Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Enterprise Program Management Office

In recent days, whenever I introduce myself to anyone as EPMO project planning manager, they ask - “What is EPMO?” - :-). Enterprise Program Management Office is really new to many of the small and medium size organizations, because of less experience in such big projects. Let me take this opportunity to discuss few major points about EPMO and its operations here.

What is EPMO, and its responsibilities?

As a quick view Enterprise Program Management Office helps to speed up project implementations within existing company guidelines and improves efficiency in the realizations of the business delivery.

The main responsibilities of an EPMO regarding the different programs are basically

1. Strategic Resource Planning
2. Inter-project co-ordination
3. Overall project oversight
4. Cost estimations
5. Contingency planning
6. Quality Assurance
7. Resource Management
8. Professional Development
9. Coaching & Guidance of Management
10. Process and Change Management
11. Tool Support and Training

In our future articles, let’s discuss more about every single functional sections of EPMO…

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