Our Services
Delivering the strategic function your organization deserves.
Most transformation efforts don’t fail at the strategy table. They fail in the months after — when the roadmap is approved, the board is watching, and there’s no engine built to actually move it forward. That’s the gap The PMO Architect closes: turning strategic intent into governed, adopted, measurable execution.
Every engagement draws on the same underlying discipline — project and portfolio management, organizational change management, and Lean Six Sigma — deployed not as separate methodologies but as one integrated execution capability, sized to where you actually are.
What that looks like in practice depends on where you are.
Some organizations need a PMO built from the ground up — designed for strategic leverage from day one, not retrofitted later. Others need an honest assessment of what exists, training to elevate the team, or a staffing framework to ensure the right people are in the right roles. Some need structured templates and guided frameworks that leave a lasting capability behind, long after the engagement ends.
Every service The PMO Architect offers exists across a spectrum — from assessment and full stand-up to lightweight framework — so the engagement matches your organization’s needs, not a predetermined model.
Core Services
The Strategy Execution Assessment
When your transformation strategy or AI projects are stalling, we start here. One fixed fee assessment that delivers: issue points, solution options, roadmap & recommendations. Learn more about the process.
PMO Design & Stand-up
Building or rebuilding a delivery function designed for strategic impact, with governance, intake, risk visibility, and outcome tracking built in from the start.
Best practice: complete the Strategy Execution Assessment first. However, this can be done independently if a PMO, VMO, or other project office is needed regardless.
Staffing & Talent Assessment
Identifying, evaluating, and onboarding the right project leadership talent using a proprietary assessment framework developed and proven across complex, high-volume delivery environments.
Check out our Leadership Knowledge Checks page for current offerings, or contact us for custom options!
Organizational Change Management
Ensuring that what gets built actually gets adopted, using Prosci and ACMP-aligned approaches that put the human side of change at the center of every initiative.
Best practice: an embedded OCM office within your PMO, VMO, or delivery function. Project leaders trained in OCM key principles to ensure adoption is in your critical path.
Lean Six Sigma
From embedding LSS discipline into existing delivery processes to standing up a full LSS office, bringing rigorous process improvement and Voice of the Customer thinking to project and portfolio management.
Belt level training can be included – but the project methods, intake, and discipline is the key for success.
FAQs
We just finished a strategic planning session and built a roadmap – what is different?
Most strategy sessions – especially led or facilitated by a consulting firm – end with the roadmap file and a handshake. My assessment is about the execution itself – including the right sequences, ownership, adoption methods and challenges, your readiness, and much more. I close the gap between what and how, and help you make sure your team succeeds.
This sounds like a big commitment. We don’t have budget or bandwidth for another engagement like the strategy piece.
It doesn’t have to be big. Working with me means a spectrum of options, based on what you really need. Most times we’ll start small, and only grow if it’s proving out.
Will this replace our internal team or leaders?
No. My goal for every engagement is to give your organization the knowledge, tools, and guidance to do it with your own staff, your own systems. I don’t leave behind PowerPoint files, I leave behind trained people and a transitioned structure, not permanent dependency on outside help.
How do we get value, and not just more meetings and status reports?
We decide on 2-3 concrete, measurable outcomes that align with your future success, and number of trainings isn’t one of them. We want to see adoption of new ways of working, roadmap items that are closed or ‘shipped’, and other business metrics that matter to you.
Where does AI fit into this?
The same way any roadmap item does. AI initiatives usually stall for the same reasons everything else does – unclear ownership, losing priority as day-to-day fires erupt, poor governance to ensure required time needed. The execution discipline doesn’t change based on what’s on the roadmap.
If you are asking about AI as a tool of my process instead – absolutely, AI has a role to play. Depending on your comfort level and approved enterprise AI tool, we can embed AI functionality where appropriate.
The right engagement starts with the right conversation. If something in your delivery function isn’t working — or if you’re building something new and want to design it well from the start — let’s talk.