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The PMO Design Lab — Centralised, Federated, or Coaching?

MBA / Executive-Education simulation in which a PMO Design task force has 75 minutes to recommend an operating model for Helio Verde Energía's project portfolio.

3 rounds Executive English, Español

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About this simulation

MBA / Executive-Education simulation in which a PMO Design task force has 75 minutes to recommend an operating model for Helio Verde Energía's project portfolio.

Three rounds (Diagnose → Design → Defend) walk participants through the four-dimension contingency frame, the three PMO archetypes (centralised, federated, coaching), and the audit-committee defence under simultaneous pressure from Patricia Echeverría and the Northern-Region GM Tomás Acuña.

Teaches contingency-grounded archetype choice, authority-gradient design, the Aubry-Hobbs maturity ramp, and the architecture-vs-parameters discipline.

Who it is for

An advanced simulation for participants used to working with the main frameworks and trade-offs of the subject, designed for executive education and experienced professionals.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Diagnose Helio Verde.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Project complexity (1 = uniform, 5 = highly heterogeneous)
  • Regulatory pressure (1 = light, 5 = heavy multi-regulator)
  • BU autonomy norms (1 = central DNA, 5 = strong-region DNA)
  • Current PMO maturity (Gartner 1–5)
  • Dominant failure mode of the current PMO
  • Archetype
  • Mode-A change-order threshold (USD thousands)
  • Mode-A bespoke cluster (out of 41 projects)
  • Total PMO headcount (FTE)
  • Year-1 maturity target (Gartner level)

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Round Outcomes

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Project Management.

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