Varun Biju PROJ-001 Zethic PMO
Varun Biju / PROJ-001 Zethic PMO

Building Zethic's PMO from zero: first PM hire to 7-person team, 96% on-time across 20+ engagements.

How I stood up sprint cadences, migrated off Jira to a FOSS stack, and scaled delivery without burning the team.

PROJ-001 Zethic PMO Shipped
pmo-build delivery-ops foss-migration ai-workflows
Owner
Varun Biju
Sponsor
Zethic founders
Duration
2022 – Present
Team scaled
0 → 7 PMs
Sectors
9
Outcome
96% on-time across 30+ engagements

Joined as the first PM hire. No delivery function existed, so I built one: sprint cadences, scoping frameworks, estimation, reporting. All of it adopted company-wide. Fixed the workflows that were quietly losing money so the agency could run 5+ projects at once across app dev, product launches, and integrations.

Then I scaled it. Grew the team from just me to 7 PMs running 20+ concurrent client engagements. Wrote the playbooks they still use. Swapped the paid SaaS stack for self-hosted Coolify, Plane, and Docker. Built n8n automation that triages every inbound lead end-to-end. The whole thing now runs without me touching it day-to-day, which was always the point.

Before

  • No PM function. Founders managing delivery ad hoc.
  • No delivery standards or sprint cadence.
  • Growing project count with no reporting.
  • Overlapping paid SaaS tools. No automation.
  • No onboarding. Knowledge lived with individuals.

After

  • 7 PMs running 20+ concurrent engagements.
  • 96% on-time across 30+ projects and 9 sectors.
  • Playbooks and delivery standards still in use.
  • Full FOSS migration: Coolify, Plane, Docker.
  • n8n automation replaced manual lead triage.
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Bangalore, India
Working with clients globally
Taking select engagements
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