What exactly is the PMO like?

PMO What the hell?

When the future project processing units thoroughly sound, to reach the most sophisticated degree of time of the project to do what the unit should do, what is the bulk of the function, that is, about a full PMO its functions and characters are included?

The following model is precisely the UK's Project Processing unit summary Refining model, the model of the most complete project handling units into three pieces of function: The first program function, the second to function, the third outstanding base. The first chunk of the work is to do plans, plan, do the co-ordination; the second block is the intention to perform, how to complete the policy; The third big deal is how to make the project process of people, processes, guidelines can continue to improve, improve and grow, this is what we call the COE outstanding base its effect.

First, the program function, 7 typical responsibility

1 set up the project portfolio, prioritize analysis and presentation

Set up the project portfolio, priority analysis and presentation, that is what we generally call the project portfolio processing. Project portfolio handling The primary problem is that when our company has a lot of intentions, the best can have a priority.

Before I was at Motorola, our project unit was a seasoned project-handling unit, a project-handling unit owned by Motorola Worldwide and shared with all U.S. PMI requests. We've got a guy in there alone. Portfolio Manager is an American, and his first assignment is to prioritize all projects according to the leader's request, that is, which project is the main, sub-major all the major rankings. After all the projects have a merit, that is, when we scramble for project capital, for example, a few projects want to use the same test part of the test capital, but the test capital is now out of the line, the project is based on priority, which project ranked by the former capital priority to the project. When you think of the main purpose of this project, then what you have to do is to think of ways to crush the leader to improve your priority.

So the project portfolio is the first to deal with the problem is to stand on the company's point of view to prioritize all the priorities, its back was originally to ensure that capital first into the company thought the most important project, this function is usually a very important function. It can prevent many projects between wrangling, arguing exactly who is primarily who is not the main, and what is the priority given to those who do not prioritize the question to whom.

Project portfolio processing also need to deal with the question is the constant analysis of the placement of the company is not brought the greatest benefit, this time of the Project portfolio processing function from the capital investment may be input-output than the point of view to care about the intention of input and output, for the company this capital investment is not the best investment into.

Originally, the term portfolio was not originally derived from the intent of the project, but from the stock market. The stock market is a combination, generally we buy the stock market will not buy only one, will buy a lot of stock market, and we will continue to row which is the main point of the market more money into the, which is not necessary to invest less money into. That does the project itself to the company is the practice of investment, the various projects have to do an analysis of the intention of the statement is to be adjusted, which is the function of the project portfolio processing.

2 set up and close project group project

Project Handling unit It also deal with all the projects should be common project and knot, this back in accordance with our common consent to the request to the resolution of this project should not be made, should not be invested in capital, the general company will be the joint project and the work of the knot is placed in the item processing unit inside. This common project and the knot also contains the program accounting, the beginning of our resolution to which project accounting may be accounted for how much, the project is not agreed to invest in these projects, these operations will be placed in the project management unit to pipe. If there is no co-ordination, the various parts in accordance with the idea of a separate resolution of the project, perhaps the resolution to do accounting does not do accounting, this time of our norms will form a lot of questions presented later.

3 Performance Monitoring

In the company we will generally encounter some questions, what is the success of the project, what is the success of the project manager, the intention of the performance of the evaluation, the project Manager performance assessment, how can these have a certain hardship? Originally the company's biggest challenge is that the company's various things will be called projects, when the intention of various types of different kinds of time to evaluate the evaluation of the norms will not be the same, so the more the occurrence of a wide range of policies quasi-time demand a set of common evaluation norms.

Stand in the company's perspective what is a successful project, why must focus on the company's point of view? There is no affirmative right and wrong, any project we can call success can also be called unsuccessful, the key is the direction of the company, and the current needs of the company to see whether this project is a successful project, this time the company is a common demand for evaluation of norms, The Common criteria for evaluation means that the performance is handled and monitored from a common perspective. So in order to make sure we are in the same direction, our policy is common, we agree on the success of the common, so we will generally put the intention to monitor the performance of the project is also placed in the unit.

4 Completion of proceeds

We found that there is a more than a comparison of the scene, the project has been completed after the return of no income we do not know, why? Since the majority of the proceeds in the project after the use of some of the use of some time after the application of the ability to verify, but usually a lot of projects from the beginning of the project from the moment we describe the contrast of the things, perhaps said he described this thing may need 5-10 years or even 20 years, 30 years of talent to complete, So once the project group is dismissed, no one will be in the business of income, this time the project would show the ultimate revenue no one knows.

If we say that the intention of the proceeds of the end no one knows, we will think this project should not be done is not verified, so about the company's contribution to the blindness. About our company to do the project should not do, we are more from the establishment of the intention to do these intentions of the person to describe the intention to distinguish, and actually do not know the future project is not this posture after the item, so the completion of the project proceeds must not be placed in each project team. Since any project team is bound to think that the project itself is made, it is necessary to have a fair part, and this part should be a persistent one, and here we will expect that the project handling unit should be a permanent part, it is best to become functional parts, This part of it will always exist because it has a very important responsibility, it has to verify that the project is the intention of the proceeds are not completed on schedule, some projects may be many years of talent verification, so the proceeds to complete the processing will generally be placed in the project processing units, which is part of its program function.

Project Management Unit program function, the above mentioned four responsibilities are very important, and other there are the parties to promise and exchange, capacity planning and capital processing, planning and guessing functions of the three responsibilities, here first not open narrative.

What exactly is the PMO like?