Project Office Experience

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• How does Project Management Office (PMO) save money and optimize resource management?
• What is the place and key functionality of a PMO in an organization?
• How does a 'big picture' of all projects help in executive decision-making?
• Why consistent project management methodology is important?
• How to build, implement, and roll out a PMO and measure its performance?
• Who is Chief Project Officer?

Project Office Experience is designed to include the most common success/fail factors in Project Office operations as experienced by experts around the globe and is built to comply with the leading standards in Project Management.

Project Office Experience is focused on key issues and concepts of daily operational project management:

• Project resource distribution and staffing
• Project management methodology
• PM reporting, 'Big Picture' of all projects for decision-making support
• Project status monitoring & reporting, escalation of project problems and issues
• Project Management Information System support
• Accumulation and preservation of knowledge, best-practice and lessons learned from completed projects

SOLUTIONS

Project Office Experience provides an opportunity to create and improve a real project office in a business organization. Project Office performance is measured by executive management using a number of KPI’s. Simulated time is one year. Annual goal for simulation participants is to create PMO, develop PM methodology, and roll out PMO and its key processes

Project Office Experience is a multiple-team action. Each team consists of 2-4 people representing a single project team reporting to the Steering Committee. There is also a team representing methodology group, which interacts with other teams and guides them in a variety of real-life situations

Teams will be challenged with dynamic real-life situations and will have to navigate their way in project reporting, resource management, proactively interact with the Methodology Group, Steering Committee and Customer.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this simulation, participants will learn about:

• Project Management Office processes, roles & responsibilities
• Consistent project reporting system
• Project Office’ role in the change management process
• Project Office function in 'Big Picture' creation
• Relationship between PMO, Project Managers and Steering Committee
• Skills and knowledge in how PMO creates and updates PM methodology in an organization

PRODUCT DETAILS

Format: Professional Business Simulation

Audience: Anyone involved in, or considering use of, Project Management Office, including:

• Project Office staff members,
• Project Control specialists,
• Project Methodology specialists,
• Project Managers,
• CPOs,
• Executives, considering implementation or roll out of a PMO

Compliance: PMI PMBoK, OGC MSP

Team size: 8-16 participants

Number of teams: from 2 to 4 teams

Duration: 1 day

Facilitator: Certified Facilitator

Language: English

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