A PMO professional is acting as the PMO leader temporarily in a well-established and mature PMO unit. In this role, a PMO professional receives an escalation from the portfolio manager that a new business stakeholder ' s activity is overlapping with key portfolio management functions.
What should the PMO professional do to resolve this issue?
A PMO professional overseeing multiple projects notices that project managers have varying levels of adherence to the project governance processes.
What should the PMO professional do first to ensure consistent governance across projects?
An enterprise PMO (EPMO) in a large telecommunications company is overwhelmed with service requests from various departments. With limited resources, the EPMO cannot serve all customers and meet their expectations in the short term.
Which action should the PMO professional take to ensure efficient delivery?
A mature enterprise PMO unit in a large, diversified holding is now supporting a new business unit as a result of an organizational transformation. The director of this unit expresses doubts on the value and benefits of PMO support during the annual budgeting process.
How should the PMO professional articulate the PMO ' s value and get buy-in from this stakeholder for the PMO services?
The executive team is concerned with the performance of a PMO. Some customers have complained that service delivery is inconsistent.
What should the PMO professional do first to address these concerns?
A PMO professional is leading a new PMO that aims to enhance organizational PMO maturity. When the PMO professional presents the roadmap to the board of directors, one of the executives says that no resources are available to work with the PMO.
What should the PMO professional do to avoid this situation in the future?
In recent months, a company was contracted to deliver several projects requiring specialist technical resources. Several clients have begun to complain about the limited availability of the specialist technical resources, which will impact their project timelines.
What should the PMO professional do to help solve the problem?
The board of directors wants to oversee the company’s strategic portfolio of capital projects. The PMO will support portfolio management.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure that the portfolio’s alignment to strategy meets executives’ expectations?
A PMO Professional conducted an annual review of PMO performance and found that the PMO’s return on investment (ROI) is lower than last year. The chief executive officer asked the PMO Professional to justify the lower ROI and propose a corrective action plan to improve PMO ROI.
What should the PMO Professional propose?
A PMO professional is supporting project managers who are implementing a new organization-wide user support system. The PMO professional needs to help the project managers enable change management effectively within the organization. In recent years, similar initiatives have failed because employees were too focused on the negative effects of change. The changes were enforced by sending memos to employees who did not adopt the new processes. The instructions to adopt the new processes did not offer any flexibility.
Which approach should the PMO professional recommend to enable change this time?