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The Project Management Office (PMO) enables excellence in the management of enterprise projects. The PMO facilitates the organization's ability to manage its entire collection of projects as one or more interrelated portfolios and serves as a single source of information on project activity across the enterprise. The PMO’s scope includes supporting governance through advising on current and forecasted human resource investments, capabilities, and providing impact assessments. The office provides project plan assessments, qualifies return on investment, provides project and portfolio metrics, and recommends sequencing and prioritization of projects within the portfolio.

IT Governance

The PMO supports IT Governance bodies by helping to monitor and review the unified portfolio of all enterprise projects under the purview of this governance structure. This oversight relates to individual projects, the interrelationship between projects and the portfolio as a whole:

• Monitor progress by exception
• Proactive communication of project status
• Provide “gating” reviews at key milestones
• Harvest lessons learned at project close
• Post implementation, review actual vs. hoped for goals of the project, actual vs. budgeted costs of resources
• Optimize schedules among projects
• Monitor interdependencies between projects

Methodology

To support the governance framework a project management/system development methodology has been developed. The amount of rigor that needs to be applied to a project depends on its size and complexity. The minimum requirements matrix should help in determining what elements of the methodology to apply. If you are new to project management, here’s a manual for you.

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Resources

The Minnesota Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI-MN®) is one of the leading chapters in the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and has been honored with the PMI Chapter of the Year Award (five plus years).

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