J. Kent Crawford Knihy

An Inside Look at High-Performing PMOs reveals best practices of some of the most successful project management offices in the world--winners and finalists of the PMO of the Year award. The authors show how these high-performing PMOs deal with issues in five practice areas: laying the foundation with project and program management; taking project management to the executive suite by focusing on strategic alignment and portfolio management; using performance measurement to prove the PMO's value; people management and the value of training; and implementing technology and structure to support the PMO's work. The book also provides a summary of The State of the PMO research as well as PMO of the Year Award program details.

Project Management Maturity Model: Providing a Proven Path to Project Management Excellence offers effective strategies for the implementation of efficient project management systems for increased levels of organizational maturity, time and cost conservation, quality assurance, and project success. It details areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight, professional development, risk assessment, and streamlining processes. Summarizing methods to identify, analyze, and control factors affecting project quality and scheduling, Project Management Maturity Model supplies descriptions of the component qualities and characteristics of each layer of the maturity level, techniques to build a culture of project management excellence, an industry-wide benchmarking survey of project management maturity, a logical path to improve organizational processes, tools to measure company progress, a set of priorities for short-term improvement actions, and more.