Project management office – typology and benefits

This paper formulates a research approach based on the experience of practitioners with more than fifteen years of project management (PM) experience. The author explores the created assumptions of a project management office (PMO), which underlie this research, and provides a research literature review of specific PM research originating from this perspective. The author concludes by summarizing the findings of expert interviews and providing questions into the way ahead of future research. In this way, attention is refocused on PMO learned lessons, context-dependent judgment, situational ethics and reflexivity which enables PM stakeholders to see how the relations function in the context of PMO typology and benefits.