The Top PMO Challenges

Course details

Project management offices (PMOs) frequently struggle with challenges that can be avoided with the right level of knowledge and understanding. In this course, PMP Andy Jordan helps you recognize the common challenges that PMOs face, including those around relationships, influence, internal PMO operations, and even the future of PMOs. Each challenge includes a cheat sheet you can share with your team. Learn how to recognize when problems are occurring, understand why they happen, and evaluate solutions to fix them. Plus, find out how to prevent these challenges from coming back.

Topics include:
- Determine the primary reason business leadership may misunderstand the PMO’s role.
- Describe strategies to enhance trust between the PMO and the project manager.
- Identify steps in the project process in which a PMO is involved.
- Define what is meant by a PMO working tactically.
- Develop strategies for PMOs to embrace challenges in the changing business environment.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Challenges and the project management office (PMO)

1. Relationship Challenges

02 - The business doesn't understand what the PMO does
03 - Leadership doesn't understand what the PMO does
04 - Project managers don't understand what the PMO does
05 - Multiple PMOs don't work well together

2. Influence and Impact Challenges

06 - The PMO isn't involved early enough in planning
07 - The PMO isn't involved after project delivery
08 - The PMO's advice isn't listened to
09 - The PMO is asked to be too tactical

3. Internal Challenges

10 - The PMO has too many objectives
11 - The PMO looks after too many projects
12 - The PMO doesn't have the right tools
13 - The PMO doesn't have enough people
14 - The PMO is struggling to integrate agile
15 - The PMO spends too much time on low-value tasks

4. The Challenge of the Future

16 - The PMO doesn't know where it's going
17 - The organization doesn't know where it wants its PMO to go

Conclusion

18 - A strategy for managing challenges