2. Responsible for defining the methods to be deployed within projects

When setting up a Project Management Office within an organization, the PMO Method has two pillars at its disposal to define the associated methods and implementation procedures:

• French and international standards and best practices ;

• past experience, if he or she already has PMO experience in previous positions.

These two pillars, which are essential when the service is launched, will quickly find their limits when a Project Management Office is set up, and will come up against the practicalities of projects. Standards and best practices can outline the main principles of project management, but their necessarily generalist nature does not fully take into account the structural differences between projects, depending on their environment. For example, an aeronautics project...