Project Management Office: Report and Analysis of PMO Functions

This report examines the Project Management Office (PMO), highlighting its role in standardizing project management practices. The report discusses the various types of PMOs, including supportive, controlling, and directive PMOs, and emphasizes the benefits of a PMO environment for project managers. The report also details the functions of a PMO, such as maintaining employee data, promoting information flow, training leaders, planning assets, and standardizing project management techniques. The provided references support the discussion by exploring the dynamics of project management offices and portfolio management co-evolution and reviewing project management office models.

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Discussions
1. A project management office is a group of external or internal to company that sets,
administers and makes sure the standards for the management of project across the
organization. The project management offices are the keepers of the status of project,
direction and best practices all in one office. A PMO ensures the operations, procedures
and the practices of a company. The various types of PMO include supportive PMO,
controlling PMO and a directive PMO (Bredillet, Tywoniak & Tootoonchy, 2018). The
project Management Office strives in order to standardize and introduce various
economies of repetition in the project execution. As a project manager, it is preferable to
work in the project management office environment. This is because the project
management office environment is perfect for the project manager to manage the project.
The project management office consists of various departments in the organization and
various tasks are performed within the project management office. The project manager
can easily manage the project from the project manager office and there will be
subordinates to help the project manager to manage the project and administers the
standards of the management of project within the organization (Monteiro, Santos &
Varajão, 2016).
The functions of the Project Management Office are as follows:
 Maintaining the present data of the employees
 Promoting the flow of information and communication
 Training the leaders of the project and the stakeholders
 Planning of the assets at the level of portfolio
 Standardize the procedures and the techniques in the management of project.

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References
Bredillet, C., Tywoniak, S., & Tootoonchy, M. (2018). Exploring the dynamics of project
management office and portfolio management co-evolution: A routine
lens. International journal of project management, 36(1), 27-42.
Monteiro, A., Santos, V., & Varajão, J. (2016). Project management office models–a
review. Procedía computer science, 100, 1085-1094.