This course will help you to set up a Project Management Office (PMO) that adds value to your organization’s ability to deliver new initiatives and realize benefits from these endeavors. You will learn how to maximize the effectiveness of your PMO and provide optimum support to project managers, as well as provide sound governance for senior stakeholders, such as project sponsors.
During the course, you will have the opportunity to raise challenges from your organization and discuss these with the facilitator and your fellow course members, to gain innovative suggestions of how to apply good practices in such areas as project integration, scope, schedule, quality, cost, communications, human resource, risk, procurement, and stakeholder management. You will also gain insight into portfolio management and prioritizing project resources.
Enhance project performance by using contemporary tools and techniques.
Assess the best fit structure for your Project Management Office (PMO), taking into account the operating environment.
Describe how to create an effective PMO and identify the key milestones for the journey.
Use continuous improvement and LEAN techniques to drive your PMO forwards and sustain an organization-wide approach.
Relate organizational strategy to the project framework
Develop a business case that outlines the Project Management Office (PMO) challenges and opportunities
Evaluate and increase the project maturity level of the organization
Create the PMO charter and implement the relevant strategy phases
Establish a project management methodology and governance
Assemble the PMO team and establish performance measurements
Discover the consulting role of PMO in knowledge management
Project Professionals
Project Managers
Project Management Office (PMO) Staff
Project team members
Senior Management
All Professionals Involved in Working on or Managing Projects and Programs in an Organization
Key roles of the PMO
Benefits of the PMO
The link between strategy and projects
Aligning strategy with projects
The strategy and projects framework
Portfolios, programs, and projects
Developing a strong PMO business case
Organizational structure for projects
Types of PMOs
Functions of the PMO
Unit 3: Maturity and the PMO:
Defining maturity and capability
Steps for increasing maturity level
Baseline maturity assessment
Project management health check
Maturity gap analysis steps
Organizational project management maturity model (PMI- OPM3
This program provides an introduction to finance and accounting for those who have no prior knowledge of this business area. It is designed to train the participants to support operational and financial processes. Those attending this course will gain a clear understanding of the essential terminology of finance and accounting. They will also learn the principles and techniques of accounting systems through practical examples and exercises.
The overall aim of the program is to ensure that those who attend will be able to perform more effectively and efficiently within the workplace.
Document control and record management should play an important role in identity and access management by protecting sensitive documents from exposure to the wrong parties. They should also support simplified access when needed by allowing authorized parties to quickly search, find, and retrieve archived and active documents. This course provides a strong understanding of the concepts of Document Control and Records Management and develops the requirements to help Document Controllers, Records Managers, and other staff improve the control of critical documents across the organization. Using best practice and time-proven methodologies and techniques, the course enables participants to understand and implement key document control methods and improvement plans, and to understand the impact of wider information management issues and challenges.
Organizations typically start using electronic document management systems to transform paper-based operations after reaching an internal tipping point in which customer response times become too slow, departments don’t have enough bandwidth to solve recurring process bottlenecks, paper archiving becomes too costly or large-scale regulatory risks are exposed during a data breach or compliance fines.
For organizations that have defined but resource-intensive business processes, EDMS is an ideal fit. Document management helps organizations across industries sidestep this busy work entirely by eliminating manual document maintenance, reclaiming valuable staff time, and boosting the bottom-line.
The best leaders thoroughly understand themselves. Time and time again, research has shown that self-awareness and self-direction are two essential factors in leadership effectiveness. As leaders gain a better sense of themselves and a clearer plan to self-actualization.
Mastering the inter-related skills of communication, negotiation, and presentation is the key to success both for individuals building their careers and for the organizations in which they work. Drawing on classical learning, psycho-linguistic research, and ideas associated with NLP and Emotional Intelligence, this highly interactive and hands-on program helps participants explore and practice the principles and techniques they need to be effective communicators, negotiators, and presenters. Most importantly, it focuses on helping them apply these skills in the workplace as part of a process of continuous learning.