The Program Management Office Advantage: A powerful and Centralized Way for Organizations to Manage Projects - Hardcover

Tjahjana, Lia; Dwyer, Paul; Habib, Mohsin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814414265 ISBN 13: 9780814414262

Publisher: AMACOM, 2009

Synopsis

Already a best practice for the majority of Fortune 500 companies, program management has now been embraced by large and small organizations eager to fluidly and efficiently manage all their projects from one central department. This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of program management, detailing the reasons for setting up a program management office, and showing them step-by-step how to do so.

Readers will find clear, detailed information on a PMO's major functions such as selecting projects, conducting project health checks, providing program management training to the organization, creating and implementing a standardized program management process, and monitoring and controlling the overall status of all running projects. Readers will also find helpful definitions and sample forms they can use in completing administrative tasks such as maintaining a Risk and Issue Log, and producing internal and external reports.

Both comprehensive and easy to understand, this book is an indispensable introduction to this important and powerful trend in project management.

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About the Author

Lia Tjahjana worked in the Project Management industry in Australia for 7 years and is currently completing a Master of Liberal Arts in Management at Harvard University. She has a Master of Engineering Science in Project Management and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

From the Back Cover

An all-in-one guide to new trends and best practices in project management: Program Management Office

Program Management Office (PMO) is the secret weapon employed by Fortune 500 companies to get complex, simultaneous projects completed on time and on budget. Pioneered in the IT industry, PMO eliminates the haphazard nature of running multiple projects by creating a central office responsible for allocating limited resources, setting consistent measures, and monitoring progress. But PMO s powerful tools and techniques can be used in any industry construction to finance, health care to education to enhance efficiency and performance.

The Program Management Office Advantage is the first practical, down-to-earth guide to PMO that anyone project managers, IT professionals, line managers, and company executives can quickly understand and implement. This complete, how-to guide covers the entire spectrum of issues and duties, from building a financial case for establishing a PMO to forging consensus about its impact on your organization from implementing a fail-proof plan to improve project success rates to establishing standard practices that reduce the need to reinvent the wheel from staffing the PMO with highly qualified people to leading it with the skills and knowledge that guarantee success.

It s all here, in one essential resource to setting up and managing a state-of-the-art PMO that ensures all of your organization s projects are running in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

From the Inside Flap

Are the project managers in your organization scrambling for people, time, and funding? Are they wasting effort on overlapping projects or the wrong projects altogether? Maybe your organization is plagued by cost overruns, delays, and cancellations? Program Management Office (PMO) is the newest solution to the challenge of how to effectively manage complex, concurrent projects.

As a single office responsible for overseeing all of an organization s projects, PMO goes well beyond the traditional scope of project management, adding a new level of efficiency, accountability, and strategic oversight. Now you can put the enormous benefits of PMO to work in your organization with the strategies and tools inThe Program Management Office Advantage. This all-in-one resource helps you:

Evaluate the pros and cons of establishing PMO in your organization, and prepare a cost-benefit analysis to justify your decision.

Set up a world-class PMO from scratch, overcoming resistance from internal project managers and outside vendors.

Determine where to locate the PMO in your organization s structure for optimal interaction.

Build a customer-centric approach to helping your project teams achieve their goals.

Set detailed guidelines for managing vendors and contractors, and maintain a database of pertinent information on each.

Implement a five-step knowledge-harvesting process to ensure that all project documentation is collected and stored.

Train your project managers in PMO best practices to continually improve your organization s performance.

Select the projects that best serve your company s goals and align with its strategy.

Use a gateway review at each stage of a project to ensure that results are delivered, budgets are approved, and resources are available.

From quickly getting projects off the ground to consistently measuring results to successfully leading the department,The Program Management Office Advantage gives you the latest, most effective PMO strategies and tools in an easy-to-understand format that lets you put the information to work immediately.

Lia Tjahjana has more than seven years of project management experience in various industries, including finance and construction, both in the public and private sectors. An entrepreneur, she also has had experience with establishing and running an online business. She has a Master of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University, a Master of Engineering Science in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She lives in Boston.

Paul Dwyer, PMP, has been involved in project management in the financial services industry for over ten years. He has worked for many Fortune 500 companies, implementing high-profile information technology projects across multiple organizations, both on- and offshore. A senior development manager for Fidelity Investments, Paul is also president of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce United States, New England Chapter, a trade organization based in Boston, and he runs their small business incubator center in the city s financial district. Paul holds a degree in Computing Science from the University of Ulster, and is a certified Project Management Professional. He lives in Boston.

Mohsin Habib is associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his P

Edition details

• Publisher: AMACOM
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814414265
• ISBN 13: 9780814414262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288