Project management office

Success Problem

The role of the project management office.

Impact

Project management office is an organizational unit of a project oriented permanent organization with adequate equipment and personnel, responsible for integrated methodical and informational support for project proposer, project owner and project manager.

Recommendation

Project management office: • provides the methodics for project and program management and requires its correct and consistent usage, • builds up and maintains an integrated system of instruments for project management and programe management, • supports the portfolio manager or immediately manages the project and programe portfolio starting with project origination, however does not manage the projects, because this is the responibility of project managers, • evaluates individual projects, but the approval of projects is the responibility of organization’s top management, • after project approval allocates the resources to individual projects, • maintains the project and programe register, • maintains the database of ressources and their sources inclusive project management proffesionals, • methodically supports the project proposers, owners and managers with elaborating corresponding project documents, • approves all documents of given project according to responsibility matrix of the permanent organization, • monitores, controls and reports about individual projects, • supports solving interproject problems (programe and project portfolio management), • provides proffessional consultations and education for project management. Particular permanent organization usually uses only particular combination of the project management office tasks depending on the project maturity of the organization.

Category

• Organization & Structures & Processes