Outsourcing

To be fair, organizations desperately need new models of PMOs. Despite of research, frameworks and tools, most PMOs fail to achieve their mission and to deliver benefits, which explains a third trend we observe currently: outsourced PMOs and project management services.

Although it would be nice to have a good in-house PMO and to build internal project management capabilities, some organizations find it too cumbersome and time consuming. Besides, there is a perception that consulting companies specialized in project management are more capable to provide those services with excellence and at a reasonable price.

Project management services might include the planning, execution and control of a single project or a set of projects. It is a growing business for consulting companies and project management IT providers (platform, templates, methodology etc). As a matter of fact, outsourced project management is propelling PMO As a Service. And we expect to observe new players on that field.