Irish energy company Certa accelerates project portfolio management efficiencies with PPOVisit our press officeIreland’s largest fuel supplier, Certa, a business with a proud legacy in the energy sector - servicing commercial, industrial, residential and mobility sectors with fuel, lubricants and renewable energy for over 40 years - has significantly improved its project and portfolio management processes through the implementation ofBy centralising its approach, Certa has been able to boost...
To support this journey, Certa decided to implement a project portfolio management tool that could reinforce the adoption of these updated processes.According to Golding, as project management was a new concept at Certa, the organisation needed a project portfolio management tool that was user-friendly, yet able to grow with the business as its project management capabilities developed.
“We started with agreeing on our project management framework – the governance that is required and how projects were to be categorised. We then launched PPO to support the implementation, rolling out a comprehensive training programme, and set to work on running projects through PPO., who was appointed as Certa’s PMO Lead in October 2023, the PMO has seen a marked increase of PPO adoption by managers in the past six months, driven by a greater focus on accountability.
Since implementing PPO, the PMO has also gained visibility of the project portfolio management pipeline, with all projects managed via PPO's demand management capability. Centralised data management has also become a key advantage for the PMO, as the project portfolio management solution provides a single source of truth for all project-related information.
And there is not only a high-level, 30 000-foot view on projects, but also on project resources. “Getting a better handle on our PMO resources was critical, as we run very lean as a business. Certa's PMO is now able to quickly and easily see demands on our resource capacity – the heat map is much clearer now in terms of bottlenecks and pain points, and it’s possible for us to proactively plan where resources are used.