PMO Evaluations

by Ronald N. Goulden, MBA, PMP

Overview

Many times in their haste to implement a Project Management Office, the business leaders have a tendency to fail in placing adequate constraints on the PMO management, resulting in the implementation and enforcement of burdensome paperwork requirements.

Typically, any PMO evaluation is based on the standard Project Management Metrics; Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Schedule Performance Index (SPI). As such, a form of Earned Value Management (EVM) is employed as part of the overall performance calculations. These can be called the Project Performance Macro Factors.

However, these Micro Factors have every bit as much of an impact on project and PMO performance as the more common Macro Factors.

When the aggregate Macro Factors are combined with the aggregate Micro Factors, patterns can be identified that help provide a forecast of PMO performance, based on historical activity and cultural proclivities.

Therefore, it is incumbent upon the PMO Leader to ensure that ALL levels of the Business are aware of what the PMO is doing and how it is adding value to the Business. The PMO Leader must advertise successes and mitigate failures while continually growing and perfecting its delivery processes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153014029
Publisher:	Ronald N. Goulden, MBA, PMP
Publication date:	05/09/2016
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	648 KB

About the Author

Ronald Goulden has written novels and stories for thirty years. Having served in Viet Nam as a Translator/Interpreter, He quickly adapts to new cultures and sees a story or an adventure everywhere. He has ‘dabbled’ in witchcraft, though he is not a witch.

All of his novels and stories have interconnecting threads that link them into a larger universe, spanning space and time. Some of the links are obvious, while others are very subtle.

Some of the events in the stories are based on real life, while others are pure fiction. The distinction between fact and fiction is up to the reader.

Having studied witchcraft many years earlier, it had always been in my mind. When I became an IT Director for the Farm Credit bank system in Wichita, I observed the ‘power’ a small group of ladies expressed over others in the bank and their general disdain for many of the men.

I had also researched the BTK Killer during his spree and developed a program that allowed me to ‘predict’ his next attacks. As such, I saw the potential for violence in anyone.

After being treated rather rudely by the band of bank beauties, I decided to write a story to explain their odd and overbearing personalities. Using newspaper stories and personal experiences, I settled on baby sacrifices and Satanism.

While the personalities and physical attributes are based upon real people I knew at the time, their involvement is this story is purely fiction. There are many ‘links’ in this story to the other novels I’ve written over time, essentially building an alternate universe.