CIS 498 Strayer University Week 3 Chapter 12 Effective PMO Discussion
Chapter 12, “The Project Office,” in your Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence textbook.
- What Is a PMO? [11 min].
- How to Successfully Lead a PMO [59 min].
A PMO plays a major role in propagating the project management culture in any organization. For this discussion, assume you are tasked with establishing a PMO in an organization.
Please respond substantively to the following (3–4 paragraphs):
- What are the key characteristics of a successful PMO?
- Would you hire an experienced project manager or an external consulting company to establish the PMO?
- Be sure to provide your rationale.
Be sure to provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards.
- For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course.
Please respond substantively to at least one other post (1–2 paragraphs). Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses.
If possible, choose a post that had a different idea than you did about who to hire to establish the PMO. Consider questions such as these in your response to your classmate:
- What key characteristics of a successful PMO did your classmate include that you didn’t consider?
- What points did your classmate make about hiring an experienced project manager or an external consulting company that you find especially persuasive?
- What are some challenges your classmate might face with his/her chosen course of action?
- What resource would you recommend to your classmate to deepen his/her knowledge of and skills in establishing a PMO?
