Establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO) for product development in a regulated environment
Brief description
Introduction and use of a Project Management Office (PMO) for the planning and control of project activities in individual software development.
Supplement
The areas of responsibility include, in particular, the monitoring of consistent and complete data for scope planning in the HP Application Lifecycle Management Tool, release documentation according to customer requirements in the SAP customer system, and the planning and execution of cross-product estimation meetings taking into account established standards. Other tasks include supporting project managers in capacity, scope and budget planning, coordinating and organizing hotfix requests and implementing them according to customer standards, as well as organizing and carrying out sprint reviews and know-how transfers during and after the development phases.
Subject description
The PMO's main tasks are the coordination of new orders with project management, coordination with internal controlling with regard to order situation, planning and actual data of the various projects as well as the establishment of project controlling on the basis of weekly status reports, budget control and team monitoring (from the time recording system, TFS, HP ALM, project database). The creation of project reports with defined key figures for the customer as well as offers on the basis of the pre-negotiated scope and personnel administration with the introduction of new colleagues in the sub-projects enable faster familiarisation and a more productive employment of new colleagues in the project, costs are saved and resources are better used.