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(Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)

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provided assurance to high-level government bodies. It also provided oversight role for the 4 main programme objectives.Knowledge Train is an AgilePM Accredited Training Organization.Its key role was to act as a ‘critical eye’ by providing scrutiny, reviewing and reporting of performance, monitoring and measuring progress against programme delivery plans, and proactively challenging risks, issues and changes across the programme. It used common standards for reporting performance to government and management dashboards for the governance bodies. The PMO reported to the Programme’s Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) and was empowered to challenge at the highest levels. It was mainly concerned with putting in the right framework, rather than imposing rigid standards.Knowledge Train is a PRINCE2 Agile Accredited Training Organization.The secretariat and office administration, finance and strategic communications functions were provided through separate but linked teams. This allowed the PMO

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WHAT YOU WILL GETSee all datesPMO roles and responsibilitiesThe following are the project-level PMO roles

and responsibilities., monitoring and delivery;

Support the

project manager when closing projects;

Ensure there are no overlaps with other projects which are part of the same programme;Identify dependencies between projects;

Provide an ongoing health check of projects by reassuring whether they will continue to meet their objectives;Report progress to the project manager and project board using management dashboards;

Informing projects when strategy changes;Be responsible for the continual improvement of the PMO;Manage the PMO staff.Project specialistThe purpose is to provide hands-on specialist support to the project manager(s).

The role provides consultancy to the project board(s) or project manager(s) in the form of advice and guidance or facilitated workshops. Workshops might include start up advice, risk analysis, scoping, planning and tailoring of methods.Planning techniques;

Methods and tools;

Quality assurance;Project organisation structures.

Brief project board and project assurance members on their roles and responsibilities;Provide a fast-track project support service;

Design and support project reporting;Build and maintain a register of approved training courses;

Build and maintain a repository of good project documentation.Project officer/coordinator/administratorThe purpose is to improve the planning and delivery process by collecting and maintaining data in a consistent form.ResponsibilitiesImplement guidelines, procedures and templates to collect and maintain consistent data;

Facilitate the creation and update of

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