Project management instance (1)-different PMO

 

The company is a software company mainly providing information products and services for military enterprises such as the Electronics Industry and aerospace industry. The boss is influenced by his own working experience in the manufacturing industry, and sets the organizational structure of a software company as a factory. Almost every job is undertaken by one department and is not allowed to participate in other jobs. For example, in the pre-sales phase, the sow is completed by the consulting department. After the contract is signed, it is transferred to the Implementation Department. The project manager and business consultant of the Implementation Department will go to the customer for business research, compile the Business Research Report and business demand statement. After the review, the document can be passed to the downstream. the downstream part is the design department, which is responsible for demand analysis and outline design. The following is the Development Department, responsible for detailed design and coding ....... The boss thought quite well, but the biggest problem was coming soon. Documents in the software process were difficult to standardize, and there were difficulties in reviewing documents. In all stages, we hope that the upstream outputs must meet the downstream input requirements. Otherwise, the downstream departments will not be connected !, Therefore, the design department complained that the business requirements written by the Project Manager and business consultant were not detailed enough and were not accurate enough. The project manager and business consultant could not perform the requirement analysis and the review failed again and again. In the same way, the Development Department does not accept the requirements and specifications written by the architect of the design department, and considers that the detailed design and coding work cannot be guided. The architect thinks that they are only responsible for requirement analysis and outline design, all the things required by the Development Department should be done by the developers themselves ...... In addition to writing business requirements, the Project Manager coordinates and coordinates the entire day. The downstream departments do not accept the outputs of the upstream departments, it is also difficult for the project manager to determine whether the program should be uploaded to the next great event. There are a lot of tasks to be coordinated. What's more, their documents are often criticized by others, and it seems that they are not qualified for coordination. In the past few years, there were not many contract projects in the company, and the company focused mainly on products. However, even for product development, the business definition of product managers is also difficult to transmit. A project team is composed of people from various departments. Both the product manager and the Project Manager are struggling to push each step. In this case, the boss envisaged the establishment of a company-level integrated management department, the company's main backbone, such as the project manager and product manager concentrated in one department, for overall coordination and total responsibility. This department has been granted considerable rights, because the boss hopes to find a "strong" person who can "manage" him ". In this context, I took office immediately. My department is set to PMO. Unlike PMO in general companies, I directly lead the project manager. No matter who, no matter which department or position, I only need to be a project manager, all belong to my leadership. Project managers manage and assess team members in different departments. Even if the team members are managers of other departments or even deputy directors of technology, they are still under the leadership and assessment of the project manager. Therefore, I am a real PMO
(Officer's O, not office's O), manages and controls all the company's projects and products. In fact, it is not only our boss, but also the implementation of cmme in the industry, many companies dream of "Software factories, blue-collar software, and running water jobs ...... Since the 1990s S, I have stayed, consulted, and pre-sales software companies, I haven't seen any company that can really make the software development process the same as the production and manufacturing process! However, my company is in such an organizational structure and management mode, which brings about numerous questions and debates. However, we cannot convince our boss at a higher level, because no one dared to say that a different management method would be better than the current one, because although there are more coordination tasks and the efficiency is lower, however, this ensures that a project can be completed only when multiple people participate in the project. Therefore, the departure of a person will not affect the project much. Maybe time can prove everything. A year and a half have passed. At most, the company was engaged in nearly 20 projects at the same time, all of which were pure software projects of millions. I am exhausted, and various problems have emerged. I have learned the lessons of failure, and I still have more experiences of success. Some project managers are new to me and some are old employees of the company. With the solution of one problem, the project managers and myself have improved a lot ...... More conclusions can only be drawn from practice, rather than subjective inference. Next, let's talk about "experiences in selecting project managers"