How to Set-up the Project Office

The most comprehensive course for starting-up the Project Office


Jules Julien
This workshop, customized to fit the requirements of individual projects, helps project managers to set-up a project support office to oversee one project, or multiple projects. It is intended for organizations that need to rapidly deliver projects to meet business objectives. It is also intended for project managers who have experience managing their own projects and who now must oversee a group of projects.

The output of this workshop is a project management system for the project office, with active project files, customized to meet the unique needs of the project. Participation in this workshop also provides 1 year online access to the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit.



In conjunction with use of the SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit, participation in the workshop helps to ensure that the project office is implemented in a manner that satisfies the needs and requirements of the sponsor and stakeholders, the project managers, and the project teams.

Take this workshop if you are...
  • Ready to build the team needed to start-up and mobilize the project
  • Prepared to create project management plans for areas like communications, change, risk, finance, and procurement
  • About to get people together to manage the project and get it operational
  • Working to secure funding and resources needed to start-up the project and get it mobilized




You will learn… 
  • How to hold a project mobilization meeting and engage key project team members
  • When to commit staff and other resources to achieve mobilization and staffing objectives
  • How to get agreement on project plans to use and priorities for development
  • What it takes to modify project plan templates and shape them-up for use
  • How to enable key operational processes for the project and motivating project team members to use them
  • When and how to implement regular and predictable progress measures and reporting
  • About handling project deliverables and work products
  • How to run a Project mobilization workshop

The workshop outline… 
  • The Project Office...
  • What is it?
  • Why is it used?
  • Structure and scope
  • PM system
  • Benefits
  • When is it used?
  • How is  it run?

This workshop contains…
  • The Project Office Guide
  • An Example Project Office Plan 
  • The Project Management Toolkit*
  • Project Management Guidebook
  • Project Management Model
  • 18 Basic Project Templates
  • 26 Standard Project Templates
  • Example, Samples and Artifacts




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