Course Name: Building a Successful PMO

Area of Study: Project Management Leadership

Classroom Hours: 7

Tuition per Student: $325

Description:

This course outlines the basics of setting up a PMO and clearly explains how to ensure it will do exactly what you need it to do - the right things, in the right way, in the right order, with the right team. Many organizations profit hugely by utilizing a Project Management Office (PMO), it means they achieve benefits from standardizing and following project management policies, processes, and methods. However, building an effective PMO is a complex process; it requires clear vision and strong leadership so that, over time, it will become the source for guidance, documentation, and metrics related to the practices involved in managing and implementing projects.

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

• The Meaning and Purpose of a PMO

• What Makes a PMO Successful?

• Being a Successful PMO Leader

• Starting a PMO

• The Final Frontier

Students enrolled for this course should have the following:

This course is intended for all project based organizations, and project managers who contribute to and benefit from a PMO, who want to focus on maximizing their project success.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Successfully lead a PMO to deliver better projects, better business to all the customers of those projects and to best serve the contributing project managers professionally and personally

• Identify what it is that defines successful PMO leaders, what they do that allows them to be successful, and how the rest of us can learn from their experiences

• Direct the best, and most relevant, PMO for your business