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IT Project Management Office (PMO)

Create a clear operating model for your IT portfolio. PlanAxion builds or strengthens your PMO so leaders can prioritize initiatives, see capacity and dependencies, consolidate risk, and make decisions faster.

Vue portefeuillePriorités explicites
Décisions · gouvernanceRythmes adaptés à l’organisation
TI · ERP · transformationPortefeuilles complexes et multi-équipes
When the portfolio becomes opaque

A PMO becomes useful when projects compete for the same decisions.

The problem is rarely a lack of status reports. It is the absence of one view of value, capacity, dependencies and trade-offs. A PMO turns scattered project updates into portfolio decisions.

01

Everything is a priority

Without shared criteria, every initiative arrives with its own urgency. The portfolio grows without a real choice between value, risk and available capacity.

Signal terrain

A new initiative enters without another one being delayed, reduced or stopped.

02

Capacity is invisible

Projects are planned independently even though they rely on the same teams, specialists, environments and decision makers.

Signal terrain

The same people appear as available in several project plans at once.

03

Dependencies surface too late

A program can look healthy project by project while being blocked by a cross-portfolio dependency that nobody owns.

Signal terrain

Several timelines depend on the same prerequisite, but no committee owns the decision.

04

Reporting does not support decisions

Dozens of status updates can hide the real question: which projects should be accelerated, slowed, replanned or stopped.

Signal terrain

Leadership receives a lot of information but few clearly framed choices.

05

Committees review status instead of trade-offs

Without clear decision rights and escalation thresholds, steering committees become reporting meetings instead of places where blockers are resolved.

Signal terrain

The same issues return for weeks without a decision or clear owner.

06

Portfolio value becomes hard to defend

When projects keep moving independently of business objectives, it becomes difficult to explain why some initiatives still consume capacity and budget.

Signal terrain

You know how many projects are active, but not which ones still create the most value.

A good PMO does not create more reports. It makes trade-offs faster, capacity more realistic, and priorities harder to bypass.
What the PMO brings under control

One portfolio view to decide across many projects.

PlanAxion structures the portfolio, responsibilities, governance rhythms and decision data so leadership can manage value, capacity, dependencies and risk from one shared view.

01Priorisation

Portfolio prioritization

Use shared criteria to compare initiatives by business value, urgency, risk, capacity and dependencies.

Sortie attendueUn portefeuille où les priorités sont explicites.
02Gouvernance

Governance and decision rights

Define committees, owners, escalation thresholds and which decisions belong at project, program or executive level.

RésultatLes arbitrages arrivent au bon niveau, au bon moment.
03Capacité

Capacity and allocation

Consolidate demand, availability and critical skills before multiple initiatives are committed against the same capacity.

RésultatUne capacité réaliste avant de promettre des dates.
04Dépendances

Cross-project dependencies

Make data, architecture, resource, vendor and timeline dependencies visible across the portfolio.

RésultatLes blocages transversaux sont pilotés avant de devenir des retards.
05Risques

Consolidated risks and issues

Normalize risk assessment and escalate issues that affect several initiatives or require executive trade-offs.

RésultatUne vue commune des risques qui comptent réellement.
06Standards

Standards, rhythms and reporting

Simplify status, milestones, decisions and metrics so every project speaks a comparable language without unnecessary bureaucracy.

RésultatUn reporting comparable qui mène à des décisions.
07Écosystème

Programs, vendors and implementation partners

Coordinate external commitments and multi-vendor programs so ownership, dependencies and escalation remain visible to the client.

RésultatLe portefeuille reste gouverné par l’organisation, pas par les fournisseurs.
08Valeur

Benefits, adoption and closure

Track success beyond delivery: adoption, expected benefits, transition to operations and closure of commitments.

RésultatUn projet n’est terminé que lorsque la valeur peut être reprise par les opérations.

Le PMO s’adapte à votre maturité. PlanAxion peut bâtir le bureau de projets, renforcer un PMO existant ou prendre en charge une partie du pilotage de portefeuille.

Our approach

A useful PMO, not another administrative layer.

We match governance to portfolio size, organizational maturity and the decisions that actually need to be made. The goal is to simplify control, not multiply process.

Portfolio · governance · capacity · decisions
01

Diagnose

Map projects, committees, available data, pain points, capacity and the decisions slowing the portfolio.

Sortie
Une vue factuelle du fonctionnement actuel
02

Structure

Define governance, roles, escalation thresholds, minimum standards and the information required to manage the portfolio.

Sortie
Un modèle de PMO adapté à l’organisation
03

Prioritize

Apply shared criteria to trade off value, urgency, risk, capacity and dependencies across initiatives.

Sortie
Un portefeuille priorisé et séquencé
04

Run the portfolio

Establish portfolio rhythms, consolidate risk and dependencies, and prepare decisions instead of simply reporting status.

Sortie
Des comités qui tranchent plus vite
05

Improve

Evolve tools, metrics and practices based on results without locking the PMO into one methodology.

Sortie
Un bureau de projets qui gagne en maturité
Pas de PMO copié-collé.La gouvernance, les outils et le niveau de contrôle s’ajustent à votre portefeuille et à votre capacité interne.
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Need more control over your IT portfolio?

We can build the PMO with you, strengthen the existing model, or take over portfolio governance during a critical period.