A Model for Implementing Project Management Office (PMO) in Military Research Organizations (Case Study: One of the military research organizations)

Many organizations and companies are looking for solutions to create regular and formal processes for project management that leads to higher discipline in conducting current projects in terms of time, budget, and quality level. Task description and various goals can be expected based on the needs and characteristics of an organizations, from setup to the project management office deployment. The most important expectation from the project management office is to create regular and integrated processes for project management in the form of a unified project management structure. Accordingly, the present study, using the previous research, aims to identify and explain the dimensions that guide organizations in using project management offices. The identified dimensions are presented as the requirements for the implementation of the project management office project model. In this research, the importance and necessity of the project management office was firstly stated and after expressing theoretical and conceptual models of the project management office, the project management office structure was described. The conceptual model of the research was presented and the elements of the conceptual model was identified. The Likert-scale questionnaire was composed using library and online studies, and was confirmed by the organization experts. To analyze the data, a military research organizations was selected as the case study. Using SPSS software, first the assumption of normal variables was tested using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and then using the t-student’s test, the status of each of the components of the project management office was evaluated. The approved components of the project management office presented in three main components of planning (project portfolio), delivery (plan and project) and the center of excellence in the form of 17 sub-components.