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PMO Resource Center

This resource center is designed to provide you with valuable information to help improve and mature your organization's project management office.

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PMO Q&A

In our recent webinar on established PMOs, Kent Crawford, CEO of PM Solutions, received more questions than he could answer. Here are the overflow questions with Kent’s answers. Take a listen.

  • How is PM Solutions preparing to meet the increasing demand of the Agile methodologies, principles and project management?

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  • Are PMOs able to make the case for custom internal project program sponsored training versus canned external courseware?

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  • What is the breaking point on the number of projects an organization should pursue and any way to judge the decreasing quality of projects or decreasing quality of life for the project participants?

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  • What would form the common basis for a business area IT partnership in delivering strategic benefits?

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  • How do you establish a sense of team among the project managers that all report into the PMO yet manage separate projects? The PMs spend their day to day focus on delivering their project and interacting with their project team members. They don’t spend as much time with their PM peers yet it is just that team that will help collectively raise the bar of project delivery.

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  • Can you share an example of a team, a functional group of project managers, where there is an environment of constant learning and growing individually as well as a team? What did that look like what made it successful?

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  • Should PMOs play a greater leadership role in the systems engineering process of IT, for example, instituting optional development methodologies?

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  • Beyond policies, standards and processes, where should PMOs position themselves with regards to IT governance activities?

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  • Are OPM3 assessments making a difference for PMO quality improvement or are there better alternatives?

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  • Our PMO is shifting focus from providing services for projects implemented by our internal resources to services for external entities. One of our PMO mandates was to also grow the PM maturity within the organization. What should we be aware of in shifting focus while maintaining the PM maturity growth?

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