Project Management Office Overview

Is it a project? 
View this link to see a simple set of guidelines for determining if a piece of work should be considered a project.

PMO Services and Project Management Process Flows
The Project Management Office (PMO) offers support to the Office of Information Services (OIS) project managers in all the project management process areas, nine project management knowledge areas, and with product implementation. Our process flows are designed to give individuals a high level overview of the project management process areas, the key individuals involved in the process, and the major deliverables from each process.

PMO Project Management Processes and Guides
The PMO has developed project management (PM) processes and guides in the areas of Advanced Planning Document (APD) Process, Contract Process related to OIS, and our overarching PM Process. These are available to assist first time and experienced staff in applying project management knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities.

Process Tools & Techniques
View these links to find the specific tools and techniques referenced from the process guide's 
Pre Initiating, Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing processes.

Project Templates
View the Templates page to gain access to templates for the Pre Initating, Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing processes.

Project Training Courses and Materials
View these links to learn about course schedules and materials.  Initiating (MS PowerPoint), Estimating (MS PowerPoint ), Planning (MS PowerPoint), and WBS (MS PowerPoint).

References
Links to Project management related sites in the areas of Project Management Organizations, Quality Management, Risk Management, Human Resources, Measurement/Metrics, Software Engineering, Best Practices, Research and Related, Training and Resources, Tools, Services, Personal Web Sites, COTS, Open Source

Standard library
This reference gives instructions and illustrations for setting up an electronic and hardcopy project filing structure. It also includes the recommended naming conventions for documents stored in the standard structure.

Terms and Glossary
Common project management related terminology and definitions.

User Help and Contacts

We're reaching out to the global project management community to gain input on our project management approach and methodology to support and enable successful Department of Human Services project managers. 

In support of this effort, we're encouraging customers to send feedback on ways we can improve.