PMO Health Check: Assess Your PMO’s Current State
Assess your PMO maturity level and diagnose problem areas before you invest in a comprehensive PMO maturity assessment.
We’ve created a project management office health check to help you assess your PMO maturity level and diagnose problem areas before you invest in a comprehensive PMO maturity assessment. Learn why PMO maturity matters and how to take your first steps toward transformation.
Too often, an organization’s project management office (PMO) can become another layer of bureaucracy instead of the powerful asset it should be.
PMOs at their most effective are agile, data-driven resources that earn trust across the enterprise. They support strategic decision-making, excel at aligning stakeholders, enable strategic decision-making, and demonstrate measurable value. Instead of being process checkpoints and record-keepers, they enable business transformation.
Less effective PMOs, on the other hand, can hinder progress, erode trust, and fail to align with evolving business needs.
Unfortunately, research shows that while most PMOs use a mix of project management approaches — waterfall, agile, hybrid — many struggle to establish themselves as trusted partners in delivering value.
The difference comes down to PMO maturity. But how do you know if your PMO is mature and effective, or immature and struggling?
The best way is to assess your PMO with a regular, comprehensive PMO maturity check. Such assessments include stakeholder interviews across the organization, industry benchmarking, custom roadmap development, and much more.
As you might imagine, fully assessing your PMO maturity represents significant investments in time and resources. That’s why we created an easy “PMO Health Check” to assess your PMO’s current state.
In minutes, the health check will help you assess your PMO’s current maturity level, show you where to focus any improvement efforts, and help you decide whether to go deeper with a full PMO maturity assessment.
How Our PMO Health Check Works
Using simple checklists and a Red Flag system, our current-state assessment identifies opportunities and challenges across six critical areas:
- Communications: Are misunderstandings and stakeholder resistance common? Is PMO communication seen as strategic or merely administrative?
- Decision-Making: Are project decisions based on data or intuition? Does your PMO proactively drive business impact?
- Value Demonstration: Can you quantify your PMO’s contribution to business outcomes, or is it viewed as a cost center?
- Organizational Alignment: Is your PMO structure evolving with the business? Are agile teams and business units aligned?
- Future Readiness: How well does your PMO adapt to changing priorities and embrace innovation?
- AI and Digital Enablement: Is your PMO using automation and digital tools, or relying on manual processes?
The assessment also highlights critical warning signs that require immediate action, such as executives who question your PMO’s value, stakeholders who resist the PMO’s recommendations, or decision-makers who go by their gut rather than the data.
“What If Assessing My PMO Tells Me It’s Not Mature?”
At Centric Consulting, our approach to comprehensive PMO maturity assessments is holistic. We interview people at all levels, evaluate your processes, conduct benchmarking and gap analyses, and more.
We also focus heavily on organizational culture, and we can draw on other parts of our organization to help with strategic planning, change management, technology integration, and ongoing optimization.
However, the first step to maturing your PMO is to understand your current position. To take that step, just download our PMO assessment and begin to grow your PMO into a driver of innovation, value, and enterprise-wide trust.
