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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

1. Project Management as a Strategic Pillar

  • The significance of project and process management in achieving strategic goals
  • The project management lifecycle within an organization
  • Aligning the Project Management Office with organizational strategy

3. Establishing the PMO Framework

  • Core functions of a PMO
  • Operational models and organizational structures
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • The PMO ecosystem and stakeholder management

4. Standards, Methodologies, and Tools for PMO Support

  • Methodology comparison: Custom, traditional, agile, or extreme approaches
  • Techniques for classifying and prioritizing projects, programs, and portfolios; overview of assessment tools
  • Multidimensional optimization of project portfolios
  • Using competency profiles to evaluate potential, select talent, and plan resource development
  • Motivation as a driver of results: fostering a pro-project culture through financial and non-financial incentives
  • Monitoring and reporting: establishing systems, data sources, and indicators for status tracking
  • Strategic and operational control mechanisms
  • Communication planning: selecting channels and developing effective communication strategies
  • Operations management: applying theory of constraints and critical chain methods
  • Knowledge management and information access within the PMO
  • IT solutions for PMO support: a market overview

5. Planning PMO Implementation: Key Considerations

  • Best and worst practices in PMO rollout
  • Navigating stakeholder interactions and environmental factors: analyzing side effects and managing implementation risks
  • Managing change communication: balancing formal plans with informal channels
  • Handling emotions in communication and problem-solving scenarios
  • Defining success: acceptance criteria and formal launch protocols for the PMO within the organizational structure
  • Evaluating performance and managing PMO evolution in the post-implementation phase

6. Assessing Effectiveness and Planning PMO Growth

  • Regular PMO performance reviews: examples of KPIs tied to PMO functions
  • Evaluating PMO effectiveness: assessing organizational project maturity
  • How environmental, organizational, and strategic factors influence PMO development planning
  • Strategic communication planning

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No prior preparation is required to attend this training.

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