PMO of the Year Award
The winner for this category has now been announced. Congratulations to all our finalists in this category.
Rewarding the commitment of portfolio, programme and project management offices (PMOs) to developing not only their organisation across all facets of project management but also their emerging industry through innovative and thoughtful ways of working.
This category is designed for those PMOs that want to stand out as a beacon of driving project success and project management maturity in the way that they enable their organisations to deliver successful and sustainable change, develop project community and challenge themselves to become trusted business partners.
The judges are looking for evidence of a PMO’s positive contribution to their organisation, delivery of consistent and demonstrable outcomes and development of the project management capability and community.
We require entrants to this category to produce a submission of up to 1,500–2,500 words (in English) based on the judging criteria. Entrants may also submit up to four pieces of supporting evidence - images or graphics only (no text apart from captions). Evidence must support information already included in the submission and must not introduce additional elements. Please see further details on the ‘Supporting evidence’ tab of the Awards platform. Video and audio is not accepted as part of the submission.
The PMO of the Year category is a two stage judging category, the first stage being the written submission mentioned above and the second stage requires all finalists to present virtually to a panel of judges. It is open to organisations across all sectors globally.
AlphaPlus Consultancy Ltd (APM Corporate Partner) is the winner of the Developmental Programme of the Year Award (2024 APM Education and Research Awards).
We are a project-driven small-size education service consultancy focused on effectively delivering worldwide, a diverse range of projects in standards, assessment, and certification, by providing our clients with high-quality innovative products and services (e-assessments Project of the Year Winner 2020), whilst growing rapidly (£4.4M of 20 employees in 2020, to £8.5M of 60 employees in 2024, and at the same time maintaining our company culture and values (Best company to work for Award 2024).
Judges comments
A small but perfectly formed team, Alpha Plus have achieved a lot in a short space of time. They were commended for balancing innovation with the need to meet multi-million programme delivery deadlines, and for building a remarkably positive culture through their development of people, systems and processes. The judges were particularly impressed by their work on Diversity, Educational Assessment, and Sustainability and Economic Assessments - aiming to achieve ISO14001 by end of the year. Congratulations to Alpha Plus!
Judges Special Mention | Dubai Municipality PMO - Dubai Municipality
Dubai Municipality’s remit covers 14 core competencies from building regulations and permits to parks and recreation, to environment, health, safety, and recycled water and sewerage management services, where approximately 60% of government funds for the city’s infrastructure and construction projects are allocated to the mega projects managed by the municipality.
To deliver and oversee this diverse portfolio of projects and programs, an Enterprise PMO was established in August 2018, and within a short span the PMO managed to increase its project, program & portfolio maturity to an advanced maturity level.
The PMO focuses on building capabilities, skills and applying advanced technology in project, program and portfolio management, benefit realization and enterprise agility using a professional PMO team and a clear and effective operating model.
Judges comments
Commended by the judges for their sustained technical competence over a number of years, and diversification into a wide range of projects. Well done to Dubai Municipality.
Finalist | AL Ain City Municipality
Since its establishment in 2008, the PMO has applied industry best practices to ensure optimal project and program delivery.
Achieving ISO 10006-2003 certification in 2014 and winning the prestigious PMO Global Award in 2022, the PMO’s contributions to successful outcomes are evident.
Operating directly under the GM’s office, the PMO ensures authority, independence, and strategic alignment, consistently meeting the 90% on-time and within-budget delivery target set by the Abu Dhabi government.
Finalist | EDP PMO - AtkinsRéalis
AtkinsRéalis delivers a Portfolio of complex engineering projects for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) through the Engineering Delivery Partnership. Our work provides critical air, maritime, land and cyber capability for the defence of the nation.
Our PMO governs and supports 200+ projects, across six programmes, achieving 99% client satisfaction with outputs and 92% staff satisfaction.
We developed our PMO over seven tranches delivering increasing economies of scale, economies of scope and economies of learning. Through our evolution we deliver increased value to the taxpayer, engineering excellence to the MOD, and development opportunities to our people.