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PMI® Houston Chapter, Inc.
Course Syllabus
How to Effectively Implement a Project Management Office (PMO)
Objective
Project Management Offices have become increasingly popular in the past few years, as companies are more than ever striving to optimize the execution of internal IT processes and projects and drive out unnecessary cost wherever possible. Establishing a PMO is viewed by many organizations as a critical success factor for the alignment of IT strategies with business strategies, for effective project management and for project portfolio reporting to key stakeholders. It is becoming very difficult to gain the required cost efficiencies without a Project Management Office in place, especially as companies inevitably make the shift to project-driven organizational models.
Who Should Attend?
CIOs, IT Directors, and Project Managers who want to learn more about this important function, as well as those executives who are ready to establish a PMO in their organization. Existing PMO staff should also attend this course and assess the current effectiveness of their PMO activities.
DAY 1
Introduction
- Participant introductions
- A PMO Implementation Journey
- Experience with PMO issues
- Course objectives
- Project evaluation exercise
- PM vs. PMO
- Problem areas that can be addressed by the implementation of a PMO
- PMO Project Charter exercise
- SEI CMM/CMMi for assessments and process improvement
- A real assessment – process and results
- Maturity assessments – statistics and profiles
- Project Management Maturity Models for assessments and improvement
- PMI Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)
- A PMO Maturity Model
- Determining initial PMO roles and goals
- Which Project Office Model?
- Project Office Models
- Model 1 – Project Control
- Model 2 – Organizational Project Control
- Model 3 – Enterprise Project Management
- Project Office Models
- A PMO Implementation approach
- Phases and steps required to implement a PMO
DAY 2
Operational Management of the PMO
- Strategic Planning and Alignment
- Strategic planning methodologies
- JAD for strategic planning
- Keys to effective strategy implementation
- Tactical Planning and Project Selection
- Portfolio management
- Sarbanes-Oxley considerations
- Training and Ongoing Operations
- Training programs
- Certification programs
- Staffing the PMO
- PMO Services to the organization
- Suggestions for PMO success
- Resource Management
- ERM and EPM
- Process Management
- Methodologies
- Business and Technical controls
- PMI and QAI
- Tool Support
- Process Management tool
- Project Management tools
- Reporting
- Project performance
- A parallel project
- A methodology for change management
- Available resources
- PMO performance reports
- Lessons learned from past PMO implementations
- Tips for success
- What senior management can do to improve projects
- PMO Critical Success Factors
- References
- Practicing project managers and/or project management consultants with years of experience and recognized teaching skills
- Certified (PMP®) Project Management Professional
How to Effectively Implement a Project Management Office (PMO) is offered bi-monthly by PMI® Houston. Click Here to see the PMI® Houston Calendar of courses for dates of offerings.
