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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 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?
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 PMO at an expanding healthcare organization has been tasked with enhancing the organization's project management practices to achieve higher efficiency and better outcomes. To achieve this, the first step is to perform a gap analysis to evaluate the current state of project management maturity. This analysis will help PMO understand the existing capabilities, identify gaps compared to industry standards, and highlight areas needing improvement. Based on the results, the aim is to create a targeted improvement plan to elevate the organization's project management maturity level.
What is the primary purpose of conducting a gap analysis in the context of evaluating and progressing organizational project management capability?
A bank's PMO is responsible for project management governance and for supporting project managers across the organization. The bank is revising its strategic plan to respond to competitors' changes. The revised plan will affect the PMO governance structure and most of the bank's projects. The PMO professional has been tasked with preparing the organization for the strategic changes.
What should the PMO professional do?
An organization delivers system implementation projects to external clients. The PMO has noticed that recent post-project reviews consistently reveal issues. Further analysis shows that these issues become apparent during end-user testing. The testing process is unstructured and usually lacks documentation.
What next steps should the PMO lead take?
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 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?
A new PMO has been started in a medium-sized retail company that has several concurrently running strategic projects. A team of project managers with no PMO experience has been assigned to the new PMO.
Which two actions should the PMO professional take to help the project managers prepare for their roles? (Choose 2)
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?
In recent months, a company was contracted to deliver several projects requiring specialist technical resources. Several clients have begun to complain about the limited availability of the specialist technical resources, which will impact their project timelines.
What should the PMO professional do to help solve the problem?
A newly appointed PMO professional for a startup specializing in mobile analytics has been tasked with establishing a PMO to streamline project management processes and ensure successful delivery.
Which step should the PMO professional prioritize to gain approval from the CEO to sponsor the initiative?
A PMO team member with limited experience as a project manager was hired 2 years ago. The PMO team member has been identified as being talented in their role. Currently, the PMO team member is playing a key role in a strategic program and is facing challenges in specific areas such as leadership and stress management.
What steps should the PMO professional take to develop the competencies of the PMO team member?
In a low-project-maturity organization, the new CEO cannot realize the effective value the PMO brings to the organization.
How should the PMO professional respond to this issue?
A newly appointed PMO professional received a mandate for setting up a PMO in an organization operating in the energy sector, with a main objective of improving project delivery.
What should the PMO professional do first?
A PMO professional notices that the project managers are not adhering to the established project management guidelines within the organization. What actions should the PMO professional take to address this issue effectively?
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?
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?
A PMO professional has been tasked with assessing and improving the competencies of the PMO team to better support the wide range of services the PMO provides. For example, the competencies required for a portfolio management service may differ significantly from those needed for training and mentoring services.
What steps should the PMO leader take to ensure the PMO team's competencies align with the diverse services provided?
A PMO software tool was introduced 6 months ago to give PMO customers a comprehensive portfolio overview. The PMO professional recently received feedback indicating that customers are having difficulty navigating the tool and locating the necessary dashboards.
What should the PMO professional have done to prevent this issue?
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?
A company decided to expand its PMO services to include strategic alignment and to participate in strategic planning. The company tasked a PMO professional with developing a framework to ensure the new services are properly planned, implemented, and governed.
Which action should the PMO professional take to develop the requested framework?
A multinational company seeks to establish and maintain strong governance for its PMO to ensure efficient service delivery, accountability, and alignment with organizational goals.
What is the most critical action the PMO professional should take when establishing PMO governance to ensure the PMO operates effectively?
A newly established PMO has been given an opportunity to give a presentation to the executive committee of a natural flavors company. The new PMO is striving to shape its service offerings to support the research and development (R&D) department of the company.
What should the PMO leader do to gain executive support?
A PMO professional at a software company is in charge of ensuring effective use of methodology and integration between projects, monitoring progress, and identifying any deviations from the defined objectives.
Which responsibility describes the role of the PMO professional in this scenario?
In a global financial services company, the PMO recently implemented the "Provide Methodologies and Tools" service to ensure project teams use standardized approaches and tools for project management.
What key performance indicators (KPIs) should the PMO professional create to measure the performance of this specific service? (Choose 2)
A construction company is undertaking a large-scale infrastructure project to build a new highway network connecting major cities. The project involves multiple phases, including planning, design, construction, and maintenance. A PMO professional has been tasked with supporting the project manager to ensure the successful completion of the project.
What should the PMO professional do to help the project manager overcome the challenges with this project?
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?
A pharmaceutical company operates an enterprise PMO (EPMO) that provides different types of services to several different PMO customers. The PMO leader wants to ensure that the service offerings of the EPMO are catering to the needs of its diverse PMO customers and delivering maximum value.
What should the PMO lead do?
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 team member who joined the PMO 5 years ago as a junior PMO analyst recently received feedback from customers indicating a lack of initiative in handling daily tasks, leading to a low perception of the PMO's value.
What should the PMO professional leading the PMO do to resolve this issue?
During the planning phase for establishing a PMO, the PMO team encounters resistance from project managers who are concerned about potential bureaucracy and additional workload. The PMO professional recognizes the importance of stakeholder buy-in for successful PMO implementation.
What should the PMO professional do to address these concerns?
A junior team member is assigned to a project that uses a unique, in-house methodology. What should the PMO professional do to ensure the junior team member is productive within the shortest possible time?
An enterprise organization recently initiated a new project. A PMO professional made sure that all pertinent project documentation was prepared and that all project management procedures were carried out in accordance with the accepted practices.
What source should the PMO professional use to identify stakeholders?
A PMO professional is asked to propose a way to optimize project resource utilization in a newly acquired business unit.
Which action should the PMO professional take to accomplish this task?
A PMO was recently established to support the organization's new strategy following a global restructuring process.
Which two actions should the PMO leader take to effectively identify the expectations of PMO customers? (Choose 2)