< Company Name >
Project Management Office Charter
< Date >
Executive Summary
The < Company Name > Project Management Office (PMO) is a service organization created for the specific purpose of supporting Capital Investments and Enterprise Initiatives.
The mission of the PMO is three-fold:
1. Establish, facilitate, and manage the enterprise project portfolio selection and funding process.
2. Create a foundation for consistent IT project success throughout the organization through development of a strong and pervasive Project Management discipline.
3. Guide strategic projects to a successful conclusion by providing project management leadership, while improving the quality and repeatability of related processes.
PMO Objectives
In support of its mission, the PMO has six primary objectives:
1. Develop and Implement Standards for Project Selection: Develop and publish standards and criterion for the project request process, project evaluation, and project funding to ensure that approved projects are aligned with business goals and objectives.
2. Develop and Implement a Standardized Project Management Methodology: Develop and publish project management policy, standards, guidelines and procedures that are scalable for varying project sizes and complexity. Provide project management tools and templates. Act as an advocate and model for good project management practice. Conduct project reviews to monitor effectiveness of and compliance with project management policy, standards and procedures.
3. Build Project Management Professionalism among staff: Mentor, train, and guide project teams as they learn and adopt project management best practices. Support staff in developing project plans.
4. Manage the Project Portfolio: Identify and maintain an inventory of all projects (as approved by the Investment Council) and associated documentation. Ensure required documentation is in place and that stakeholders are properly informed about the ongoing progress of the project portfolio through effective reporting of key performance indicators.
5. Direct Project Management for Key Strategic Initiatives: Provide project management services and oversight for select projects, as directed by senior leadership.
6. Ensure Benefit Realization: Define processes for clearly defining business cases and the associated metrics for measuring project success. Facilitate post-implementation benefit measurement and reporting.
Authority
Through sponsorship by Executive Leadership Team and supervision by the < senior leader >, the PMO gains:
1. Authority to promote enterprise organizational change effectively.
2. Independence that can sustain reporting objectivity.
3. Oversight that can keep work aligned with the business strategy.
4. Legitimacy as it fosters an effective, standardized project management approach.
PMO Staffing
The PMO has three sources of staff:
1. An assigned Director of Program Management and full-time project management staff as required.
2. Temporary resources assigned from other departments to lead/manage projects (matrix relationship to PMO for project management related responsibilities).
3. Contract staff (as needed to manage strategic initiatives).
Project Success
Based on input from executive management, the PMO considers a project to be a complete success when the following are true:
1. Pre-defined business objectives and project goals are achieved or exceeded.
2. Project delivery meets approved schedule and budget targets (as defined by the approved investment request, completed charter, and approved changes).
3. Methods are in place for continual monitoring and evaluation (benefit realization).
Approvals
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< name >
Director of Program Management
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< name >
Senior leader
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< name >
Executive leader