Before we discuss the various types of PMO, we need to clarify what we mean by project, programme and portfolio management, since these terms are used quite specifically below. Project management. The organisation of resources and activities to deliver a predefined scope of work, within agreed timescales and costs, using existing capabilities to achieve the benefits that justified the project. Programme management. The organisation of resources and activities to define and deliver an evolving collection of related projects and activities that, in combination, achieve agreed objectives and emergent organisational benefits, including new.
