Business Driven PMO Setup: Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success
- 9h 26m
- Mark Price Perry
- J. Ross Publishing
- 2009
This unique reference contains the contributed PMO knowledge, practical experience and wisdom of more than 20 distinguished executives and subject matter experts. Business Driven PMO Setup challenges various traditional approaches and strategies for the PMO and shows how to implement a PMO using an extensively proven roadmap adaptable to any type or size organization. It delivers the key tips, tools and techniques that enable a PMO to achieve success.
KEY FEATURES
- Outlines actionable solutions to the problems and execution difficulties that most PMOs face
- Establishes a clear bottom-line business mindset and practical approach that any PMO can adopt, and delivers practical insights supported by real case examples beneficial to PMOs of all shapes and sizes
- Demonstrates using real examples, including OPM3®, how PMOs can be designed to fit the organizations they serve
- Presents an outside-the-box discussion of Lines of Business PMOs which can be of tremendous value to firms
About the Author
Mark Price Perry is a subject matter expert in the practical application of project portfolio management (PPM), collaboration platforms, and PMO content assets. Over the past 10 years, he has become a widely recognized expert in PMO setup as Senior Vice President of Operations at BOT International. Mark has been author of BOT International’s “PMO Tips of the Week column” for the past 7 years, sharing experience-based practical insights as a service to thousands of project management professional subscribers. Mr. Perry is a distinguished contributor at Gantthead.com, the leading online professional site for the project management community, and the author of the Gantthead.com blog, “PMO Setup T3 - Tips, Tools, and Techniques.” Mark Perry is also the host of “The PMO Podcast”, the leading podcast for PMOs of all shapes and sizes, and a sought after speaker. In addition to formal project managers and members of PMOs, Mr. Perry has helped tens of thousands of informal and accidental project managers apply the knowledge and techniques of the PMBOK® Guide.
In this Book
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Business Driven PMO Setup—Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success
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Preface
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Introduction
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Mission, Goals, and Objectives: Business Driven vs Theory-Driven
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Organization: Constituent-Oriented vs Inwardly Focused
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Managing Projects: Think Process, Not Methodology
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Managing the PMO: Embracing Flexibility vs Mandating Conformance
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PMO Tools: Establishing a PMO Architecture vs Implementing a Tool
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Executive Reporting: Keep It Simple
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Project Management Office Leadership: MBWA 2.0
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Project Management Leadership: Servant-Leader vs Subject Matter Expert
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Creating High-Performance Teams
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Establishing a PMO: A Practical Roadmap
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Line of Business PMOs: The Ubiquitous Nature of Project Management
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Advancing Organizational Project Management: From Theory to Practice
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Project Management Office Passion: Where Does It Come From?
