The PMO Lifecycle: Building, Running, and Shutting Down

by William Dow

The PMO Building, Running, and Shutting Down will provide PMO Managers, Portfolio, Program and Project Managers with the knowledge and skills to Build, Run and Shutdown a PMO. No other text on the market will take you three steps of the PMO lifecycle. This book covers the step-by-step process of building, implementing and running a new or existing PMO. This book • Building industry leading PMO • Building an Agile PMO • Running the day to day operations of the PMO • Shutting down PMOs in an organized and structured manner. • Dashboard and Reporting using the latest tools. This book is a major update to "The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO" so if you liked that book, you are going to love this version. With new tools, new charts and graphs and new step by step instructions, this book is going to help you be successful.

Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2017

About the author

I have been in IT for the last 25 years with 23 of those years focusing on Project Management. I have built 6 Project Management Offices from the ground up using the best practices and core principals of PMI and have been a tactical project manager since 1991.

My latest book (my 4th) is called The PMO Lifecycle: Building, Running, and Shutting Down was published June 2017. This book is a major update to my book The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO. The great thing about this book is linked to an Online PMO course based on building, running, and shutting down a PMO. Information on the course can be found on http://www.dowpublishingllc.com/courses.

I am also the co-author of the Project Management Communication Tools. This book is a major update to my first book Project Management Communication Bible released in 2008 and was released May 2015.

My second book I wrote is called "The Tactical Guide for Building a PMO". The book takes my personal experience in building and implementing PMO's over a 10+ year period and puts it into a format that is easy to read and use for any PMO Manager.

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Reviews

[Fatema · Rating 4 out of 5]

As the name suggests, this is a book that discusses starting and running a PMO. Effective project management is an important factor in the success of projects and of companies. This book captures many real world problems that PMO’s face. This book is best suited for organizations that want to implement a PMO or increase efficiency in delivering project. Success in managing projects depends on how mature an organization is with respect to Project Management. Therefore, I believe the best method to make use of the material in this book is when key personnel collectively read this book together either chapter wise per week or through an in-house seminar.
However, the topic itself is a dry one (just being honest). But the author has tried to overcome the heavy weight of the topic with interesting examples and interactive writing style.

[Shymaa Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is about building project management offices. the book is very useful ad an academic source, and as an application too.