The Project Management Office (PMO): A Quest for Understanding

by Monique Aubry, Brian Hobbs

Since project management offices began to appear in organizations over the last decade, project management practitioners and their organizations have been asking how to structure project management offices (PMOs) and what functions to assign them. In The Project Management Office (PMO): A Quest For Understanding, authors Brian Hobbs and Monique Aubry address these questions, providing a look at how PMOs exist today, and some clues about how and why they’re changing. Of particular interest to practitioners, the authors address the roles that PMOs play in organizations, which provides valuable insights for better creating, structuring and governing PMOs. When designing a PMO, an organization has a variety of choices regarding the PMO’s structure and role assignment. By providing a way to define PMOs by type, this research explores how to set up and define a PMO, depending upon the specific type of PMO The authors discuss the many bases for the types of PMOs, including structural characteristics and functions, and how these types affect the PMO’s role in the organization.

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 29, 2010

Reviews

[Bruno · Rating 1 out of 5]

Far too academic and abstract approach to the topic. Not much, if anything, actionable.
Seems to be rooted in academic research and a traditional approach to program management while many industries are trying to move to new approaches more suited to current competitiveness demands