Today, shipbuilding is undergoing fundamental changes as customers are expecting to receive products faster, better quality and in the most economical way. This means that shipyards must concentrate on producing products faster and at the lowest possible cost.

Development projects have become highly important part of the case company daily routine. In addition to daily business, many projects have struggled to successfully implement on schedule, in scope and at eligible costs.

The case company decided to establish Project Management Office to be the central function and to help with project management challenges that people are facing. The role of the PMO is to implement the company strategy and monitor project performance and execution progress. The PMO creates and maintains the PPM tools and templates and provides facilitation and training support for PMO stakeholders.

This thesis is action research and will develop a new PMO concept model, which creates the governance structure for case company. It will increase information sharing crossfunctionally and bring business case and risk management thinking to project level. The PMO’s objectives will be tied closely to case company strategy and goals.

The PMO implementation work conducted between April 2017 and March 2019 when full PMO concept was finalized with positive results.