# Stop Funding Failure: Why Your PMO is a Cost Center

**Category:** PMO
**Author:** John Hotham
**Published:** 2026-09-17
**Read Time:** 1 min read

## Summary
43% of projects overrun. If your PMO is just a reporting shop, it is a waste of capital. Turn it into a delivery engine.

## Full Content
Project Management Offices have become bureaucratic bloat. 43% of projects still exceed their budgets despite millions spent on PMO staff. If your PMO exists only to produce RAG reports that nobody trusts, it is a cost center that needs to be scrapped.

A high-performing PMO is a delivery engine. It drives ROI by killing failing projects early and accelerating high-value ones. Only 22% of PMOs operate at a maturity level that actually adds value to the organisation. The rest are just overhead.

Demand more from your project teams. If they cannot prove their contribution to the bottom line, stop funding them. We turn PMOs into tactical assets that deliver measurable results.

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