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Chapter 12, “The Project Office,” in your Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence textbook.

• What Is a PMO? [11 min].
• How to Successfully Lead a PMO [59 min].

A PMO plays a major role in propagating the project management culture in any organization. For this discussion, assume you are tasked with establishing a PMO in an organization. 

Please respond substantively to the following (3–4 paragraphs): 

• What are the key characteristics of a successful PMO?
• Would you hire an experienced project manager or an external consulting company to establish the PMO? 
  • Be sure to provide your rationale.

Be sure to provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards. 

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Please respond substantively to at least one other post (1–2 paragraphs). Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses. 

If possible, choose a post that had a different idea than you did about who to hire to establish the PMO. Consider questions such as these in your response to your classmate: 

• What key characteristics of a successful PMO did your classmate include that you didn’t consider?
• What points did your classmate make about hiring an experienced project manager or an external consulting company that you find especially persuasive?
• What are some challenges your classmate might face with his/her chosen course of action?
• What resource would you recommend to your classmate to deepen his/her knowledge of and skills in establishing a PMO?