A PMO is the backbone of a successful project management approach at an organization. It is a function that provides decision support information, although it doesn’t make any decisions itself. A PMO underpins the project delivery mechanisms by ensuring that all business change in an organization is managed in a controlled way. Project Management Office (“PMO”) staffed with appropriately skilled folks to manage large and complex projects, while others either up-skill managers responsible for projects or supplement the team with project managers from another area within the organization. There are 3 key points to PMO and Shared Services:
- Mission – To provide program leadership an execution management to key initiatives and to establish repeatable best practices.
- Vision – To be the preferred program management provider by establishing a proven record of delivery success, and to become an extension of the business team.
- Strategy – To drive key strategic, integration, process improvement and transition projects. To approach projects with key principles of collaboration, communication and leadership. To partner with Information Technology and to support Shared Services Information Technology projects. And finally, to continually refine best practices for program management and apply lessons learned across all types of projects.