Time to Take your PMO to the Next Level?

Carlos Eduardo Martins Serra

Author

The BRM-PMO Guide is as an easy-to-follow combination of research and real-life experience, produced by a practitioner for other practitioners.

Benefits Realization Management for PMO Practitioners

(BRM-PMO Guide)

What You’ll Get From This Practice Guide

The BRM-PMO Guide provides an easy-to-follow three-step process that will enable PMO practitioners to assume a pivotal role in the benefits realization management process and consequently in the creation of strategic value to their organizations through successful projects, programs, and portfolios.

Learn how a PMO can support benefits realization management

The guide provides the PMO practitioner with a framework composed of 90 categories of BRM activities that can involve PMOs in multiple ways. The activities, found through a cross-sector research, are grouped into fifteen areas of activity that are presented in a logical sequence across three steps: preparing, planning and realizing.

Assess how your PMO can deliver more value to the organization

The PMO practitioner can use the framework as a reference to assess the current status of their PMO, identify areas for improvement, estimate additional capabilities needed, and then prioritize which improvements would enable the PMO to deliver more value to the organization.

Tailor the framework to match the needs of your organization

Finally, the PMO practitioner can tailor the framework to create a fit-for-purpose framework for their own organisation. Depending on the level of maturity of the organisation and on some of its specific characteristics, some categories of activities may benefit from heavier involvement of the PMO, while other categories may not need their involvement,

About Carlos Eduardo Martins Serra

The author has worked in project management since 1999, across a variety of market sectors, countries, and roles. He managed projects and programs, led PMO functions and teams of Project Managers, and designed and implemented project frameworks and methodologies.

In 2011/2012, his landmark master's research at the University of Warwick had support from the Association for Project Management and the Project Management Institute. It resulted in the first detailed evidence of the positive influence of BRM practices on seven dimensions and three perspectives of project success. His work generated a lot of repercussion globally and influenced a change of culture regarding benefits.

He is the author of the book Benefits Realization Management: Strategic Value from Portfolios, Programs and Projects (2016, CRC Press) and of Gerenciamento da Realização de Benefícios (2018, Brasport), the first complete book on this subject to be published in Portuguese.

He was also a reviewer of Benefits Realization Management: A Practice Guide (2019, PMI), which references one of his books and two of his articles.

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