Ganapathy Subramanian,

Founder and Featured Faculty,

Management Scholars Academy

Synthesizing SQA and PMO activities

May 2010 SPIN Talk

Agenda• My life journey after I left this college

• Hedgehog concept from the book “Good to great”

• What is PMO? What are PMO activities?

• 9 knowledge areas of Project Management

• How I synthesized PMO activities in my SQA role

• Extra skills you will need to do this in your place

• Benefits in stretching yourselves

Good to great by Jim Collins

Good to great by Jim Collins

Six thinking hats by Edward De Bono

FLOW by Mihalay Csikszenmihalayi

What is Project Management Office? PMBoK definiton

• PMO is an organizational body assigned various responsibilities related to centralized and coordinated management of projects under its domain.

• Responsibilities can range from

• Providing project management support to

• Direct management of a project

What are PMO activities? How is it different from PM activities?

• Managing shared resources

• Developing PM methodology

• Coaching, mentoring, training and oversight

• Monitoring compliance to standards, policies and procedures

• Coordinating communication among projects

• Manages overall risk / opportunity

• Difference between PM and PMO?

Nine knowledge areas ofProject Management

• Project Integration Management

• Project Scope Management

• Project Time Management

• Project Cost Management

• Project Quality Management

• Project Risk Management

• Project Communication Management

• Project HR Management

• Project Procurement Management

How I synthesized PMO activities in my SQA role

• Scope Management – Visa Process integration

• Risk Management – Risk Radar

• Quality Management – SPARC certification

• HR Management – PMP Boot Camps

• Integration Management – Process flow tool

• Communication management – PIN Online

• Procurement management – Process tool functional fit study at Citibank, Japan

Extra skills you will need to do similar things in your organization

• Empathizing with Project Managers

• Coordinating with system admin, HR, PMO etc

• Becoming a reference point for PM, PAS

• Making yourself accountable for results if you take up a special project

• Facing senior management

• PMP certification

Benefits in stretching yourselves

• You can aspire to reach the top echelon

• Your expert power will go up

• Your network and reputation will increase

• You get chances to visit client locations

• You can become an intrapreneur

• You get to learn and teach and mature

Thanks for your time

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