The Strategic PMO at PMI Sweden Congress

2011-12-12

The Strategic PMO at PMI Sweden Congress

Beth Partleton, chair of the 2011 PMI Board of Directors, will speak at the PMI Sweden Congress - Passion For Projects on “The Strategic PMO.”

The Strategic PMO

Organizations have set up many variations on the Project Management Office or PMO. Their functions range from simply sharing common project management tools and processes to de facto portfolio management. What makes a PMO strategic is not its structure or formal role within the organization, but what it does.

Does it help the organization select, balance and resource projects? Does it foster the growth of project management maturity? Does it deliver efficiencies of scale in shared support for multiple projects and programs? If so, it is improving the alignment of projects with business strategy – and that makes it a strategic PMO, whatever it may be called.