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Setting up a PMO (Step by Step) Workshop

Setting up a PMO (Step by Step) Workshop is part of Project Victor’s Organizational Project Management pathway, delivered by experienced practitioners for professionals who need practical project results and certification-ready learning where relevant.

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DeliveryBangkok / Live online
Duration21 hours
Course Details

A Clearer Way to Review the Course

By attending this 3-day PMO workshop, you will learn how to set up and build an effective Project Management Office (PMO). This course is meant to help the project management team define an effective approach and establish an effective strategy in setting up their PMO. PMOs are of many types and can go through various stages in their development life cycle. This course emphasizes and proposes an effective approach to successfully implement a PMO taking into consideration many underlying components.

In today’s project driven economy, businesses are increasingly struggling to juggle project delivery targets with profit margins. There is increasing pressure to execute efficiently using a limited number of resources. As such, it has become essential to structure the project management office so that it can become the engine that drives profitable performance for the organization.

Who Should Attend


  • Project managers, Project directors, Program Directors and portfolio heads

  • Functional, business headsand project management consultants

  • Senior management PMO staff, Quality assurance staff

What Is Included


  • A comprehensive set of PMO workshop notes will be issued to every attendee.

  • Step-by-step guide for successful PMO implementation across organization

  • Learn tools and techniques to enhance PMO effectiveness

  • Project Victor Course completion certification

  • 3-Days at a reputable hotel that includes 2 coffee breaks and International Buffet lunch

  • Pens, Pencils, Markers, Eraser
Format & Preparation

What to Expect Before You Arrive

01

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.


  • Case study based approach for workshop

  • Active participation through problem statements, group discussions and role plays

  • Extensive use of real-life templates and other PMO artifacts for effective learning and application

02

Course Duration


  • Three Days (equivalent to 21 Contact Hours or Professional Development Units (PDUs)
03

Prerequisites


  • No pre-requisites required.
What You Will Learn

Skills You Can Apply at Work


  • Introduce delegates to the concept and values of setting up a Project Management Office

  • Understand key ingredients of project management office (PMO) – Processes, structure, operations, tools and techniques

  • Get equipped to adapt PMO within the organization

  • Learn the critical success factors for implementing effective PMOs

  • Minimize the road to project success through the use of good PMO Management
Upcoming Schedule

Next Public Session

No public dates are currently published for this course. Contact us for the next public class or a private corporate schedule.

Course Outline

What the Course Covers


  • Need of a PMO in an organization

  • PMO services landscape

  • Roadmap for setting up PMO

  • PMO at strategic level

  • PMO as center of excellence

  • PMO operations

  • Improving PMO effectiveness on ongoing basis

Course Outline

Need of a PMO in an organization

  • Organizational project challenges and pain areas
  • Drivers for PMO
  • PMO for achieving business objectives and benefits

PMO services landscape

  • PMO services and models
  • Focus areas for PMO

Roadmap for setting up PMO

  • Defining PMO objectives and scope
  • Defining PMO services, responsibilities and KPI’s
  • Creating roadmap for PMO adoption
  • Introduction of the case study for hands-on activity



Day 2

PMO at strategic level

  • Governance structure and PMO interfaces
  • Steering committee for strategic decisions

PMO as center of excellence

  • Defining and standardizing organizational processes for project management
  • Defining metrics implementation framework
  • Defining strategy for change and risk management
  • Selection of enterprise project management tools
  • Project repository and knowledge management
  • Learning and development of project management personnel

Case study based hands-on activity for Day 2 learnings

PMO operations

  • Project review and audits
  • Project support and guidance
  • Adoption of process improvement framework
  • Management and stakeholder communications

Improving PMO effectiveness on ongoing basis

  • PMO KPI dashboard
  • Process improvement and feedback loop
  • Tracking business benefit realization


Discussion about EPM tool

Reflection of PMO workshop learnings and discussion of adoption strategy (open house discussion and Q and A)

Other Information (any other information you have included that helps potential participants under further the purpose of this course).

Your Instructor

Trainer Credentials & Experience

Dr. Petros Rigas
Dr. Petros Rigas, PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, RMP, SAFe SPC 6.0

Dr. Petros Rigas

President of PMI Thailand Chapter for 13 years (2011–2023) · Past President & Chapter Counselor
  • PMI licensed training instructor — profile on PMI’s global website.
  • Certified Program Management Professional (PgMP®) — Certificate #2079271.
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP/CAPM®) — Certificate #1258917.
  • Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) — Certificate #2600926.
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM®), Scrum Alliance — Certificant ID 001062861.
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)® 6.0 — Certificate ID 50804412-3031.
  • SAFe Agilist® 6.0 — Certificate ID 23353981-8934.
  • Certified Risk Management Professional (RMP®) — Certificate #2033120.
  • Mega-project leadership experience in IT, airport, CCTV, transport, and power infrastructure.
  • Commercial contract manager, reviewer, and advisor.
  • Part-time lecturer at KMUTT (Master’s in Project Management) and an invited lecturer at Chulalongkorn University.
  • Doctorate from Assumption University of Thailand, with publications on business management.
  • Trained 5,000+ project professionals and helped certify 800+ PMPs/CAPMs/PMI-ACPs in Thailand since 2010.
PMI Authorized Training Partner InstructorATP #502913 Years PMI Thailand Chapter PresidentProfessional profile
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