However, because many friends of PMO left their homes or jumped ship, it is inevitable that they do not have an overall understanding of PMO.
Therefore, there will always be someone asking in the background of the official account of Laoyuan WeChat: What does PMO do? What are the development prospects? Where is the application? What is the classification and hierarchy of the organization? What are the functions and responsibilities?
So today, Lao Yuan solved these problems.
About what PMO is, we should explain it from several parts, such as definition, authority, responsibility and function. Next, let's start with its definition!
Definition of PMBOK: The Project Management Office (PMO) is an organizational department that standardizes the governance process related to the project and promotes the sharing of resources, methods, tools and technologies.
PMO is defined by Project Management Institute (PMI) as an organizational element responsible for creating and supervising the whole management system, which exists for the effective implementation of project management behavior and the maximization of organizational goals. (Quoted from Baidu Library)
Responsibilities can be large or small, and can be service support or direct management of one or more projects.
But there are two kinds of PMOs that we often talk about: one is an organization by definition, and the other is a PMO as a personal position (that is, the person in charge of this organization). In fact, the ultimate goal is the same.
Actually, ask me about the location of PMO. In fact, PMO is the "partner" of managers and enterprises, broadening their horizons and facing this management field with an exploratory attitude.
In fact, everyone has a "PMO" in mind, but in fact, PMO has always been self-iterative, adapting to the development of enterprises and markets.
The functions and responsibilities of the project management office are actually divided into many categories. From the general direction, mainly:
Manage responsible projects and enjoy resources;
Formulate project management processes and methods;
Responsible for counseling, training, guidance and supervision;
Formulate project management objectives, procedures and document forms;
Cross-project communication and coordination, resolve resource conflicts and optimize resource allocation.
In the above aspects, the specific content of Laoyuan has been slightly expanded.
The first important function of PMO is to authorize the project manager, so it is necessary to provide basic support, including standard implementation, training and authorization.
Establish standards and processes after thoroughly understanding the strategic objectives, bottlenecks and departmental coordination of the organization and team.
Generally, enterprises that set up PMO are relatively large-scale enterprises, which will involve the mode of multi-project management:
Generally speaking, performance monitoring is a very basic function of PMO, and the situation of each company is different, but the specific scope is about the following three points:
Why put strategic management last is because every company has a different positioning of PMO. When you can achieve PMO at the strategic management level, the annual salary of one million is not a big problem.
The issues of strategic concern are also different. They need to participate in the strategic planning of the company, support the decision-making of the leadership, and be responsible for the profits of the organization and enterprises.
Before talking about the prospect, we should actually know what types of PMOs are and which PMOs has more development prospects! A truly excellent PM has strong ability and influence.
Not every project management office plays an important role. If you want to ask me about the development of PMO, I suggest you judge which role and type this position belongs to first.
Whether you belong to strategic level, control level or support level, the corresponding salary and development prospects are completely different!
Finally, everyone is concerned about the development prospect of PMO. The subtext behind the development prospect is how about salary and where is the ceiling?
Make sure that PMO has a very good development prospect, and your development space is also very large, but it depends on your ability and level.
I temporarily searched the recruitment website for "PMO leader". In fact, I think the salary range of this position is very large, with a gap of 20k-200k, 10 times. After seeing this, you can rest assured of the development prospects. ...
If there is no problem in the development prospect, we must solve our own problems. Then click on the recruitment requirements of 20k and 200k respectively, and you can still find a big difference:
It is required to emphasize execution and ensure support work; Basic certification is required, and ACP, PMP and other certificates are preferred.
PMO at this stage can also be awarded points through some authoritative certificates. But which PMO with a monthly salary of 200,000 is not from 20k?
PMO with a monthly salary of 200,000 must attach importance to the company's strategic decision-making level and emphasize strategic project management.
It has a complete project management methodology, you see, it comes from the growth of 20k mentioned by Lao Yuan. In the requirement of 20k PMO, PMP certificate is the certification of complete project management method.
So everyone has laid a good foundation, and it is still very promising to get an offer of 200k!
PMO is an important part of many project managers' career planning. This position requires us to understand the whole organizational structure and learn to look at projects and management from a strategic perspective.
Often talk to some friends about the future development of PMO. Some people hold a negative attitude, because it is easier for most people to get promotion and growth by developing their own supporting jobs in the primary stage, but they often encounter ceilings in the middle and late stages.
But in fact, I think the ceiling still falls to the ability itself. PMO is a special role, and with the management ability accumulated by experience, there are still many possibilities to say channels:
In fact, with more roads and more people, the path will become clearer. The most important thing is to constantly improve yourself and improve your ability.
Every excellent project manager should focus on a higher level, understand management, products and business, and improve his ability by benchmarking the head of strategic PMO, so as to achieve his own growth while properly completing the project.
I am Lao Yuan, focusing on sharing PMP and dry goods knowledge of project management.