Imagine a dynamic repository of company best practices, ready to guide projects to excellent conclusions. It’s possible with program and project offices.

Effective program and project offices are key enablers of improved business results. They come in many forms and can serve a variety of functions. Program and project offices can add value at the strategic, portfolio, program or project level of the organization. They range from pure project support offices to being accountable for directly managing programs, projects and project managers.

When aligned with an organization’s strategy, program and project offices flourish, regardless of the structure and responsibility assigned them.

Program Navigators has a strong track record of helping companies and government agencies design, develop and implement program and project offices. Using our proven methodology, we can help you realize the significant benefits of operating the right type of program or project office.

We assess your environment using our Program and Project Office Assessment Tool, which evaluates more than 20 critical parameters of successful offices. Paying close attention to your organization’s culture, maturity and structure, we integrate your program or project office strategy into your overall "business results improvement" strategy to create an office that suits your needs.

We design, develop and implement your program or project office with both short-term and long-term goals in mind. The short-term focus delivers results right away and the long-term focus recognizes that program and project offices go through life cycles of their own as your organization’s needs mature. That’s why our solutions are flexible and scaleable over time.

Because we understand that implementing a program or project office requires change in organizational and individual behavior, we apply our proven organizational change management methodology to each step of the process. We can staff your program or project office while we train your permanent staff and then ensure a smooth transition.

Building program and project offices is hard work. It takes commitment. We roll up our sleeves and work beside you to achieve success.

Program and project offices help you deliver business results. A program or project office:

• Acts as champion and manager of organizational improvement programs.
• Provides management with a single point of accountability.
• Develops, maintains and leverages organizational program and project standards and methodologies for enterprisewide consistency.
• Owns the organization’s program and project managers and takes responsibility for their career development.
• Is accountable for delivery of programs and projects or provides support and visibility to management and project managers.
• Collects lessons learned to leverage what works and improve what doesn’t.
• Acts as a repository of the organization’s best practices.
• Maintains program and project systems for consistency and continual improvement.
• Provides cost and scheduling support, giving program and project managers more time to manage.
• Develops, manages and owns an organization’s program and project training effort for efficiencies and consistency.
• Streamlines the flow of information and facilitates communication.
• Provides project health checks and recovery plans.
• Coaches and mentors senior managers, program managers and project managers.