PMO Essentials

Course details

The PMO Essentials course demonstrates what it takes to improve organisational alignment and deliver on your strategic objectives by focusing on “doing the right projects and doing them the right way to deliver lasting results.”

How often do you experience:

• Many projects competing for limited resources
• Lack of cross organisational integration
• Failure to deliver benefits and value
• No strategic alignment

The PMO Essentials course equips participants to establish, improve and work with a strategic PMO by design, not by default.

What you will learn

Summary of what you learn on PMO Essentials course:

• The different levels of PMOs
• Resource deployment within PMO
• Reporting relationships
• Functions provided by the PMO
• Methodology to be deployed,
• Which information systems to use
• When the PMO becomes strategic
• The Institute's Advantage
  • The Strategic PMO
    • Project Portfolio & the Strategic PMO
    • PMO Organisation, Structures & Functions
    • The PMO's role in competency & maturity development
    • Establishing a project management methodology and PMO governance
    • Human capital & the PMO

• The individuals designing and conducting the programmes are highly experienced, comfortable working with all levels of management and has been delivering such workshops both publically and on an in-house basis for many years.Their delivery is backed by the confidence that they have operated PMO’s at the enterprise level in many blue-chip companies. The head of our faculty sits on the powerful IPMA® Education and Training Board thereby insuring that the very latest international thinking is incorporated into our programmes.

  Who should attend

  The course is designed for senior project management practitioners, PMO staff, managers of PMOs and others who want to know what a good PMO is and how to build and maintain one.

  Certification

  This one day workshop contributes 7.0 PDUs (Professional Development Units) to the record of the individuals Continuous Professional Development

  The course content reflects current global research, emerging trends, and leading practices and covers the following topics: