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Project Management Office
(PMO)
More and more project offices become a company-wide means to coordinate
project activities formally as well as operationally. The main purpose
of a PMO is to distribute and coordinate a company-wide identical
PM methodology, to support projects in using common standard PM
tools, as well as to support a standardized project operation with
a standardized quality of results. The main activities of a PMO
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to execute overall project capacity planning,
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to execute overall project controlling, |
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to collect critical project information (eg. KPIs, CSFs)
and distribute it to relevant target audiences, |
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to conduct project management benchmarking, as well as |
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to provide mentoring to the project managers. |
Setting up a PMO carries further advantages for most companies:
It may help
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to define and establish company-wide operation
standards (which tend to exceed project standards sometimes) |
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to decrease silo thinking and thus bring business units
closer together, |
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provide faster and better coordinated information access,
and thus |
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optimize communication structures, and as a consequence |
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accelerate decision making processes. |
A PMO must integrate into the company culture though. Only if that
is provided, the advantages of a PMO can be utilized. A PMO must
be accepted from every affected unit of the enterprise. An adjournment
of power and authority structures needs to be accounted for, when
a PMO is to be instantiated.
We set up your project office, that monitors and coordinates your
company-wide project activities.
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