A short YouTube commentary by William Doyle MRICS arguing that large portfolios suffer when the PMO is disconnected from site activity. The speaker criticizes using "percentage complete" as an imprecise measure, advocates breaking work into objective, measurable units, and recommends reducing the reporting lag between site and PMO from 7–8 weeks to at most one week.
So one, one really big challenge, and it's certainly there for the bigger portfolios, is where the PMO function is so far removed from what's happening on site. And I think there, the real challenge is percentage complete. And percentage complete just doesn't really tell us what's going on. So breaking down again, using, going back to basics, breaking things down into an objective method of measurement doesn't necessarily have to be a full standard method of measurement, but breaking it down into something that we can objectively meas and reducing that lag between sight and recording things and getting them up into that pmo, there's no need for it to take seven, eight weeks. Let's shorten that lag to a week at maximum.
