Establishing PMO Governance Assignment

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Project governance is an empowering aspect of the project management office (PMO) infrastructure management. The purpose of this assignment is for you to understand and synthesize the application of PM governance as an integrating agent for enabling PMO and business success.

For this assignment, address the following items:

  • Define project governance context of the PMO.
  • Describe the business and stakeholder rationale for PMO governance.
  • Based on a scenario of implementing a PMO in a medium-size organization:
    • Describe the PMO Charter in context of project governance.
    • Identify the empowerment needed to implement PMO governance.
    • Describe optimal governing body for a new PMO.
  • Summarize how the project governance enables the successful implementation of a PMO.

Your responses to these items should meet the following requirements:

  • Your paper should be 2 single spaced pages in length in APA format,
  • Cite at least three current scholarly resources, peer reviewed.

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Introduction and Definition of PMO
Any good governance needs clear responsibilities and roles, which in most case, achieved
through the means of a permanent structure within the host company o firm. The structure of the
good governance helps in supporting temporary frameworks of each project being conducted
(Townsend, 2014). In a company that has programmes as well as portfolios, the said permanent
structure will actually reinforce all the portfolios, projects, and programme. It is against this
backdrop that the support structure, that is infrastructure, need a firm with a Project Management
Office as well as a company that is undertaking different projects (Townsend, 2014). From this
perspective, Project Management Office is defined as the management structure, which regulates
the processes of project related to governance and help in facilitating the sharing of techniques,
tools, methodologies, and resources (Townsend, 2014). The key responsibilities of the Project
Management Office within an organization is to give support functions of project management.
This means it is usually responsible for the direct controlling and monitoring of one or more
projects in a company dealing with projects.
Rationale for PMO
There is the considerable number of reasons why businesses and their stakeholder establish
project management office in their organization (Muller, 2009). One of the reasons for the
establishment of the project management office aligning organizational governance. In an
organization setting, there is an importance of com...


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