Project Management

Emory's Office of Information Technology (OIT) Project Management Office (PMO) is here to deliver value to the Emory Enterprise by enabling our faculty, staff, and students to deliver project outcomes. The PMO includes full-time project managers who are responsible for managing projects and programs for enterprise-class information technologies, information security, networking infrastructure in construction projects for new and renovated buildings, digital scholarship initiatives, and central technology services in the libraries. These projects are temporary efforts, with definite beginnings and ends, which create a unique product, service, or process. The PMO’s methodology is based on the PMI™ framework and Project Managers guide projects through the complete project management life cycle. This includes repeatable and documented processes to ensure the delivery of value to our customers. By coupling a consistent methodology with flexibility based on project requirements, the PMO works with project stakeholders allocating resources from across the enterprise to deliver projects and high-quality products and services on time, within budget, and according to their defined scope.

Key Features and Benefits

Using PMI's standards for portfolio and program management, the PMO facilitates Emory University's IT Governance process, ensuring business cases are properly researched and presented, then approved for priority-based release
After project delivery, the PMO reviews project outcomes and how projects met the objectives of the initial business case
The PMO's processes include tools, templates, and guidance to enable a consistent and repeatable approach to project success
The PMO provides mentoring and guidance by project managers to the community about project management best practices in action and approaches to resolve actual project issues and strategies
Share project items with the entire Emory enterprise as well as a number of universities and non-profit organizations throughout North America. For access to these documents, please email the OIT PMO
Our Certified Project Managers provide project management training aligning PMI's processes with the Emory environment through Emory's Learning Services http://www.learningservices.emory.edu/
Facilitate Emory's Project Management Community of Practice. This group of full- and part-time practitioners meets monthly to consider management techniques and tools, study for process and software certifications, and collaborate to solve related problems and concerns
Offers Project Management templates and guidance to help project practitioners in the community apply best practices to their initiatives. For access, please email the OIT PMO
Continual service improvement practices to improve project management processes and improve project success. All project managers attend continuing education to keep current in their field as well as survey stakeholders and implement lessons learned to incorporate improvements in the PMO processes