PMP aspirant should know about PMO

A an aspiring candidate preparing for PMP exam, it become mandate for a PMP aspirant to know full detail on PMO the project management office. Upon completing PMP once you take charge of the project as project manager the first and most important organizational entity that you need to interact with would be PMO. So, what is a project management office? What do they do? PMO is the authority within organization that standardizes the project related governance, supports project by haring of project related resources. Project related resources can be: 1) Project templates 2) Project management software 3) Project history Project Management Office and its importance in an organization: PMO as it is popularly called is the project management office the manages projects. PMO is the central authority that manages projects in an organization.The head of PMO usually given the name of program manager, PMO director as it is variously called in many different organizations manages a group of interrelated projects. PMO manager can be innovative to make sure that the analysis, findings, results of one project can be optimally used for the benefit of other projects in queue.