This document summarizes a project management office (PMO) course. It defines a PMO as administering multiple projects from a single location and manager. It discusses the roles of a PMO in developing and maintaining processes, templates, and a knowledge repository. It categorizes different types of PMOs from basic to center of excellence. It assesses the current PMO as standard level and desires an advanced level. Key challenges discussed are having a unified PMO framework, management buy-in, and compliance. Proposed solutions include a unified enterprise PMO guiding lower level PMOs and increased awareness and compliance measures.

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Project Management Office Course
Instructor: Claude H. MALEY
December 2011
Dubai, UAE

2.  What is PMO
 Role of PMO
 Types of PMO
 AS-IS and TO-BE assessments
 Challenges
 Outcome of Challenges
 Proposed Solutions
 Lessons learned

3.  Project Management Office:
o Multiple projects administered from a single location by a single
manager (while project office administered single project).
o There can be multiple PMOs in the organization
o Multiple PMOs should share common best practices

4.  To develop, maintain project processes
 To Have a central Library for the templates
 Integrate lessons learned in a repository
PMO
Provide Provide Train PM
Facilitate Review Audit Coach Help Advise
processes Knowledge resources

5.  Basic PMO
 Standard PMO
 Advanced PMO
 Center of Excellence PMO

6.  AS-IS Assessment:
o Currently we are at standard PMO level
 Desired Status “TO-BE”
o We would like to achieve Advanced level

7.  Unified PMO framework
 Conflict of interest
 Management Buy-in
 Compliance

8.  Several version of PMO methodologies and processes
 Different silos
 Difficult to comply (Confusing for employees)
 Multiple PMO System

9.  Come up with a unifies PMO at organization level
 Separate PMO at lower levels where it is required, guided
from the Enterprise PMO
 Sponsor of PMO should be CEO or any of the high
management in the organization
 Awareness workshop for continues marketing
 PMO Compliance should be part of employees yearly
appraisal

10.  All projects should be aligned with the organization strategy
 Maintain a portfolio management for all the projects
 Prepare all the templates, processes and procedures and
combine them in a repository
 Employees should understand the importance of PMO
 PMO should be evolving function
 Demand only what you provide
 Not too authoritative

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