Goals
- This course will prepare you to:
- Analyse organisational maturity level in project management
- Establish requirements of a project management office (PMO)
- Learn how to staff a PMO
- Learn how to set up controls to manage a PMO
Audience
- Managers and above, particularly those involved in projects
Content
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- Topic 1: Introduction
- Opening remarks
- Participant introduction and objective of attendance
- Review of objectives
- Topic 2: Strategic Capability
- What is strategic change?
- Identifying strategic portfolio
- What is portfolio management
- What is programme management
- What is project management
- Topic 3: Defining PMO
- What is PMO?
- Why PMO?
- The value of PMO
- Topic 4: Class Workshop 1
- Is PMO really necessary?
- PMO organisation structure
- PMO team member roles and responsibilities
- Presentation by participants (in teams)
- Topic 5: PMO functions
- Evolution of PMO models
- Organising PMO
- PMO tools
- Topic 6: Class Workshop 2
- Case study: PMO Implementation
- Topic 7: Defining Success
- Organisation’s perspective of success
- User’s perspective of success
- Performance measurement
- Topic 8: Implementing PMO
- Scope management and maintaining a master schedule
- Producing a project manager’s toolbox
- Creating customized scalable templates
- Creating a shared resource pool
- Topic 9: Class Workshop 3
- Assess current and past project/programme/portfolio management history
- Prepare a cause and effect analysis with fishbone/Ishikawa diagram
- Topic 10: PMO Principles
- An overview
- Processes and governance
- Continuous improvement programme
- Topic 11: Class Workshop 4
- Develop an executive proposal to set up a PMO in the organisation
- Topic 12: Closing Remarks
- Topic 1: Introduction
Notes
- This course is the recommended entry point to the SAP S/4HANA curriculum for learners without SAP ERP background knowledge.
