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Project management office (PMO)

Project management office (PMO)

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Project management office (PMO)

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- If you think about it, project managers work themselves out of a job as soon as they finish a project. That can actually lead to some serious problems for a company. In this video, we'll see just what those problems are and why you should be thinking about them as you resolve to a course of action for your project. The first issue is that anyone can call themselves a project manager. But mastering the profession of project management involves learning the specialized tools, rules and jargon of the trade. It's hard for someone to master these skills when it's only a temporary job. So it's easy for an organization to end up with lots of amateur project managers but no experts. The second problem is that many project managers work in a functional division of the business. Once their project is finished, there may not be another job for them to do. That's a bad situation for a successful project manager to be put in and a…

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