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The Project Management Office
… Blueprint to reach project management excellence and maintaining it
This course addresses the complex issues of how to integrate a project management office (PMO) into the organization while avoiding bureaucracy, turf wars and other resistance to a disciplined and flexible PM process throughout the enterprise. Working with our experts you will assess the needs of your organization for a PMO be ready to design the kind of PMO that will be PM maturity and competency. You will address issues that include multiple levels of PMO, project autonomy, the methodology role of the PMO, whether the PMO should be the “home” of project managers or an enabling organization that supports project excellence and portfolio management or both.
Prerequisite
Experienced In Project Management
Course Level
Intermediate/Advanced
Duration
2 Days
Who should attend?
This course is designed for senior PM
practitioners, PMO staff, managers of PMs and others who want to
know what a good PMO is and how to build and maintain one.
Among those who can benefit from this course includes:
- Delivery Heads
- IBU / LOB / Stream Heads
- QA Representatives
- Program Managers
- Project Managers
- Account Managers
- Project Leaders
Performance Focus
- The goal of this course is to equip the participant with the necessary knowledge and skills to establish, improve, and work with a project management office that will be the catalyst for enterprise project management excellence.
What You Will Learn
- Describe why it is advantageous for an organization to
have a PMO
- Differentiate between different views of project success
and the role of the PMO as a facilitator to assure success
for all stakeholders
- Describe the importance of periodic evaluations of
projects and other Enterprises project
- Describe project management maturity, metrics at
maturity levels, and the roles and responsibilities of the
PMO in a maturity assessment
- Describe the role of the PMO in performing a competency
analysis and developing and using a competency model
- Determine the steps needed to implement a PMO
Content
Basic Outline of the Course:
Foundation Concepts
Defining a PMO and EPM
The importance of a PMO
The desired organizational environment
Key characteristics of a PMO
Project Success: The Different
Measures and Views
Definition of project success
Client and team views of project success
Ways to quality project success
Approach to rate and evaluate the success of the project at frequent
and regular intervals.
PMO Functions: Project – Focused Vs
Enterprise –Focused
Organizational goals and their influence on PMO functions
Different levels of coverage for the PMO in the organization
Project – focused functions
Enterprise – oriented functions
The PMO Role in Project Management
Competency development
Definition of competency
The importance of competency in project management
The PMO s role in performing a competency analysis
The PMO s role in developing and using a competency model |
The PMO and Project Control, Audit
and Recovery
Establishing a control process to identify troubled
projects
Identifying troubled projects
Conducting a project audit
Supporting project recovery
Project Management Office: Maturity
Levels
Definition of maturity and organizational
The PMO and maturity models
Metrics and key performance indicators
Role of the PMO in the maturity assessment process
The Ten–Step Implementation Process
Goals for the PMO
Commitment for a PMO
PMO functions, role and responsibilities
Processes and tools to be provided by the PMO
The PMO resource estimation process
The needed budget for the PMO
Staffing the PMO
Assimilating the PMO
Recap & Closing |
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