What do PMOs do?

1. Capturing project requests and ensuring each request meets basic PMO requirements as an outline business case and project mandate
2. Keeping an up-to-date repository of projects underway and requests pending review
3. Managing a resource forecast to help understand resource availability for projects
4. Achieving in cost reduction through efficient, centralized services
5. Having a direct impact on the bottom-line of the organization by cutting cut project overruns
6. Contributing to project quality assurance
7. Improving IT and business efficiency in delivering projects consistently within time and budget
8. Defining a set of project management standards, guidelines and methods that can be used consistently throughout the organization by project and program managers.
9. Managing the shared portfolio, program and project management methodology and processes across organization
10. Ensuring the defined project management standards and procedures are followed
11. Managing and facilitating the portfolio management process
12. Implementing a scoring and prioritization model to assess which project requests should be approved.
13. Facilitating project portfolio management with a selection of projects to make sure the organization works on the right things at the right time
14. Providing a centralized and consistent governance reporting model
15. Ensuring that stakeholders have up-to-date, accurate information with a frequency and format they understand
16. Providing big picture master project view to understand dependencies and risks
17. Providing audit trails for large projects to ensure compliance with regulatory compliance
18. Offering advice and support to project stakeholders
19. Becoming a source of training, guidance and mentoring for project managers
20. Providing on-going services to make sure that problems stay solved
21. Become the guardian of the project knowledge base
22. Implement a program and project gating review process to make sure on-going compliance with business case
23. Centralized archive of lessons learned
24. Provide consultancy on demand to project stakeholders, sponsors, business owners and IT owners
25. Implement a continuous improvement program for portfolio, program, project and resource management

I couldn’t have said it better myself!

Project Management 2.0 – Webinar with Dr. Harold Kerzner

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When: Tue Jun 23, 2015 (10:00 AM – 11:30 AM)

Where: Online Meeting

Learning Goals:
1. Execute complex projects of the future
2. Improve stakeholder management
3. Understand the necessity for flexible project management methodologies
4. Recognize the importance of value in making project decisions

Join us for a free webinar from project management industry leader, Dr. Harold Kerzner.

In his newly-released book, Project Management 2.0, Dr. Kerzner details the upcoming trends and changes in project management. During the webinar, Dr. Kerzner will explore both the benefits and the challenges of Project Management 2.0, including the use of social media, dashboards, and the Project Management Office.

This professional development opportunity will provide the university community the opportunity to advance project management skills and get in on the ground floor of PM 2.0.

This webinar is hosted by the International Institute for Learning and not affiliated with the university. Please click below to register through IIL’s Learning Center for this webinar.