Development Master Project List and Establish PMO
PROJECT IS COMPLETE.
As part of the plan for the IT Enterprise Plan Objectives FY 07, Information Technology Services (ITS) established a Portfolio Management Office (PMO) in October 2006. The intention of the PMO was to serve primarily as a virtual organization with a light footprint in terms of staffing and methodology.
The PMOs mission was to:
- Promote structure, consistency, and rigor in delivering all major IT projects.
- Establish a standards framework for project tracking and quality assurance, including metrics for assessment.
- Track and maintain status throughout the project's life cycle.
- Serve as a central resource for best practices in project management.
- Guide and mentor individual project managers.
- Communicate project status to stakeholders.
- Ensure financial investments in information technology for new initiatives were tracked. Initially for FY 07,this was $12 million.
- To improve the execution, tracking and results of major ITS initiatives.
- To improve communication to the stakeholders of major ITS initiatives.
The PMO Business Objectives:
Assist in Achieving Strategic Business Goals
- Help the management and executive team select projects that support strategic goals.
- Help the executive team track the entire portfolio of projects in work by developing metrics and measuring all projects against those metrics.
- Provides enterprise-wide project coordination and consistency.
- Collect and archive the documents from completed projects and analyze them for trends.
- Provide a knowledge management system that gathers all project-related information and makes it available in a readily-accessible, useful format.
- Set standards and methodologies for all projects in the enterprise.
- Identify resources that are available to work on upcoming projects.
- Support the project managers and project teams with training, mentoring and career development.
