From the course: Delivering Results with a Business-focused PMO
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Priorities and purpose
From the course: Delivering Results with a Business-focused PMO
Priorities and purpose
- Think of any department in your business. If someone asks you what the purpose of that department is, could you tell them? For example, the purpose of sales is to generate revenue, IT is to manage technology, and so forth. For most departments, we'd all give more or less the same answer. That's not the case with a PMO. Answers will probably contain the word project, but that's about it. But the purpose of the PMO isn't any harder to describe than sales or IT. For a business-focused PMO, the purpose is to improve the ability of the business to achieve its goals and objectives through projects. That's it. Nothing more complicated than that. It focuses on project-related work, which is exactly what you'd expect. It improves business performance as a result of its efforts. That second part might be different from your experience with PMOs, and that's because those PMOs have been business-focused. While the purpose is straightforward, the priorities of the PMO are more complicated. No…
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