What does the Project Management Office need?
The Project Management Office is responsible for a variety of project related work.
- The PMO may help the Project Sponsors and Executives select projects, and understand what is happening on active projects and inter-related programs.
- The PMO may work with Project Managers to plan and execute projects.
- The PMO may perform long-term capacity planning and near-term resource management to ensure the right people are in place to get projects done.
- The PMO may create and drive standards, processes, and automated workflows for project planning and execution.
The Project Management Office needs a solution suite that does all of this.
- The solution must provide a portfolio management solution that collects ideas, helps the team score and select the project investments, while accounting for budgets and resources.
- A project management system that helps project managers do the detailed planning for a project creating schedules, assessing risks, and assigning resources, and then executing projects with issue management, resource management, change request management, document management, cost management, and more.
- An analytical system that provides reports and dashboards to help the PMO detect and fix problems, and provide information to the project sponsor and project executives.
With Microsoft Project, each project type can have a standard workflow Microsoft Project allows for Programs to be selected in the context of strategy, budget, and capacity planning. Power BI reports provide visibility to progress, issues, risks, resources, and more.
Have a look at some other project needs by role
- Project Owner – get your project on-time & on-budget, and drive ROI
- PMO – organize your teams to do the right things and deliver successfully
- PM – follow business standards and focus on delivery
- CFO – save project time and budget and drive efficient delivery
- Learn about Project Types and needs.