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Literature Review: Project Management Office (PMO)
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Literature Review: Project Management Office (PMO)
Definition and History of PMO
According to the definition of Shein, Project Management
Office (PMO) is a department or a group within a business, enterprise, or
agency defining and maintaining project management standards with the context
of the organization (Shein, 2017). Also, PMO can be defined as an internal unit
within the operator organization and owner responsible for the overall project
control and assurance (Sergeeva & Sultan, 2020). PMO has a primary goal of
achieving benefits from the project management process, standardizing, methods
and policies, and it is embodied in the strategy and the culture of an
organization. PMO has origins linking to the implementation of the scientific
method of management and was introduced a century ago by Frederick Taylor
(Giraudo, L. & Monaldi, 2015). Just like management practices in an organization,
PMOs keep evolving. PMO has shifted from administrative to strategic; PMOs are
today performing a widened range of activities; they are supporting programs
and projects away from IT like post-merger integrations, project launches. PMOs
are at the enterprise level, helping institutions to invest in the desired set
of initiatives which help in realizing maximum returns to the organization
(Giraudo and Monaldi, 2015). The popularity
PMO came way in the 1990s, and has become the point of reference of many
studies and reports because professionals, practitioners, and academics are
able to categorize, explain, and categorize PMO.
Types of PMO