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Project Management Office

For Wikipedia article on A Project Management Office

A Project Management Office (PMO) is a group or department within a business, agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization.

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What are the first steps to take as a new PMO?

When starting a new PMO role in a small organization, what would be the 5 most important steps to take so that people understand the merit of having a PMO, in addition to bringing real and short term value to the organization, as well as in addition…
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Members of the Broader Team Find the PMO Burdensome and Valueless

The scenario here is a new IT Services Program that is about six months on a five-year firm fixed price contract, providing IT infrastructure and application O&M services for an organization that is world wide. All the teams, including the PMO, are…
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Project schedule reviews

As a PMO project coach, I am often asked to review the time schedule of projects. Some are detailed schedules in MS Project while some are high level (capacity) planning in a spreadsheet. There are waterfallish types of projects, as well as projects…
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What is the definition of "project" in Agile settings?

The context is a PMO running across two development groups, one doing Agile development, the other using the waterfall model. In order to come up with a common approach and engagement model, we would like to standardize roles, responsibilities, and…
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What are some of the pros and cons of having a Project Management Office?

Are project management offices the exception or the rule in most organisations? Does every organisation need one? Do YOU see value in having one?
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How can a PMO help the adoption of a project management culture in an organization?

I've worked with organizations that have started project management offices (PMO) in order to become more project oriented in their work processes. Sometimes it works, and the PMO becomes a source of project management knowledge that it teaches…
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Managing projects without a PMO

In a matrixed organization without a PMO, where projects tend to be coordinated by different resources (perhaps a Team Manager, perhaps a technical lead, perhaps the person who proposed a given project), where none of the project coordinators have…
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What sort of norms or frameworks can I set up to get portfolio management team to prioritize projects

The idea is that this team of 6 lower, mid and upper managers would would prioritize all of our IT development and infrastructure projects instead of trying to have us work on everything at the same time. Along with this, we would be breaking…
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PM Role in Software Maintenance

I am working to establish a formal PMO in my current organization. Senior management and I agree on most things, but there is one point on which we cannot agree. We have several software maintenance teams in the company, and senior management…
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What should be the PMO's role in a Scrum Environment?

As we all know Scrum defines 3 roles Product Owner, Scrum Master and the Team. Kanban chart is used to track progress, Velocity is used to measure SPI, Epic, Story and tasks are actually used to manage WBS. I am wondering what different things…
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Serious sources where to read Agile vs Plan Oriented comparison papers?

Pretty straight question, mainly because in my recent research I have found all sorts of sources which do not necessarily seem trust-worthy or centered. In my particular case, I'm building a project team to handle business priorities end to end for…
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Who should train business stakeholders on Project Management basics?

To clarify, I'm working as a Project Manager for a company where such concept was mostly unknown across business stakeholders. While projects were being done, no specific project management framework was in place, so everything was done on an ad-hoc…
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What is the relationship and flow between an Enterprise Architecture Practice and the practice of a PMO?

Depending on whom you speak with, people have different views depending on the structure of the organization. The first of these views is that when the business has an idea, it engages with the PMO to draft a business case, engage with the…
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Is there a PMO certification for PMO Directors?

I have my PMP and currently a PMO Director. However, does anyone know of a certification for PMOs?
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Which job title (entry-level) for PMO member?

I am looking for possible job titles for PMO employees (entry-level). Our PMO has a leading Manager PMO (once called Project Management Officer) who has a strategic focus, and now we are looking for a good job title for junior positions which should…
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