Program Management Office (PMO) has been an important aspect of any organization delivering products, projects or providing services.
PMO is usualy needed for a number of reasons.
The benefits of PMO are but not limited to:
- Bring in consistency in delivering products, projects or services.
- Provide transparent reporting.
- Ensure effective investment in all the projects.
- Ensure the right projects are picked up and delivered.
- Ensure the project teams are productive.
- Provide long term cost savings.
While setting up a PMO, an organization normally focuses on the purpose of setting up the PMO from different perspectives such as Functional, Structural and Disciplinary goals.
Functional goal is mostly related to the functions the PMO is going to focus on. Is the PMO needed to set up just standards, or is it going to perform Governance, Delivery of projects or running the Strategies of the projects.
Structural goal is to do with how PMO deals with People, Processes and what tools it can bring in for managing people and processes.
Disciplinary goals are mostly to do with execution of projects, change management, resourcing, and communication with stakeholders.
In my future blogs, we will deal with each one of them individually.
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