Research Article

Prioritizing Multi-Interwoven Factors in the Project Management Office Using Delphi and Fuzzy DEMATEL

Table 3

General PMO functions identified through the opinions of different researchers.

No.FunctionReference

1Preparing the project charterDe Nadae and De Carvalho [37]; Viglioni et al. [38]
2Facilitating the management of initial meetingsXiaoyi Dai and Wells [39]; Sandhu et al. [40]
3Management project risksOliveira et al. [41]; Gonzalez et al. [42]
4Participating in forming the project control officeRaharjo et al. [4]; Ozguler and Yilmaz [43]
5Participating in managing project changesBredillet et al. [44]; Parchami and Koosha [13]
6Supporting the establishment of a project libraryLavoie et al. [45]; Szalay et al. [46]
7Improving the precision and accuracy of work hour registration cardsOzdemir and Gozlu [47]; Julian [48]
8Participating in project revision meetingsDuarte et al. [6]; Pemsel and Wiewior [49]
9Participating in managing project problemsLacruz and Cunha [50]; Monteiro et al. [32]
10Participating in project completionMoura and Cunha [12]; Desouza and Evaristo [51]
11Project planningAubry et al. [52]; Petrovich et al. [53]
12Project recoveryAbdi and Kaddoura [54]; Arbabi et al. [14]
13Standardization of reportsWedekind and Philbin [55]; Amer and Elayoty [56]
14Preparing patternsHamad and Fayoumi [57]; Karayaz and Gungor [5]
15Supporting the project management toolsLiu and Yetton [58]; Kutsch et al. [59]
16Determining standards and criteriaLinde and Steyn [8]; Barbalho et al. [60]
17Determining an excellence level for the portfolio management systemFernandes et al. [9]; Barbalho et al. [10]
18Determining the roles in portfolio managementArtto et al. [61]; Hobbs et al. [62]
19Determining the combination of project portfoliosRicher et al. [2]; Widforss and Rosqvist [11]
20Optimizing the project portfoliosPaton and Andrew [63]
21Managing the relationships with customers and suppliersMisner [64]
22Managing the knowledge of projectsSilvius [3]
23Governing the projectsFernandes et al. [65]
24Determining the organizations and structures of projectsUnger et al. [66]
25Managing the resourcesBredillet et al. [1]
26Planning and auditing the projectsBredillet et al. [1]
27Consultation and trainingBredillet et al. [1]