Research Of Multi-project Priority Evaluation From The Perspective Of Organizational Project Management Office

In the 20th century, near the early 90’s, Project Management Office (PMO) emerged. With the rapid development of economic globalization, corporate project management operation needs a way to do unified management. And multi-project management has gradually become an unavoidable PM road for all the companies. Project Management Office is set up in such a background and becomes an integrated project-oriented application sector to achieve multi-project management (such as program management and portfolio management). Project Management Office (PMO) ensures the consistency between the multi-project aims and corporate strategic goals from the corporate organizational forms, allowing companies to optimize the resource allocation and coordinate the relationships among multi-projects and functional departments, thus accomplishing the goals of corporate multi-project management objectives more effectively.This paper discusses the action of organizational PMO in the multi-project selection stage to do multi-project prioritization. First, the paper analyzes and summarizes the literatures on the application of PMO and multi-project prioritization; then, it outlines the main function and organizational structure of PMO; afterwards, it goes deep into multi-project priority evaluation research from the perspective of organizational PMO, such as the design of the priority evaluation process, evaluation indicator system based on the balanced score card, the establishment of the evaluation mathematical model based on a kind of the mixed weight calculation and TOPSIS; finally, it validates the practical significance of multi-project priority evaluation from the perspective of organizational PMO (oPMO) through the practical case studies.