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Location: Blogs How do projects really save time, cost, and your professional reputation? |
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| Posted by: Rosemary Hossenlopp |
7/26/2009 |
There is a lot of concern in the project management industry. Why? Well, it is no secret that many projects can’t answer this key question very well; what value do you provide the organization?
So, I’m writing about Organizational Project Management. What is that? It is a thought that somehow we should better align project work with the needs of the organization. Compare it to a bridge between project work and operations. Someone needs to be a toll keeper to monitor the traffic that gets to use this bridge.
And, by the way, who is responsible to be a toll keeper on this bridge? There could be a couple of answers:
- Project managers responsible for getting the work done.
-Program managers responsible for coordination among projects
-Portfolio managers responsible for intake of the projects and measurement of the health of the project work.
-Business managers responsible for the project funding decisions
-The organization that has to use project results.
Do you have an example of great projects or great companies that have a clear definition of which of these groups should be the toll keepers for Organizational Project Management?
Oh, and by the way, do you even like the name Organizational Project Management? |
| Copyright ©2009 Rosemary Hossenlopp |
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Re: Who Makes Sure That Projects Add Value? |
By 950400 on
8/10/2009 |
We use a Lean Six Sigma techniques to gather critical project success factors and then rank the projects against those factors.
Business Driven Project Management sounds more aligned with the intent? |
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Re: Who Makes Sure That Projects Add Value? |
By 232567 on
8/10/2009 |
| Great thought - Agreed that critical success factors are necessary. I use a matrix of business drivers vs. the features to see how projects stack up against the critical success factors/business drivers. This is an easy way to create or update a portfolio ranking. |
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