31% Success Rate: Why Your PMO is a Cost Centre, Not an Engine
Only 31% of projects meet their original objectives. If your PMO is just tracking spreadsheets instead of driving delivery effectiveness, it is overhead that needs pruning.
Tracking is Not Delivering
The PMI Pulse of the Profession reports that only 31% of projects achieve their original goals. Most PMOs spend 80% of their time on status reporting and 20% on actual delivery. This ratio is a commercial failure. A PMO that does not add Gross Value Added (GVA) is just administrative bloat.
The Iron Law of Overruns
Project overruns are the norm because decision latency is too high. Waiting for a weekly steering committee to approve a change is how projects die. You need real-time resourcing and budget visibility. Speed of decision is the only benchmark that matters in 2026.
ROI-Driven PMO
Stop reporting and start enabling. Move to an automated PMO model that surfaces risks before they become issues. If your PMO cannot prove its ROI in the next quarter, it should be dismantled.
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