Building & Sustaining A Project Management office

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Course Overview

Creating a Project Management Office (PMO) is one of the most powerful steps any organisation can take to integrate the processes and tools that enable organisational mastery of project management. In addition to the tactical benefits a PMO can provide, it can also offer a compelling strategic advantage by helping teams collaborate, create, learn, and harvest the expertise from their projects so that others may re-use it.

Specific actions can be taken to ensure a comprehensive, realistic, appropriate project management support function that adds value, not overhead. This course outlines three steps that address how to define, implement, and manage a PMO as a strategic function within the organization that adds immense value.

As an Authorised Training Partner of the PMI, after completing this course, you will earn 20 PDU hours, which can be used towards maintaining your status with PMI. The breakdown of hours is shown below in the Talent Triangle. You can find more details about our course with the PMI using the course identifier LTFEPMI03.

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Objective:

The course provides participants with an in-depth:

Understanding the approach to defining the appropriate PMO for an organisation.
Guidance to help prevent critical omissions in conceptualising a PMO.
Awareness of the multiple inputs from a wide variety of people in the organisation to ensure the PMO is well-defined in alignment with the organisation's needs and wants.
Ability to Create, Document and Validate a PMO Charter
Ability to develop an implementation plan that addresses the PMO in terms of the organization, infrastructure and institution.
Knowledge of the way to manage a PMO taking into account the ability to create and sustain customer responsiveness and delight, process efficiencies appropriate to the organization, a focus on future trends and employee retention.

The course will provide a PMO working journal where key learning points and action plans can be captured so the participants can apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon return to work.

Course Outline

Day 1 Define the PMO

Rationale for a Project Management
- Office
- Purpose & Definition
Vision & Mission
Organisational Considerations
Values & Behaviors
Strategic Business Drivers
Project vs. Program vs. Portfolio
PMO Capacity
Environmental Issues
Service Levels
Formal PMO Organizational Models
Scope of Authority

Day 2 Potential Functions

Process Development & Integration
Tools & Templates
Project Team Support
Project & Program Planning Support
Project & Program Execution Support
Portfolio Management Support
Organizational Training
Intellectual Capital Management

Day 3 Implement the PMO

Validation
- Goal Setting
- Executive Support
- Budget
- Implementation as a Project
Organization
- Charter
- Leadership
Skill Sets & Staffing
Roles & Responsibilities

Day 4 Infrastructure Requirements

Location
Operating Guidelines
Methods & Standards
Integration
- Managing Communications
- Phased Implementation
- Barriers & Enablers
- Transition to Managing the PMO

Day 5 Manage the PMO

Environment
- Performance Standards
- Metrics
- Consequences
- Job Engineering
Future Trends
Technology
Leadership

Schedule & Fees

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Building and Sustaining an Effective Project Management Office (PMO)

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Project Management Institute PMI

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills.

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