The Program Management Office Advantage: A Powerful and Centralized Way for Organizations to Manage Projects

Already a best practice for the majority of Fortune 500 companies, Program Management Office (PMO) is being embraced by large and small organizations eager to efficiently manage all their projects. Now, this essential resource details the groundbreaking business reasons for having a centralized project department and provides easy-to-follow guidelines to help readers set up and run an effective PMO. Pioneered by the IT industry, PMO eliminates the challenges, stressors, and roadblocks involved when running multiple projects and instead creates a central office responsible for allocating resources, setting consistent measures, and monitoring progress. Program Management Office Advantage explains how you can experience these benefits for yourself by showing readers how to select projects, conduct project health checks, provide program management training to organizations, and create and implement a standardized program management process. Filled with key definitions as well as sample forms readers can use in completing administrative tasks and producing reports, the start-to-finish instructional is an indispensable introduction to the most important and powerful trend in project management.

An all-in-one guide to new trends and best practices in project management: Program Management Office Program Management Office (PMO) is the secret weapon employed by Fortune 500 companies to get complex, simultaneous projects completed on time and on budget. Pioneered in the IT industry, PMO eliminates the haphazard nature of running multiple projects by creating a central office responsible for allocating limited resources, setting consistent measures, and monitoring progress. But PMO's powerful tools and techniques can be used in any industry--construction to finance, health care to education--to enhance efficiency and performance. "The Program Management Office Advantage" is the first practical, down-to-earth guide to PMO that anyone--project managers, IT professionals, line managers, and company executives--can quickly understand and implement. This complete, how-to guide covers the entire spectrum of issues and duties, from building a financial case for establishing a PMO to forging consensus about its impact on your organization... from implementing a fail-proof plan to improve project success rates to establishing standard practices that reduce the need to "reinvent the wheel..".from staffing the PMO with highly qualified people to leading it with the skills and knowledge that guarantee success. It's all here, in one essential resource to setting up and managing a state-of-the-art PMO that ensures all of your organization's projects are running in the most efficient and effective manner possible.