In an EPC company within the realization department, how to call the role of working for implementing management procedure, management training, developing best practices, benchmarking, software tools, management performance evaluation and control ( infernal audit), continual improvement…etc in two words, the lateral project management support to achieve the project’s success & company target ? Is it called operation management or project management system?? Saving Changes...
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Elizabeth HarrinDirector| RebelsGuideToPM.comLondon, England, United Kingdom
I would call this the work of the Project Management Office.
To be honest, though, you can call it whatever you like as long as people in your company understand what it is. Saving Changes...
Yup! I agree that most of these functions are more related to PMO provided that when you mention software tools, you mean it within that same context of project management.
The term operations management does not appeal to me much, since I am very reluctant for example to call implementing management procedure as operations, it is project management and somehow we can call it governance. Saving Changes...
Authors Reid and Sanders in their book “Operations Management” (4th edition, John Wiley and sons, 2010) define Operations Management as “the business function that plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services” (p.3). Part of activities that you described do not seem to be directly related to Project Management, as Operations Management also has its own processes, including quality control and professional development of both management and staff. If the company is functional, hierarchical organisation with strictly defined organisational “verticals”, the title “PMO” may just not be the right one to use/apply. Saving Changes...
Ravi ShankarProject Manager| Maersk Global Service Centres Pvt. LtdPune, Maharashtra, India
The Role called would be Sr. Project Manager or Team Lead Project management. In EPC companies where PMO team have a very limited responsibilities or a company do not have a PMO department then Sr team members execute such responsibilities as stated by you.
It could also be a Project management Operations Dept. too. Saving Changes...
