Professional Practice & Standards - Week 6

A PMO focused on improving project execution and safeguarding project management.

A PMO that provides trained project managers and upskills project professionals.

Questions regarding project progress, costs, problems, and contingency plans.

Project Management Office - an organizational unit that supports project management.

A type of PMO that monitors projects and provides data to senior management.

The status and performance of a project in terms of schedule and budget.

Improving project execution, best practice usage, and skill development.

Questions about project progress, budget, problems, and contingency plans in relation to each unique project.

A management structure that standardizes project governance, facilitates resource sharing, and promotes use of methodologies, tools, and techniques.

PMOs prevent PMs from misunderstanding organizational systems, ensure clear acceptance criteria based on strategy, avoid selecting project managers only from technical experts, provide executive support, and prevent resource tracking issues.

PMOs provide clarity, standardization, reporting, training, resource management, and support to project managers. It helps projects plan, track, initiate, control, and manage them effectively.

PMOs help, advise, review, facilitate, audit/QA, and mentor project managers to support all aspects from planning to execution and communication.

PMOs can be structured as weather stations, control towers, resource pools, or command and control centers based on the organizational setup.

A PMO type that closely monitors project progress.

The way a company sets up project teams and responsibilities.