i am in a process to ceate a a multi projects PMO office, what are the considerations that i should take?
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Hans RobbersSenior Director| SalesforceVlissingen, Netherlands
Although it sounds obvious determine the objectives and the scope of the PMO.. What is the purpose and what is expected of you.
As soon as you know that you can define the activities and recruit the necessary resources.
It sounds like just another project. ;-)
When you have to set up a PMO for a multi project environment I would suggest you focus on interdependencies between the proejct and report on these. The project manager defines his own project plan and will inform you in what way he is dependent on another project. By monitoring the dependency you can add value by informing when one of these milestone slips.
I also believe that it is important to think about "standards". What I mean is to make your projects comparable to each other, e.g., by establishing a number of standard milestones that every project plan needs to include.
Without being able to compare projects with each other it will be hard later on to measure multi-project progress as well as to "distilll" success factors. Saving Changes...
Hans RobbersSenior Director| SalesforceVlissingen, Netherlands
Gerald
You are totally right. A set of standards need to be available. It was my assumption these would be available in the Quality Management System of the company or derived from there. If there is no Quality Management or QMS you need to set them up your self and next to interdependencies governance and with it quality will be come your next big challenge
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