The Program Management Office Advantage: A Powerful and Centralized Way for Organizations to Manage Projects - Softcover

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Lia Tjahjana has more than seven years of project management experience in various industries, including finance and construction, both in the public and private sectors. An entrepreneur, she also has had experience with establishing and running an online business. She has a Master of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University, a Master of Engineering Science in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

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An all-in-one guide to new trends and best practices in project management: Program Management Office

Program Management Office (PMO) is the secret weapon employed by Fortune 500 companies to get complex, simultaneous projects completed on time and on budget. Pioneered in the IT industry, PMO eliminates the haphazard nature of running multiple projects by creating a central office responsible for allocating limited resources, setting consistent measures, and monitoring progress. But PMOs powerful tools and techniques can be used in any industryconstruction to finance, health care to educationto enhance efficiency and performance.

The Program Management Office Advantage is the first practical, down-to-earth guide to PMO that anyoneproject managers, IT professionals, line managers, and company executivescan quickly understand and implement. This complete, how-to guide covers the entire spectrum of issues and duties, from building a financial case for establishing a PMO to forging consensus about its impact on your organization from implementing a fail-proof plan to improve project success rates to establishing standard practices that reduce the need to reinvent the wheel from staffing the PMO with highly qualified people to leading it with the skills and knowledge that guarantee success.

Its all here, in one essential resource to setting up and managing a state-of-the-art PMO that ensures all of your organizations projects are running in the most efficient and effective manner possible.

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Are the project managers in your organization scrambling for people, time, and funding? Are they wasting effort on overlapping projectsor the wrong projects altogether? Maybe your organization is plagued by cost overruns, delays, and cancellations? Program Management Office (PMO) is the newest solution to the challenge of how to effectively manage complex, concurrent projects.

As a single office responsible for overseeing all of an organizations projects, PMO goes well beyond the traditional scope of project management, adding a new level of efficiency, accountability, and strategic oversight. Now you can put the enormous benefits of PMO to work in your organization with the strategies and tools in The Program Management Office Advantage. This all-in-one resource helps you:

Evaluate the pros and cons of establishing PMO in your organization, and prepare a cost-benefit analysis to justify your decision.

Set up a world-class PMO from scratch, overcoming resistance from internal project managers and outside vendors.

Determine where to locate the PMO in your organizations structure for optimal interaction.

Build a customer-centric approach to helping your project teams achieve their goals.

Set detailed guidelines for managing vendors and contractors, and maintain a database of pertinent information on each.

Implement a five-step knowledge-harvesting process to ensure that all project documentation is collected and stored.

Train your project managers in PMO best practices to continually improve your organizations performance.

Select the projects that best serve your companys goals and align with its strategy.

Use a gateway review at each stage of a project to ensure that results are delivered, budgets are approved, and resources are available.

From quickly getting projects off the ground to consistently measuring results to successfully leading the department, The Program Management Office Advantage gives you the latest, most effective PMO strategies and toolsin an easy-to-understand format that lets you put the information to work immediately.

Lia Tjahjana has more than seven years of project management experience in various industries, including finance and construction, both in the public and private sectors. An entrepreneur, she also has had experience with establishing and running an online business. She has a Master of Liberal Arts in Management from Harvard University, a Master of Engineering Science in Project Management, and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She lives in Boston.

Paul Dwyer, PMP, has been involved in project management in the financial services industry for over ten years. He has worked for many Fortune 500 companies, implementing high-profile information technology projects across multiple organizations, both on- and offshore. A senior development manager for Fidelity Investments, Paul is also president of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce United States, New England Chapter, a trade organization based in Boston, and he runs their small business incubator center in the citys financial district. Paul holds a degree in Computing Science from the University of Ulster, and is a certified Project Management Professional. He lives in Boston.

Mohsin Habib is associate professor of management at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He received his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches Strategy and International Management at the University of Massachusetts and the Harvard University Extension School. He has been involved with executive education seminars on strategy for management groups in the United States and abroad. His current research interest focuses on strategy, competition, and sustainable development, especially for developing markets. He has presented his findings in numerous conferences, and has been published in reputed journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He lives in Boston.