managing change. Creating a project management framework based on the organisation’s project management maturity, to act as a guide to project decisions and enable a consistent approach to project prioritisation, planning and execution. Introducing a fit-for-purpose project governance structure to provide direction, make decisions and ensure projects are visible and routinely reviewed. Establishing a Project Office to manage the PM processes, tools and templates, and provide support to the project governance structures. Working collaboratively with the leadership team in reviewing, aligning and prioritising projects to strategic objectives to ensure teams work on projects that move the organisation forward. Continuously engaging the leadership team to ensure active and visible sponsorship of the project management practices.
Case Study
Certa
Project Success
Saros approach led to project success with the following results: Enhanced visibility of capacity and demand, enabling improved prioritisation of projects. Successful implementation of a fit-for-purpose project management framework and project management tool. Establishment of a Project Management Office. Successful delivery of several post-merger integration projects. Increased Project Management knowledge and skills across the business. Improved planning, execution and control of projects. Significant increase in the utilisation of the project management framework and project management tool among management teams.
