Chapter 41 The PMO

Monique Aubry

DOI: 10.4324/9781003274179-46

Introduction

Project management offices (PMOs) are now part of the organizational landscape for project delivery within the kind of project-based society that we currently live in. PMOs are generally put in place in various economic sectors and in various categories of projects. For example, large banking institutions generally have multiple PMOs at different levels, taking care of hundreds of projects in different departments. PMOs are also encountered in public or private major projects, where they tend to play an integration role both on the client and supplier side. The broad range of PMO situations makes it very difficult to prescribe a fixed and limited number of PMO types ...

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