Seminar: Take Your PMO to the Next Level (14 PDUs)

This two-day seminar has been offered by PMI SeminarsWorld and at PMI Global Congresses in North America and in EMEA.

For two-day public seminar, seminar times are: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (with one-hour lunch break)

Next public offering:  Dates: TBD;  Location: Research Triangle Park (Raleigh), North Carolina

For online seminar, take your time, for six months from your registration date, $399 (14 PDUs).

Registration for online seminar will start soon (right here!)

Instructor:
    Victoria Kumar, PMP   

Seminar Description

Whether you’ve just started a Program Management Office (PMO) or you’re on way to building a Strategic Project Office, this seminar is “must attend” for PMO Directors and PMO Program Managers, in learning ways to advance your PMO, taking your PMO to the next level – to a mature, stable and strategic PMO. PMOs are utilized in a number of ways in the different industries today. Depending on your organizational needs, your PMO may be charged with:

·         implementing a project/program management methodology

·         leading organizational changes in promoting a project management culture

·         institutionalizing organizational processes and methodologies

·         managing programs and projects at enterprise-level

·         improving the organization's overall performance.  

As the PMO delivers tremendous benefits at enterprise-level, executive management finds new ways to get the PMO involved in other organizational endeavors.

PMO Directors and PMO staff need to be prepared to advance the PMO to live up to the organizational needs and expectations.

This seminar will cover approaches in starting a PMO, successfully implementing a PMO and advancing your PMO to a strategic level.

Who should attend this seminar?

• Project office staff and project office directors who have been assigned the responsibility to implement a project office.

• Program management office (PMO) managers/directors interested in influencing the growth and advancement of their existing PMO.

• Project management  consultants interested in understanding the utilization of a PMO in a strategic role in an organization, in implementing an organizational project management approach, and in standardizing project management  processes/tools, and in establishing a project management culture in the organization.

  
  This seminar is suitable for newly-established PMOs (less than three-year old PMOs), as well as for well-established PMOs moving to the strategic level.

What will the seminar cover?

• Starting a PMO
  • Understanding PMO concepts, the different roles of a PMO in an organization, the organizational benefits of a PMO – the basis for the increasing popularity of the PMO
  • Gaining awareness of the challenges in building a PMO, learning of ways to handle these challenges
  • Developing the PMO Charter – Do you have a PMO Charter that is approved by your sponsors.
• Successful Implementation of a PMO
  • Establishing a PMO – Hints and tips are helpful, but a structured methodology is required for this very challenging undertaking
  • A group exercise in developing a PMO implementation plan given a specific PMO Project Charter. With an approved and well-defined PMO Project Charter, developing the PMO Implementation Plan is a very critical project management task.
  • PMO Scorecard – How effective is your PMO?  How well is your organization realizing the value of the PMO? How is PMO success measured?
• PMOs today – the current state of PMOs today. Results of research studies on PMO structure, functions and contributions to their organization.
• PMOs in RTP  
  • Directors/Managers from RTP organizations will be invited to present about their PMO
  • Learn how PMOs in RTP practice Program/Portfolio Management
• Program and Portfolio Management Methodologies
  • How can the PMO utilize the new PMI Standard for Program Management and the Standard fro Portfolio Management in implementing Program and Portfolio Management methodologies?
  • How the new credential for Program Management Professional (PgMP) can help the PMO?
• Advancing to a Strategic Project Office
  • Influencing PMO growth – The PMO needs time to mature and stabilize, and its growth has to be well planned. Considerations for PMO plans for growth could include the organization’s commitment to improving the organizational Project Management Maturity level through PMI’s OPM3, implementing projects/programs to achieve the organization’s strategic goals through the  PMO and conducting Portfolio Management at an enterprise level.
  • Building a strategic PMO – The PMO can be a strategic component of an organization. The utilization of the PMO as a means for the organization to attain its strategic vision is dependent upon the PMO growth being a part of the organization’s strategic direction.

Instructional Methods
Includes lecture, case studies, group discussion and group/individual exercises.

Level: Introductory to Intermediate

PMO Seminar 2009 Offering Dates and LocationsTBD

Instructor's Bio

Victoria S. Kumar, MS, PMP

Victoria S. Kumar, PMP, has over 20 years of information technology (IT) project management experience, including 10 years with IBM and 7 years in IT consulting. She is a project manager for the state of North Carolina, USA, Office of the State Controller. She holds two master's degrees: one in Pure Mathematics, and another in Computer Science. She also has PhD credits in management science from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has earned a master's certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University (USA). She is a Past President of the PMI-North Carolina Chapter. She has served with the chapter’s board of directors for the last seven years. She co-founded the chapter's PMO Local Interest Group. She has been active in the PMO community, serving as a PMO program manager and as a PMO consultant in both the private and public sectors for the last eight years. She is a graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute (Master's Class of 2004) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®). She is a frequent speaker at PMI global congress and at PMI Chapter Symposia. As a seminar leader for Project Management Leaders Training, a PMI Registered Education Provider, she delivers Project Management seminars and online courses (eSeminars) to PMI SeminarsWorld®, to PMI Components, and to project management communities globally. Her seminars on Requirements Management and on Program Management Offices are well received by project management communities globally.