The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational PerformanceDescribing the initiation, design, execution, and control of a strategic project office, this book provides step-by-step instructions for establishing a PMO. The author emphasizes cost management, cultural change, risk assessment, resource allocation, and skills tracking to increase project value, organizational efficiency, and productivity. He explores various aspects relating to planning and implementing the strategic project office, and concludes by considering how to change the organizational culture to match the new organization. Concise and easy, the book covers the many pitfalls and minefields and provide strategies to avoid them. |
Contents
The Project Office Concept | 1 |
The Starting Gate Assessing Your Current Condition | 21 |
Project Office Rationale Organization Structure and Functions | 55 |
Meet the Players | 83 |
Project Office Planning Preparation and Strategy | 109 |
Establishing a Project Management Methodology | 143 |
Knowledge Management and the Project Office | 179 |
The Technical Infrastructure | 205 |
The Stategic Project Office | 227 |
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The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational Performance J. Kent Crawford No preview available - 2001 |
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activities agement analysis assessment Balanced Scorecard benchmarking best practices budget business unit Capability Maturity Model cess change control Chapter Checklist Communities of Practice completed corporate cost culture defined deliverables deploy deployment document ensure established evaluated executive focus functional Gartner Group goals Group identify impact implementation individual projects initiative integrated issues knowledge areas knowledge management lessons learned Lynn Crawford managing projects Maturity Model ment mentoring metrics objectives office steering committee organization's organizational performance phase PMBOK portfolio management prioritization project charter Project Management Institute project management maturity project management methodology project management process project management software project office steering project plan Project Portfolio Management project risk project schedule project team requirements responsible role scope skills specific stakeholders standards Strategic Project Office structure success tasks team members tegic templates tion