Real talk: based on your experience, how much (% projects) of consulting is PMO? Asking out of curiosity because since I joined consulting, almost 80% of my time has been spent on PMO-ish like projects and was not really what I signed up for.

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80% is an accurate estimate

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What are PMO projects?

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I think PMO helps a lot in the beginning eslecially if you're new to consulting because you get to learn the process before delving into the actual content.

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95%

At the higher levels,80% sounds right.

Otherwise, should be closer to 10%-25% of your time on a project.

Ah. We call that “Governance”.

I’d say it’s 25%-50%, depending on firm. It’s easy money.

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