A Project Management Office (PMO) manages a number of aspects, including what?
A.
Project scope, schedule, cost, and quality of the products of the work packages
B.
Central coordinator of communication management across projects, and for the delivery of specific project objectives, organization opportunity assessment
C.
Assigns project resources to best meet project objectives
D.
Overall risk, overall opportunity and interdependencies among projects
A primary function of a PMO is to support project managers in a variety of ways which may include, but are not
limited to:
• Managing shared resources across all projects administered by the PMO;
• Identifying and developing project management methodology, best practices, and standards;
• Coaching, mentoring, training, and oversight;
• Monitoring compliance with project management standards, policies, procedures, and templates by means
of project audits;
• Developing and managing project policies, procedures, templates, and other shared documentation
(organizational process assets); and
• Coordinating communication across projects.
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1 – INTRODUCTION
Project managers and PMOs pursue different objectives and, as such, are driven by different requirements. All
of these efforts are aligned with the strategic needs of the organization. Differences between the role of project
managers and a PMO may include the following:
• The project manager focuses on the specified project objectives, while the PMO manages major program
scope changes, which may be seen as potential opportunities to better achieve business objectives.
• The project manager controls the assigned project resources to best meet project objectives, while the
PMO optimizes the use of shared organizational resources across all projects.
• The project manager manages the constraints (scope, schedule, cost, quality, etc.) of the individual
projects, while the PMO manages the methodologies, standards, overall risks/opportunities, metrics, and
interdependencies among projects at the enterprise level
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