Fig. 01 · Glossary
Project Management Office (PMO)
Also known as PMO, Program Management Office
Definition
A Project Management Office coordinates project governance, status reporting, standards, dependencies, risks, and delivery cadence. A PMO can improve execution, but in post-merger integration it is not a substitute for an Integration Management Office with value-capture authority.
PMOs fail when they become reporting offices without decision authority. They can show that a project is late without having the mandate to remove the blocker.
In integration work, the distinction matters. A PMO tracks projects; an IMO owns value capture and operating decisions across workstreams.
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