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welcomeThe Project Executive Forum is an e-community designed to bring project executives together to share knowledge and exchange ideas in order to enhance their own project management practices and those of their organizations.

Membership is restricted to Project Executives, defined as senior level project professional who have authority over project teams, budgets, offices and/or programs & portfolios. Examples of Project Executive titles include, but are not limited to:

  • C-Level Executives
  • VP or AVP Level
  • Director Level with authority over Project Team & Budget
  • Portfolio or Program Manager
  • Portfolio or Program Director
  • PMO Director or Manager

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Feature Article

There's a reason IT PMOs fail

Only a third of IT PMOs will ever work, and the rest of 'em won't. For the mathematically challenged, such as myself, that means that two-thirds of all IT project management offices (or program management offices, or whatever you want to call them) will fail. Nothing scientific in these numbers, mind you, and I didn't do an extensive survey. This is just what I've seen myself, and you're going to have to take it (or not) on faith.

In my line of business, I see lots and lots of PMOs - in fact, I'd say that they've become almost fashionable in the last couple of years; you can't seem to turn around without someone setting up, re-energizing or re-engineering an IT PMO. There's even a conference or two dedicated exclusively to IT PMOs; one recently wrapped up in Savannah, Ga. And I'll bet some expert in Savannah told the attendees: "Two-thirds of PMOs will fail, present company excepted, of course."

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