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TAREQ ZEYAD AWAD MOHAMMED

AL AMERI

Department of Business Administration

College of Business and Economics

Title

The Roles of the Project Management Office in the Execution of the Organization’s Strategic Plan

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Maqsood Sandhu

Defense Date

14 April 2016

Abstract

Many organisations in both public and private sectors are striving to discover new tools and strategies to streamline

their project implementation. Among these was the project management office (PMO), which has been developed

from the pool of the advanced project management methodology. This work is both exploratory and causal study,

which concentrates on investigating the effectiveness of 7 proposed PMO roles (as independent variables) in carrying

out the strategic plan (as the dependent variable) of the public sector organisations in the UAE. The study aims also

to derive some insights into coordinating pattern established between PMO unit and other departments involved in

the project implementation within the context of the organization’s strategic plan. A Likert-based questionnaire sent

to 19 project-based public organizations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai Emirates. 268 participants responded with perfect

and usable questionnaires. The survey data quantitatively analysed to reveal that 95% of the targeted organizations

established their own PMO units. The study identified 12 top metric criteria to measure the effectiveness of the PMO

unit. This study gives some implications for those involved in the PMO applications, and recommendations to further

research studies.

Dissertation

Feb 12, 2017
Dec 13, 2017
Nov 20, 2022