“A PMO in enterprise business is in fact, structured and perceived as a department that oversees or get involved in project management activities across the departments of the business. These activities typically include project management training, coaching, governance, implementation, identifying need of project management for a given business problem, or determining the best practices to manage project planning, tracking, to create project template, project reports.
On the other hand, in case of small or medium enterprises, though PMO can take a formal shape but is represented by an individual or a small set of people. Broadly speaking what the project management office (PMO) tries to do – is to achieve following things:
- Advocate, champion for greater adoption of project management processes
- Decide the rules of the games by creating common standard of policies, procedures for conducting project management in the organization
- Highlight best practices of project management function and support project teams to follow these best practices
- Be the center of excellence for project management function in the organization and serve as a GoTo entity for project management questions, issues or decisions
- Simplify the project management processes so adaption becomes easier. Simplification can be achieved with automation of processes with project portfolio management software and tools
- Provide necessary information for executive management and sponsors to take decisions regarding projects as well as be the agent for desired change in the organization
A project management office (PMO) serves as a linchpin to make project management approach successful for a given organization” – Zilicus Project Management Software, click here to visit Zilicus. [end].
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