Of PMOs, VMOs, and XMOs: Why So Many Management Offices?

by Stephen J. Andriole

Everyone wants new management offices. It seems that a preferred response to management problems of many kinds is to create a new office responsible for something fairly specific. The ones that come immediately to mind are project management offices (PMOs), process management offices (PMOs again -- causing, of course, some confusion among the acronym crowd), and vendor management offices (VMOs). What are these offices, and who are these people? And why are there so many of them?

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Of PMOs, VMOs, and XMOs: Why So Many Management Offices?Thu Dec 01 16:45:03 CST 2005