The whole project office concept gets a lot of bad-mouthing, particularly from the high flying aces in the project management squadron.
Top executives point stern fingers at the project office after a project crashes and burns.
Between crashes, these execs usually refuse to look at any of the PO's reports. Well, many of the above-mentioned problems occur when organizations have the wrong type of project office for their stage of project management development. There are three basic types of project offices. Just like your friendly TV weather person, this project office reports on what is going on overhead, but does not try to influence it. These weather people accumulate data about conditions and note who is flying in what direction, but never try to fix anything.