How PMOs & Project Managers are driving real value using Jira: Roles, responsibilities, and uses 🚀

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What do a traffic controller and a driver have in common? In project management, everything. The PMO sets the direction; the Project Manager takes the wheel. Both rely on Jira to steer toward success, but in very different ways.

That's why it's important to establish the responsibilities from each of these roles, and how each of them can get the most out of Jira to manage their projects in a very fast way:

What’s the role of a Project Manager Office (PMO)?

The PMO is crucial, given that it standardizes and improves practices. Channeling, overseeing, and supporting all project-related activities within an organization.

Among those responsibilities, we can count establishing standards and methodologies, providing guidance and support, being responsible for Resource Management, Project Portfolio Management, monitoring and controlling projects, risk and Issue management, knowledge Management, ensuring strategic alignment, and improving project management maturity.

E.g., they can use Jira's reporting and analytics capabilities for projects at the task level with ready-to-use reports at the task level, accessible for all Jira projects.

In that sense, and to get a specific project portfolio overview of the necessary information by getting a layer of visibility at the project level from the minute it's installed with Projectrak:

What’s the role of a Project Manager, then?

They are directly responsible for planning, executing, and closing a specific project to achieve its defined goals and objectives. 

Among these key functions, we can count project initiation and planning, team leadership and management, project execution and progress monitoring, stakeholder management, risk and issues management, budget management, schedule management, quality assurance, communication and reporting, and more.

E.g., they can use Jira for task management & tracking by using  Jira's Scrum Board (dark mode)

Another example, and by using Projectrak, Project Managers can get a dedicated space within Jira for the project to view and manage key project-level information. Getting a quick summary of the project's health, status, and critical data points without having to piece it together from various issues:

Whether you're leading a single project or managing dozens, learn how to align strategy with execution, using the tools you already have, by reading the full blog here.