PMO or xMO as a Service
A working project management office from the first week after scope is agreed, and a plan to hand it to your people.
We take on your project, programme or portfolio office: the reporting cycle, the portfolio dashboard, capability reviews, staff selection. Not consultants on the side, but people inside your process, with AI on the routine and the same standard of measurement as everywhere in Transform.
There is a moment when an organisation needs an office now and does not yet have the people who can run it, or has one person, on whom everything rests, and you both know it. Hiring a PMO director in a market where they are scarce is six months and a gamble. We offer something else: INSTAR runs the office from the first week after scope is agreed, reporting and portfolio visibility appear immediately, and in parallel we build the context, automate the routine and prepare your people to take the office over. Six months minimum, because in less the system does not take root, and monthly, because you should see what you are paying for. xMO is the same approach for a programme or portfolio office, or a transformation office, wherever several programmes must be held together and shown to leadership or a funder as one picture.
Same capability. Different accountability.
Adapt trains your PMO lead and team, and you run the office.
PMO as a Service is an office run by INSTAR until your people are ready to take it over, with handover written into the contract.
For organisations that need the office now and will have the capability to run it later
- →100+ companies that have outgrown their management system and want the portfolio under control without six months of hiring
- →Organisations whose PMO rests on one person
- →Programme leads and directors who must show a client, partner or funder one agreed portfolio status every month
- →Organisations after a System Build who want the first year run by the people who built it
- →Companies entering a large programme or reconstruction work that must prove they can absorb it
What it looks like month by month
Start
We agree the scope on the basis of the diagnostic: which projects and programmes are in, what the reporting cycle is, who sees what each month, who on your side works with us and who takes over. A named INSTAR lead from day one.
Visibility
The first reporting cycle and a portfolio dashboard, built from what exists. The commitment register and the decision log start immediately, because without them next month looks like last month.
Routine on AI, your people alongside
Status reports, summaries and briefs are drafted by AI on your context; a human checks and signs. Your future office lead and team work with us rather than watch from the side. A capability review every quarter.
Handover or continuation
We measure maturity against the baseline, document the operating model, help select and prepare the people who stay, and either hand the office to your team with a 30-day check, or continue if that suits you better. Your call.
What you get from the first month after kick-off
- ✓One agreed portfolio status every month that can be shown to the board, a client or a funder
- ✓Commitments and decisions recorded and owned from the first month after kick-off
- ✓Reporting routine on AI, managers' time on decisions
- ✓Your people selected and trained inside the process rather than on a course
- ✓Maturity measured before and after, and a handover plan that actually happens
Upcoming courses, workshops and webinars
Practical training from people who do the work. Pick your track, from management foundations to AI mastery.
Ready to discuss this engagement?
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Price: on request