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.