Page 372 - Global Project Management Handbook

MANAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT-ORIENTED COMPANY 18-13

TABLE 18.3 Catalog of Possible Services of the PM Office
Services for project and program management
Provision of project management instruments
• Providing instruments for project and program management (guidelines, forms, etc.)
Management support and ensuring management quality
• Management support for projects and programs
• Organizing management consulting, management auditing, and possibly evaluating of projects
and programs
Individual and collective project management learning
• Organizing training and further training in project and program management and coaching of
project and program managers
• Organizing the exchange of experience between project and program managers
Organizational project management learning
• Maintaining a knowledge database for project management
• Benchmarking the competencies for project and program management
Project management marketing
• Marketing the project and program management in the organization
• Developing and maintaining a PM office homepage
Services for project portfolio management
Provision of instruments for project portfolio management
• Providing instruments for project portfolio management (guidelines, forms, etc.)
Assignment of a project or a program
• Review of the quality of investment and project proposals
Project portfolio coordination
• Maintaining the project portfolio database
• Developing project portfolio reports
• Participating in and recording the coordination meetings of the project portfolio group
Networking of projects
• Initializing the networking and contributing to the networking of projects
• Ensuring continuity in the management of chains of projects

TABLE 18.4 Possible instruments of the PM Office
Instruments for project and program management
• Guidelines and forms for project and program management
• Standard project plans
• Guidelines and forms for management consulting and management auditing of a project or
a program
• Career path in project and program management
• Standard training programs in project management
• IT infrastructure (project management software, project portals) and moderation tools
• PM Office homepage
• Project management reference cards
Instruments for project portfolio management
• Guidelines and forms for project portfolio management
• Standards for investment and project proposals
• IT infrastructure for project portfolio management (software for project portfolio management)
• Standard project portfolio reports