12.6. KEEPING UP THE MOMENTUM

Now that PPM is in place, one of the prime responsibilities of the PMO is to maintain the continuous deployment across the organization so they become embedded into "business as usual."

Chapter 11 discussed how executive sponsorship is critical to the ongoing success of the PPM process. The governance board (or PPM board or decision review board), PMO, and the project management standards committee are described in that chapter along with other groups or committees that can help to keep PPM alive and effective. As mentioned above, communications on a monthly or quarterly basis to the organization at large on progress and success stories is also critical to success. A key element of this is keeping the project managers—the primary information providers to the PMO—aware that their informational updates are being reviewed and that they have a voice in the organization and can help to improve the overall process.

Another way to keep the organizations engaged is to publish a PPM roadmap. This shows the nature of the journey that the organization has embarked upon and how PPM will evolve as the organization matures. This should be used more as a guide, not an absolute direction, and needs to be adjusted and modified as the organization itself changes in response to market realities.