This document outlines 6 ways for a project management office (PMO) to become more strategic by overcoming common challenges. It discusses challenges faced by PMOs such as juggling business demands, lacking visibility across projects, and having reactive management. The document then presents 6 strategies for PMOs to address these challenges: 1) Translating strategic initiatives into projects, 2) Managing resource capacity, 3) Providing project/portfolio visibility through dashboards, 4) Enabling dynamic portfolios through cross-project analysis, 5) Integrating agile methodologies, and 6) Driving benefits realization. It describes how the KeyedIn software can help PMOs implement these strategies through features like scenario modeling, resourcing, reporting,