According to the Project Management Institute® in a presentation published in 2018, 31% of all projects fail to meet their original goals, 43% finish at a higher cost than originally budgeted, and 48% don’t finish on time.  Why is that?  

These numbers come from companies with established Project Management Offices embedded within organizations that deliver products and services completely unrelated to project management itself.

We believe the root cause to these kinds of statistics is organizations have a need to focus on what they do best, which is often something other than project management.  When organizations specialize in the delivery of a specific product or service, things like project management are not at the core of their business; therefore, project management itself is not well developed.

BPMO was created to specialize in project management as a professional service.  Just as your business excels at delivering what it does best, BPMO excels at project management and maintains a high-end company culture with heavy investments in continuous project management related training, community involvement and full-time talent to ensure projects are successful for our customers.

For example, consider what your organization delivers to customers and what talents you need to hire and continuously develop to stay competitive and profitable.  What are the top 5 – 10 skills your staff need to deliver your products and services on a day-to-day basis while staying competitive and profitable? 

Critical skills for a graphics design company may be artistic skills, graphics software, specialty hardware, etc., and while these are great skills to have for your business they generally don’t contributed to the core skills needed to manage projects should your company need to upgrade the network and hardware infrastructure to support your team member’s evolving needs.

Here’s our list of critical skills to plan, manage and deliver successful projects:

• Budget Management
• Change Management
• Communication Management
• Conflict Management
• Emotional Intelligence
• Leadership
• Reporting
• Risk Management
• Requirements Management
• Scope Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Task Management

The above skills are central to BPMO’s success, and we both use them and develop high levels of expertise to the degree we can be thought leaders in these areas and educate people about them.

Our company, like most any other company, also has products to deliver to our customers.  For BMPO, this means doing everything necessary to deliver the following throughout the life of a project:

• Business Requirements Matrix
• Change Controls
• Communication Plans
• Cost Management Plans
• Design Documents
• Lessons Learned
• Operational Handover
• Project Charter
• Project Closure Presentation
• Project Management Plans
• Project Schedule
• RACI Charts
• Resource Management Plan
• Risk Management Plan
• Scope Documents
• Stakeholder Management Plan
• Technical Approaches
• Test Plans
• Test Results
• Training Plans
• Vendor Management Plans

The above list is just the usual set of products we deliver on most projects.  Your organization is unique, and your project’s needs will also be unique.

We also provide all the project management staff necessary to manage any project.  These roles include the following at a minimum:

• Business Analyst
• Project Coordinator
• Project Manager
• Technical Writer
• Tester

In addition to providing the core project management staff, we also provide the option of using our Information Technology staff.  This gives organizations an extra option to limit the impact to daily operations with their own technical staff, or to provide technical staff to non-technical organizations.

Recommended Next Steps

Now that you have been introduced to what we do, we invite you to contact us for a free consultation, to request a response to a proposal you have, or just to start with a simple discussion to build a long-term business relationship with for future endeavors.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about our Project Management Services, and we look forward to helping your next project be a success.