Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs

  PMO   ProjectsAtWork  

Based on the best practices of winners and finalist from PM Solutions’ annual PMO of the Year award, a new book offers tips, insights and checklists for people management, performance measurement, strategic alignment, organization design and more.

For the third time in my career, I am involved in starting up a PMO, this time for a global oil and gas industry vendor. If you have been in this position — coming into a company that has little in the way of formal structure for project management, and developing structure and process improvement on the fly — you know it’s lonely at the top. Lucky for me, the new book An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs (PM Solutions Research, 2011), by Kent Crawford and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin, was published just in time to provide me with a pocket source of information and support.

The book features  best practices gleaned from the application essays of winners and finalists of PM Solutions’ annual PMO of the Year Award, spanning the years 2006 to 2011. The practices are organized handily into chapters that cover:

• Project and Program Management
• Strategic Alignment and PPM
• Performance Measurement
• People Management
• Infrastructure and Organization Design

I’ve found myself turning again and again to the book’s examples of “the best of the best” &mdash…

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