Enterprise, program, and project PMOs designed for public infrastructure and capital-intensive organizations across Canada and the United States.
Selah Strategic designs the governance layer that turns capital budgets into delivered outcomes. We stand up PMOs from scratch, redesign PMOs that have lost credibility, and recover portfolios where governance is the root cause. Our Principal Advisor has designed and led enterprise PMOs for $11.5B+ in capital programs — with 95%+ on-time execution across 120+ projects.
Structure, mandate, decision rights, governance cadences, reporting infrastructure, and staffing model — calibrated to organizational scale, funding model, and political context.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 16–24 weeks, phased with quarterly value milestones
Investment: Custom scope by portfolio scale
Diagnose current-state PMO performance against leading practice (P3M3, PMI, public-sector gating models) and build a phased advancement roadmap that pays back inside 12 months.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 8–12 weeks
Investment: Fixed fee
Program PMO for a coordinated set of related projects — interdependency management, shared resource planning, integrated schedule and cost, consolidated reporting.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 10–16 weeks for stand-up; ongoing advisory optional
Investment: Custom scope by program complexity
When the existing PMO has lost the confidence of the executive, board, or funding partner — we lead a rapid diagnostic, install a defensible interim posture in 30 days, and rebuild toward a durable operating model.
What's Included
When You Need This
Engagement: 12–24 weeks
Investment: Priority scope, embedded team
$11.5B+
Capital portfolios governed
120+
Projects under PMO leadership
95%+
On-time gate execution
$190M+
Idle capital recovered & reallocated
100%
Federal funding compliance maintained
Representative Experience
TransLink-scale authorities in Canada and equivalent agencies across US transit — governance for LRT, BRT, subway, and commuter-rail capital programs.
Provincial ministries in Canada and state DOTs in the US managing multi-billion-dollar capital portfolios across highways, bridges, and transit.
Large municipalities and regional districts standing up or maturing PMOs for infrastructure renewal programs.
Class-1 utilities, hydro authorities, and Crown corporations governing $500M–$10B+ in generation, transmission, and distribution capital.
Our Principal Advisor has held direct accountability for enterprise PMO delivery on $11.5B+ in capital — not just consulted on it.
We speak the language of Treasury Board, FTA, IIJA, ICIP, and provincial-federal funding agreements — governance evidence that survives auditor scrutiny.
The same governance rigor we apply to a Vancouver transit program, we apply to bankable programs in emerging markets — a rare combination.
Whether you're standing one up, redesigning, or recovering — we architect PMOs that deliver.
PMO Design is the practice of architecting a Project Management Office — its mandate, decision rights, governance cadences, methodologies, controls, reporting infrastructure, and staffing model — so that an organization can plan, deliver, and govern a portfolio of projects with predictable outcomes. Selah Strategic designs PMOs at three levels: enterprise (whole organization), program (a coordinated set of related projects), and project (single major initiative).
Selah Strategic is a leading North American PMO Design advisor for public infrastructure and capital-intensive private organizations. Our Principal Advisor, Folu Odunuga (MSc, MBA, PMP), designed and led enterprise PMOs for $11.5B+ in capital programs at TransLink — one of Canada's largest transit authorities — governing 120+ projects with 95%+ on-time execution. The firm advises ministries of transportation, state DOTs, transit agencies, municipalities, Crown corporations, and Class-1 utilities across Canada and the United States.
Common triggers: (1) standing up a PMO from scratch for a new capital program; (2) inheriting a PMO that has lost credibility, missed gates, or produced unreliable forecasts; (3) merging or centralizing multiple project delivery groups after a reorganization; (4) preparing for a major funding decision or ministerial review where governance evidence is required; (5) recovering a troubled portfolio where the governance layer itself is the root cause.
Enterprise PMO governs the whole portfolio and reports to the executive team or board — its work is prioritization, capital allocation, standards, and cross-portfolio performance. Program PMO governs a coordinated set of related projects (for example, a rail expansion program of six projects) — its work is interdependency management, shared resources, and consolidated reporting. Project PMO governs one major initiative and owns its schedule, cost, risk, and quality. Selah Strategic designs all three, and — critically — designs the interfaces between them.
A minimum viable PMO for a new program can be stood up in 8–12 weeks with a small dedicated team. A full enterprise PMO redesign for a large capital portfolio typically runs 4–9 months, phased so the organization sees value inside the first quarter. PMO recovery timelines depend on how far the existing PMO has drifted from delivery reality, but we build a defensible interim posture in the first 30 days.
We synthesize PMI (PMBOK, Portfolio, Program), P3M3 maturity, AACE cost-estimate classification, ISO 21500-series, and public-sector gating models (Treasury Board of Canada, US GAO, UK OGC) — but we do not sell an off-the-shelf framework. Every PMO Design engagement produces a governance model calibrated to the organization's scale, tier of complexity, funding model, and political context.
Yes. While our deepest track record is in public-sector transit and infrastructure, we design PMOs for capital-intensive private organizations including utilities, energy operators, mining programs, and large real-estate developers — anywhere a portfolio of $10M–$10B+ in capital projects needs disciplined governance.