At the time of large-scale organizing, ability and quality of project management (PM) of the whole organization in order it improves, for individual project to be executed smoothly, supporting the special post which is installed in purpose. Even "project office" "project support section" and so on you say.
Generally, it becomes dispersion in individual project with responsibility, attendant upon project end, unlike the "project team", PMO is installed as the standing post which has responsibility in standardization, quality control and talent rearing etc. of company-wide project management technique.
As the function of PMO in addition, monitoring of adjustment between plural projects/portfolio analysis and individual project/audit, you can list the support of the project manager/consulting etc.. In addition, when individual project ends and the project team disperses, as for the PM know-how which is produced there there is a possibility of being lost, there is also the direction which expects intellectual property management and the knowledge management function that, but it sucks up such know-how,systematizes,transplants to the other project team.
The function and role and installation mode of PMO differ largely depending upon introduction enterprise. IT and the medicine manufacture/biology, in construction industry, the majority of businesses is project, very the quality influences the achievement and future of enterprise. Because of that, maintenance improvement of continuous PM ability in purpose, there is also an example which is installed in the form of management level direct connection. |