Developers Unite-pmos is advancing

Developers Unite-pmos is advancing

Angelo Valle
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IF you ' RE A software DEvEloPER, you're probably convinced that A more responsive, adaptable framework is your best chance of producing work-ing software. Unfortunately, the rest of the world are moving to has a more standardized approach throughout all departments. This is good the news for everyone except software developers.
A recently emerging concept in organizational structure are the project Man-agement Office (PMO). This global phenomenon tasks a small group of indi-viduals with the supervision and support of the enterprise projects and PR Ograms. The group ' s purpose is to introduce consistency in documents and templates, standardize reporting processes, and provide a Uniform-to-add business value through projects.
PMOs is intended to be centers of intelligence and coordination. They link strategic business objectives to employees ' actions within departmental proj-ects through unified portfolio Man Agement, program management, and project management practices. A good thing for your job security.
The PMO ' s functions within the business can be:

Strategic. In this role, the members of the Project Management Office complete functions of identification, selection, and Prioritiza tion of the projects that is most closely aligned with the organization ' s strategic planning.
Directive. To fulfill their directive responsibilities, PMO employees define guidelines, standards, and templates. They evaluate and choose how Soft-ware project managers should apply the best practices, tools, techniques, and software To successfully complete the goals of their development teams.

           ? Supportive. The PMO provides support to team members and project managers. This may manifest itself as training classes, adjusting templates and documents to make them work in all departments, or working with a project manager on staffing or other human resource issues.

Project Management Offices is not identical from the Corporation to corporation around the world. Different developmental stage with its project management practices. So, the common name of the PMO may encom-pass numerous hybrid responsibilities drawn from the aforementioned list, or unique Ones not mentioned.
The PMO provides guidance in suitable standardized and validated tools, techniques, and software, thereby reducing problem s due to uncertainty and the growing emphasis on cheaper/better/faster projects. The PMO applies a standardized methodology where necessary and Effective:project identifica-tion, data collection, Analy SIS, information gathering, distribution, report-ing, risk management, procurement, quality, and other project management Knowledge areas such as documentation and communications.
The theme of economic success through a PMO model is a hot topic in interna-tional congresses, seminars, and recently pub lished papers. Academic discus-sions is prolific, because of a growing need to match university experiences with actual "real world" PR Actices. The students of today is the developers of tomorrow.
PMOs is here to stay. If You is currently a software developer, you should is proactive in opening a dialog with your PMO. Communicate your Profes-sional success stories and the uniqueness of the software development pro-cess. If you don ' t, you're liable to being saddled with methods, documentation requirements, and procedures that don ' t fit your NE Eds. Fast, Good, high-quality software is in everyone's best interest.

Developers Unite-pmos is advancing