Types of PMO
PMO Centre of Excellence
The PMO Centre of Excellence (PMO CoE) serves as the home of your project design, delivery and deployment standards and accelerators. It is a friendly source of advice and education for delivery teams, and a provider of assurance to in-flight projects.
Portfolio Management Office
The Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) gathers the information you need to check that "bright ideas" are truly aligned to strategy and have a worthwhile business case, before you sign off on the investment. It then monitors progress on all in-flight initiatives so you can intervene early enough to make a difference.
Programme Management Office
The Programme Management Office (PgMO) ensures you get an over-arching plan, a coherent view across projects, and the ability to manage complex interdependencies. It also ensures the later projects in a programme learn the lessons of the earlier projects.
Project Management Office
The Project Management Office (PjMO) takes much of the burden of governance, reporting and risk management away from busy and expensive project managers. Combined with the PMO CoE, it also ensures senior managers get a coherent view across multiple projects.
Product Management Office
The Product Management Office (PdMO) combines elements of PMO CoE and Portfolio/ Project offices with Product Management disciplines to give visibility and control to the Agile prioritisation, delivery and operation of products and services.
Agile Centre of Excellence
The Agile Centre of Excellence (ACE) combines PMO and Agile practices to support the whole-life idea-to-operations flow with an Agile mindset at every stage. In practice, this is often like a scaled-up version of the Product Management Office, but without the requirement for everything to be a product.
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