How much of management consulting in other firms is just project management?

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Deloitte
Probably have the most number of pmos

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Larger project teams = more need for pmo
So companies that have large SI groups will have more pmos

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Nah bro

We do PMO sometimes when we have a bunch of teams on the ground at once. Something's gotta organize and keep everything together!

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