Step-by-step playbook for standing up or rebuilding a PMO from scratch. Governance structure, charter templates, and rollout sequencing.
You inherited a platform with no project governance. The board meeting is in 90 days. You need a PMO that can demonstrate structured oversight before the sponsor starts asking why capital projects are over budget and behind schedule. This playbook is a 3-phase, 30-day action plan for rebuilding a broken PMO — governance design, reporting cadence installation, RACI definition, stakeholder alignment, and board-readiness sequencing. I built it from the PMO rebuild patterns I observed across PE-backed industrial platforms, where the operators who succeeded were the ones who treated the rebuild as a sequenced installation rather than a parallel workstream. Each phase has defined completion gates before advancing. The playbook includes week-by-week action items, sample governance templates, and cadence calendar references. The design assumption is that you have limited internal PMO talent and need to show the board results before you have the luxury of building a full PMO function.
Editable spreadsheets (.xlsx), documents (.docx), and slide templates (.pptx), plus a PDF deployment playbook.
All templates are fully editable. Structure and formulas are documented in the deployment playbook so your team can adapt naming, scoring, and thresholds.
30 days of email support directly with the contributor for setup and configuration questions.
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