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A newly hired PMO professional is tasked with improving the executives' level of satisfaction with the PMO's performance. The PMO was established last year and has not been very successful in attending to the needs of the PMO customers.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to address this issue? (Choose 2)
An experienced PMO professional is tasked with establishing guidelines and procedures to ensure effective decision-making and accountability throughout the project life cycle in a large-scale project management environment. The PMO professional needs to facilitate the establishment of structured guidelines and procedures to govern project activities and promote organizational alignment.
Which action should the PMO professional prioritize?
An organization is forming a PMO. The team responsible for running the PMO is being recruited; it includes a mix of people from internal departments and external resources. One of the team members hired to work on the PMO has a lack of experience in certain services of the PMO that will be included in their assignment.
What should the PMO professional do?
After a recent organizational shift, a group of project managers has been reassigned to the PMO from their previous departments. Although familiar with the PMO, they are unaware of its services or customers. These project managers are highly skilled and well regarded by their peers.
What should the PMO professional prioritize to effectively onboard the project managers into the PMO?
In an organization, the executives focus mainly on project operational deliverables. How should the PMO professional support the executives in fostering a business-value-driven perspective?
A PMO professional is mentoring a project manager who is overseeing a project critical to the organization's strategic goals. The project manager has encountered resistance from a key stakeholder who believes the project's direction might jeopardize their department's interests. Despite written communication, the stakeholder remains concerned.
What should the PMO professional advise the project manager to do?
A PMO professional is establishing a new PMO and needs to determine the optimal team composition to effectively deliver the planned PMO services. The PMO professional needs to consider both the number of team members required and the necessary skills and competencies to ensure successful PMO operation.
What should the PMO professional focus on to achieve this goal?
The PMO has decided to expand its services by including project prioritization and status reporting to better visualize project execution.
Which action should the PMO professional take next?
The PMO at a large company operating in a highly regulated industry is responsible for defining the project management processes for the company.
Which action should the PMO Professional take to ensure that the processes are adhered to?
A PMO offers a service for managing projects. One of the PMO customers always demands that a specific project manager is assigned to their projects. However, it is not always possible to accommodate such requests, which causes dissatisfaction.
What should the PMO professional do to improve the delivery of this service?
Due to a recent organizational transformation, the PMO has been excluded from strategic meetings and discussions. Although still responsible for program and project performance reporting, business representatives are now bypassing the PMO and directly approaching project managers for specific performance updates.
What actions should the PMO professional take to ensure the PMO remains valued by the organization?
An organization is going through a transformation process that will impact its processes and employee job descriptions. The PMO professional needs to ensure continuous improvement of the organization's PMO in these turbulent times.
What should the PMO professional do in this situation?
A PMO professional uses a project portfolio performance dashboard designed using PMO standard metrics. The PMO professional discovers that the lab team is using its own metrics. The lab team's project manager explains that the PMO standard metrics are not meaningful to their team.
How should the PMO professional ensure that the PMO standard metrics are captured, while allowing flexibility for the lab team?
A PMO professional is acting as the PMO leader temporarily in a well-established and mature PMO unit. In this role, a PMO professional receives an escalation from the portfolio manager that a new business stakeholder's activity is overlapping with key portfolio management functions.
What should the PMO professional do to resolve this issue?
The board of directors wants to oversee the company's strategic portfolio of capital projects. The PMO will support the portfolio management.
What should the PMO professional do to ensure that the portfolio's alignment to strategy meets the executives' expectations?
A PMO professional has been tasked with evolving the PMO's value proposition in a rapidly changing, capital-intensive industry that has been strongly impacted by new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) regulations. The organization's strategy emphasizes flexibility and innovation, but the PMO must also ensure compliance with these evolving requirements.
What should the PMO professional do when developing a PMO value proposition?
A PMO currently serves all investment initiatives within a company and has reached a high level of maturity. The executive leadership team is enthusiastic about PMO value, and all PMO customers promote its services. The PMO professional who leads the PMO has received information that the innovation portfolio struggles with its initiatives.
What should the PMO professional do first to support the innovation portfolio?
A newly hired PMO professional works within the PMO and supports a large enterprise program. This professional is expected to guide junior PMO team members but faces difficulties with team management and collaboration.
How should the PMO leader best support the PMO professional in overcoming these challenges?
A PMO professional is tasked with ensuring the organization's competency framework stays relevant to evolving industry trends and internal strategic needs. Which approach should the PMO professional take to achieve this?
A food industry company recently acquired a new company. To ensure a quick integration, several project managers are assigned to combine the product portfolios. The PMO for the integration program was informed by the project managers that they encountered a regulatory compliance change regarding several products manufactured by the acquired company. This is having a significant impact on the ongoing product portfolio integration.
Which actions should the PMO professional take to support the quick adaptation to these changes in the future?
A PMO professional is overseeing multiple customer care projects within a mid-sized company. The project sponsors, the chief of operations and the chief of customer success, have demanding schedules and are often occupied with other responsibilities.
How should the PMO professional ensure effective communication with these key stakeholders?
The organization's PMO intends to transform its role into an agility-driven PMO.
Which option should the PMO leader take to help the PMO become more agile?
Two years ago, a software company implemented an agile culture and adopted Scrum as a framework for product development. During those 2 years, the company's senior management struggled with the link between the product value generated and the business objectives.
What should the PMO professional do to bridge this gap?
A newly appointed PMO professional has been tasked with developing an organizational project management (OPM) competency framework to improve project management across the organization. The goal is to ensure alignment with both industry standards and specific organizational needs.
What should the PMO professional do first?
The PMO established an online community for sharing best practices 2 years ago. The community has grown over time and the PMO is considering increasing the services provided to include some in-person events based on customer feedback. The content for the events has been fully designed with special attention to new trends in the market and concrete applications within the performing organization.
What should the PMO lead do to onboard this new service?
A PMO professional observes that there is a lack of alignment among project priorities and the organizational strategic goals. What should the PMO professional do first?
Three years ago, a large manufacturing company established a PMO to enhance project outcomes across departments. An experienced PMO professional has now been hired as a consultant to assess the PMO's maturity.
What should the PMO professional recommend to help improve the PMO's maturity?
Historically, an organization's PMO has been considered as a department that employs project managers, with its role linked to managing only internal projects. With a change in PMO leadership, the new PMO manager decides to elevate the role of the PMO and make it a strategic partner.
Which actions should the PMO manager take to achieve this goal?
After identifying the needs and expectations of PMO customers, the PMO professional recommends introducing a new service to effectively meet these needs within the specified timeframe. However, new regulations were recently introduced, and the company must comply with them before launching the new PMO service, which will affect the timeline for its implementation.
What should the PMO professional do?
A PMO professional is responsible for a team of project managers who lead projects for the business departments. A business manager has mentioned to the PMO professional that one of the project managers assigned to them is very set in their ways, which is causing friction among the project team members.
How should the PMO professional respond to this feedback?
A PMO professional receives feedback from project managers indicating that they are not able to secure the necessary project delivery teams in a timely manner.
How should the PMO professional address this issue to improve resource management across projects?