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Vol. XI Issue XII - December 2009
Project Management eJournal

 

PM ADVISORY:

The PMO Continuum!

By Mounir Ajam
Dubai, UAE

Only five or six years ago, the three letters PMO were unheard of in the Middle East or only a few have heard those letters in the context of project management. Nowadays, it is quite common to see these three letters emerge in regional organizations and many professionals have those three letters in their signature or on their business cards. In this regard, these three letters abbreviation “PMO” has become well recognized and even popular in the region but the question remains: what do these three letters mean?

What does the abbreviations PMO stands for?

There is no agreement in the industry on one common agreed-to definition of what these three letters mean. Most often, they are used to possibly mean:

  • Project Management Office; in this paper we will use PjMO to refer to this definition

  • Program Management Office; in this paper we will use PgMO

  • Portfolio Management Office; similarly, we will use PtMO

In addition to the above, we also hear the term used to mean Project Management Officer, or Project Management Organization, among other terms. However, these situations are rare and are not discussed in this paper.


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Mounir Ajam

About the Author

Mounir Ajam, PMP

Author

Dubai
Mounir A. Ajam, MS, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). He is also chief executive officer of SUKAD FZ-LLC (www.sukad.com), an Innovation Centre based in Dubai Knowledge Village and with services provided across the Middle East. Mr. Ajam is a PM expert with 21 years of experience in the engineering, construction, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries, and on both large and small projects in various locations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, UK and USA. Mr. Ajam has an MS in Engineering & Construction Management from the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and a BS (honors) in Civil Engineering from the University of Houston (USA). He received his PMP® certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1998 and graduated from PMI’s Leadership Institute Masters Class in 2007. In addition to his professional expertise, Mr. Ajam is a volunteer leader and his volunteer role includes: currently he is the founding Chairman of the Board for the Global Project and Process Management Association (www.gppma.org) and is on PMI® 2008 EMEA Global Congress Project Action Team. He is a past director for the PMI-Arabian Gulf Chapter and a past member of PMI® Registered Education Provider program Advisory Group. Additional information about Mr. Ajam can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5. Mounir lives in Dubai and can be contacted at mounir.ajam@sukad.com.

 


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