Welcome to the Official P3O Website

The purpose of the Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) guidance is to provide universally applicable guidance that will enable individuals and organisations to successfully establish, develop and maintain appropriate business support structures that will allow:

• Informed senior management decision making on strategic alignment, prioritisation, risk management, optimisation of resource etc to successfully deliver their business objectives (portfolio management)
• Identification and realisation of business outcomes and benefits via programmes
• Successful delivery of project outputs that enable benefits within time, cost and quality restraints.

P3O - An Introduction

Download our introductory P3O Presentation, delivered by Sue Vowler, P3O Lead Author at Project Challenge 2008 (MS PowerPoint - 621KB).

Practitioner Qualification

The P3O Practitioner qualification was launched in January 2010.

The Practitioner exam is an objective testing style paper. The paper consists of 7 questions with a total of 70 marks available to be completed within 2 1/4 hours. Candidates need to achieve a mark of 35 or more to pass the paper, and may only take the P3O Guide into the exam room for reference during the exam. A pre-requisite for this exam is a pass at Foundation level.