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PMO Value Ring™
The new PMI's Strategic Framework for Designing, Managing, and Evolving Value-Driven PMOs.
A Practical Framework to Enhance PMO Value and Impact
The PMO Value Ring™ Framework, featured in "Project Management Offices: A Practice Guide," a Project Management Institute (PMI) publication, is designed to shape the future of PMOs and support PMO leaders in building, operating, and evolving value-driven offices.
Developed from the experience of hundreds of successful PMO leaders worldwide, this framework helps organizations align PMO services with strategic priorities, enhance stakeholder engagement, and optimize efficiency, ensuring PMOs deliver measurable business impact.
Shifting from rigid PMO models and types to an adaptive, customer-centric approach empowers PMO professionals to position the PMO as a strategic enabler.
Building Blocks of a Value-Driven Framework
PMO Customers
As the central figure in the framework, the PMO Customer ensures that all services, structures, and decisions are intentionally designed to address their unique needs, expectations, and strategic priorities, ultimately driving meaningful and sustainable value across the organization.
Organizational Baseline Elements
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Organizational Strategy
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Organizational Culture and Maturity
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Organizational Structure
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Industry-Specific Profile
Establishes the fundamental backbone of any PMO, as a deep understanding of the organization's challenges, strategic direction, governance structures, and cultural dynamics is crucial to defining what truly constitutes value, enabling the PMO to stay relevant, and aligned with evolving business needs.
PMO Structural Components
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PMO Mandate
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PMO Governance
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PMO Strategy
Defines the foundational structure for the PMO’s mandate, governance, and strategic direction, ensuring clarity, accountability, and sustained value delivery while aligning its role with organizational objectives and customers' expectations, ultimately positioning the PMO as a critical enabler of enterprise success.
PMO Customer Experience Cycle
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Exploration
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Design
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Deployment
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Enhancement
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Realization
Ensures a customer-centric approach by mapping PMO customer interactions across five key stages, allowing the PMO to proactively understand needs, optimize service delivery, enhance customer engagement, and ultimately drive measurable value recognition and long-term strategic impact.
Value-Generating PMO Flywheel
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Awareness Building
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Needs Assessment
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Value Proposition
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Service Development
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Service Onboarding
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Service Operation
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Service Monitoring
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Service Improvement
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Value Delivery
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Value Recognition
Provides a structured and iterative model that enables the PMO to continuously adapt to organizational needs by aligning services with strategic priorities, strengthening customer engagement, enhancing operational efficiency, and evolving its maturity to sustain value and establish itself as a critical strategic asset.
Become PMI-PMOCP certified
The PMI-PMOCP (PMO Certified Professional) is PMI’s gold standard certification for PMO professionals, validating expertise in designing, implementing, and optimizing value-driven PMOs.
Grounded on the "Project Management Offices: A Practice Guide" and its PMO Value Ring™ Framework, this certification develops and validates PMO professionals' skills to align PMOs with strategic priorities and drive measurable business impact.
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Certification
3+ years of experience
Learn new and advanced practices to set up, assess, manage and improve value-oriented PMOs.