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PMO and PM

A project management office (PMO) is a team or department that sets and maintains standards for project management throughout an organization and in charge of creating procedures and best practices that will help operations. 

PMO helps you learn from the past projects, they will give you the templates and guideline you need make sure your project takes right approach.

There are three ways PMO helps you.


Supportive:

provides all the templates for the project:

  • BRD
  • Project initiation check list
  • Planning, Execution, Close out check list
  • Go-Live check list
  • MoM check list
  • Project Proposal document
  • etc..

Controlling:

PMO's that control the way project management is done in a project (company) will analyze below and share report.

  • Resource utilization (Productive resources, non-billable resources, Bench time resources)
  • Enhancements status report
  • Aging report
  • Project schedule variance
  • Project Effort deviation
  • Project Cost deviation

Directive:

PMO's that take directive approach actually provide project managers (you) to project teams.

In this approach PM will report to PMO directly.

The reporting structure makes sure that the project managers follow the framework and templates prescribed by the PMO.

Directive PMO's have lot of control over the project.

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