What is a PMO? Project Management Office or...

PMO stands for Project Management Office.
...or Program Management Office.
...or Portfolio Management Office.
So, what is PMO?

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[Onlinepmcourses]

A PMO is increasingly seen as an essential part of many enterprises. So what is it? Or, more accurately, what are they? Because PMO can stand for different things!

[saveplanet]

PMO is really vast and not as easy as it is thought. And Mike has explained that quite well. Different organisations render different definitions for Portfolio, Progeam and Project Management office. I had most of my learning in this area working with the global banks and it definitely has a much wider scope when it comes on a leadership team to align the business objectives with the investments they are making in different areas and projects that sit beneath those areas. Thanks for the quick walkthrough Mike.

[mazjeb]

simple and valuable, Thanks dear Mike

[Hellosilvio]

I have a follow-up quesiton on this video: is a PMO different from a COE? The way you describe a project management office resonates with my understanding of a center of excellence, insofar as both are concerned with keeping governance over multiple projects and refining processes/methodologies for other business units. How are they related, and how do you differentiate the two types of organization?

Thank you always for making great videos, Dr. Clayton. Sending you warm regards from South Korea!

[girivenkatsaiavinashkomali]

I got PMO as domain in my company. Is this good for fresher to grow in IT sector(in terms of salary)?

[andreyru]

Sorry, not clear. These 3 structures may co-exist in an organisation? If yes, then how? We do have projects, programs and probably portfolios in the company, so should be managed by 1 or 3 PMOs?

[icerook]

Great videos, not sure why there are not more views, but anyway, I have a question, can a "simple" example of all three PMO's be something like this, ProjMO = Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, etc, the ProgMO = MS Office Suite, the PortMO = Microsoft?

[thegoalie]

My 4 hours sunk in to youtube and google resources for Project Management has lead here, in prep for a job interview - and I still don't know what PMO is lol. I understand Scrum and Agile, what the heck is PMO lol. I understand the difference between projects, programs, and problem. Seems like PMO is just some abstract and customizable concept for how team PM team should operate? I'll just ask them what it means to them and that will keep them talking for a while I'm sure :)

[mohammedrafielahi]

Hi, I joined as PMO in IT Organization, but every one is telling me that, this not a good career choice particularly in India.. please provide your valuable suggest.. how can I take this role as positively.. Thanks..

[heavyflippingrandmasboifir]

Great video but how is it that 42 people found this useful, however, there are two ✌️ folks out there that just didn't think 🤔 PMO was their cup of tea...

[allantwoodman]

It would be better if compliance was mandatory, imho

[ballinspalding]

I don't understand the difference between a PMO and a regular project manager

[julianlappat]

This was the vaguest explanation I've ever heard. How about a bunch of case specific examples? You just said it is undefined and there are likely 3 directions to go. I miss case-based information and tools to execute it.