Role of Project Management Office (PMO) in Organization

Project Management Office is the centralized department in a company for Project Management. Responsibilities and authority of PMO might vary. PMO might be a support department providing knowledge, Tools and support required for projects or PMO might have complete authority on all projects.

  • PMO might help gather Project lessons learned, create projects document templates and other process documents and make these available to future projects.
  • PMO might manage dependencies between projects and might help manage conflicts between projects such as resource demands.
  • PMO might provide guidance specifically to New Project Mangers.
  • PMO might look for opportunities by overseeing multiple projects and how they are aligned to Business Objectives and Strategic Goals.
  • PMO might terminate projects or provide guidance for project termination. For example, there might be another project planned or running, which might make current project unnecessary. For example, if a project is going to replace current accounting system, Upgrade Project for current Accounting system may not be necessary.

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  1. ganesh
    Posted May 16, 2010 at 5:19 pm | Permalink

    The contents are very precise and to the point – I am really surprised to see how you have composed the same – thanks for that.

    But I am really LOST on how to locate a topic for E.g. Cost Center Accounting – the reason being there is NO index

    2) The menu ” HOME About Archive Contact ” is really hiding for some reason – Eventhough the letters are BIG , I struggled a lot to locate them – It could be a design flaw

    Hope you will rectify them soon.

    Appreciate your valuable efforts friends.

    Ganesh

  2. Gatt
    Posted May 25, 2010 at 11:24 am | Permalink

    Thanks for showing interest. I will review the design and see how it can be improved.

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