Need success stories on the implementation of PMO in Construction companies
Mon, 2012-07-16 20:45
Need to gather information on success stories on the implementation of PMO in Construction companies. As much detail as possile will be appreciated. At this point location is not a key factor, but eventually we need to zero-in on Latin America.
Customer is interested in implementing a PMO but will rather go down the treaded highway, so success stories are key to closing the deal.
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Thu, 2012-07-19 14:01
#1
Miguel,
in Mostotrest it was an evolution. This company cosists of many smaller regional companies that are called Mostotryads.
One of them implemented PM system, then another one looking at the leader decided to implement the same, later good results of the pioneers were noticed in the Headquarter and it was decided to implement PM system in the whole company. It took years and since then the scale of their projects become several times larger, they made IPO in London, and now become one of the largest and most successful infrastructure construction company in Russia. Their competitors know that Mostotrest can work for the lower price and still have profit. They select what tenders to win.
It is hard to compare companies with $200mln and $2bln budgets.
It was not necessary to defend business case. Implementation was initiated by senior managers and Financial Director was implementation team sponsor. They wanted to become more competitive and become most competitive.
Thu, 2012-07-19 07:13
#2
Vladimir,
Thank you for your reply, the information you provide on Mostotrest's PMO is very interesting. To make this a success story I would need to be able to compare a Before / After scenario. That is, what were the results in Mostotrest project execution before implementing the PMO and what were the results after the PMO was implemented, in terms of project control, project costs, schedule, scope management, customer satisfaction, number of projects managed simultaneously, or any other metric that Mostotrest may have used to support their PMO business case.
Do you have that sort of information on-hand or could it be obtained?
Regards,
Miguel
Thu, 2012-07-19 07:13
#3
Vladimir,
Thank you for your reply, the information you provide on Mostotrest's PMO is very interesting. To make this a success story I would need to be able to compare a Before / After scenario. That is, what were the results in Mostotrest project execution before implementing the PMO and what were the results after the PMO was implemented, in terms of project control, project costs, schedule, scope management, customer satisfaction, number of projects managed simultaneously, or any other metric that Mostotrest may have used to support their PMO business case.
Do you have that sort of information on-hand or could it be obtained?
Regards,
Miguel
Thu, 2012-07-19 05:30
#4
Miguel,
what kind of success stories do you need?
Construction companies with PMO are not that rare in Russia.
One example is Mostotrest - large infrastrustructure construction company that ha central PMO, project management standards, regional PMOs, portfolio management. In this company all solutions are based on cost estimates, all project models are resource and cost loaded and leveled, planners use corporate databases (reference-books) that contain corporate norms, templates for typical project WBS, etc. They are very competitive and one of the local market leaders.
They use Spider Project as a corporate PM system for more than 10 years. Earlier they tried Timeline and Open Plan but were not satisfied by their functionality.
Best Regards,
Vladimir
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