Project Management: TRAINING

The Project Office: Its Important Role (and What to Do if You Don’t Have One)

One of the changes to the 2000 edition of the PMBOK Guide was to acknowledge the role of the project office. The acknowledgment is brief but helpful, stating that the project office’s functions can range from simply “providing support functions to project managers in the form of training, software, templates, etc.” (section 2.3.4., p. 21). all the way up to the actual management of projects. If you have a project office in your organization, they very likely will be your first stop as you perform your project management training needs assessment. (In fact, you probably have already been talking with them.) They often will have materials, templates, forms, and numerous ...