The Real Value for Creating and Enhancing a Corporate Project Management Office (PMO)

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In a world in which work is more complex than ever before in human history, the Project Management Office (PMO) helps an enterprise alleviate the potential risks and many burdens usually associated with getting the job done and done well. The basic value of a PMO is in its ability to objectively and consistently provide internal consulting experience, project management knowledge, and a clear set of project process performance standards for getting all of the required work accomplished by the organizational entity that employs this particular business concept and new organizational unit. Putting together cross-functional teams of internal experts, sometimes joined by outside consultants, helps an organization focus on and control all of the necessary tasks to successfully deliver all of the intended results. The reliance on projects to get work accomplished by utilizing team efforts has become more prevalent over the last twenty years, as opposed to individual or departmental work achievements, and even more so during the last ten years.

 I have been in the workforce for nearly four decades. I have witnessed and actively participated in the transition from the days of individual work efforts performed in functional departmental silos to today, where more often than not, collective and cross-functional work activities are handled by using projects and project teams …

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