Program Management Office Advantage

Lia Tjahjana

• 16 september 2009
• 9780814414262

Samenvatting:

Program management has been embraced by large and small organizations eager to fluidly and efficiently manage all their projects from one central department. This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of program management, detailing the reasons for setting up a program management office, and showing them step-by-step how to do so.

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.

Readers will find clear, detailed information on a PMO's major functions such as selecting projects, conducting project health checks, providing program management training to the organization, creating and implementing a standardized program management process, and monitoring and controlling the overall status of all running projects. Readers will also find helpful definitions and sample forms they can use in completing administrative tasks such as maintaining a Risk and Issue Log, and producing internal and external reports.

Both comprehensive and easy to understand, this book is an indispensable introduction to this important and powerful trend in project management.