PMO WORKSHOP SUMMARY – The PMOs of Today and Tomorrow

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TITLE: The PMOs of Today and Tomorrow

Overall Focus: The business management perspective of PMOs, and integrating the PMO with operations management

Prerequisites: We recommend that you have between four and eight years of project management experience

Course Level: Intermediate / Advanced

Presenter/Trainers: Dennis L. Bolles, PMP (DLB Associates, LLC) and Darrel G. Hubbard (D.G.Hubbard Enterprises, LLC)

Presentation Format: Workshop

Classroom:

Traditional in-classroom setting

Individual tables for teams of 3 to 4 participants

Exercise driven with explanatory introductions to exercises

Electronic-style in-classroom reporting of participants’ views on specific aspects of project management organizations

Handouts – Two books published by PBMconcepts

Workshop Length:

Duration: 1 Day (1 four-hour morning session, and 1 four-hour afternoon session)

Credits: 8 PDUs

About this Workshop

The workshop provides participants with a set of proven means to develop, deploy, and enhance a Project Management

Organization (PMO) that supports the business management and strategic business goals of their enterprise. You will learn

what will make your PMO both successful and sustainable in your enterprise’s business environment. You will determine what type of PMO is today best suited for your company, and how it can become an enterprise-level PMO tomorrow.

Who Should Attend – Types of participants

People who perform, support, or manage any project, project-program, or project-portfolio

People who support or manage a project, project-program, or project-portfolio management organization (PMO)

Senior managers to which a PMO is a direct reporting organization

Performance Focus

Establishing the business objectives of a PMO and understanding Project Business Management (PBM)

Developing a business driven perspective for the PMO, versus a PM methodology, process, practice, and tool view

Identifying the various PMO types and their attributes

Defining and facilitating the involvement (roles, responsibilities, and authorities) of executives and stakeholders in a

PMO

Discovering those challenges and risks affecting PMO implementation and sustainability

Determining the primary service-deliverables of a PMO

Establishing why a PMO is need in today’s enterprise, and why it will be mandatory tomorrow

What You Will Learn – You will learn how to:

Support the integration of project management with the business and operations management of the enterprise

Identify the fundamental components of the PBM framework and models for PMOs

Distinguish the primary business attributes of various types of PMOs

Ascertain the executive, operational, and managerial roles, responsibilities, and authorities of PMO stakeholders related to PMO Model Elements

Discover the business issues and organizational challenges faced by enterprises in implementing and operating a PMO

Understand the differences between a successful PMO and a sustainable PMO

Determine what benefits and value your PMO must deliver to your enterprise to be sustainable