Tag: Project Management Office Organizational Structure

Besides deadlines and a failed project success, there is another factor that everyone, especially the project manager, is dreading about: PMO downsizing.   It’s basically the opposite of PMO upsizing where selected employees have to be reduced due to budget constraints, business project and partnerships went kaput, and other factors that weaken the system of the whole organization. PMO downsizing affects different angles of the team as well as its function and it might lower their motivation when one of them has to walk.     As a project manager, it automatically is a given that you’re the bearer...

Organizations make it a point to look for additional employees to add to their roster of talented teams to take on new projects and tasks; this is a great opportunity for job seekers or to those want to be transferred to another department and work with a new environment. That is why they resort to PMO upsizing — a process where they hire or add someone from a different department to another team to boost that team’s capabilities and manpower.   There are many ways to implement PMO upsizing and usually, it’s the additional employees to make an existing team...