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Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference West
June 2–7, 2013 | Las Vegas, NV
OPM: Turn It Up to 11
Andy Jordan PMP is the founder and president of Roffensian Consulting. Andy is a seasoned business professional with experience in many industries on two continents. After a career managing high profile, business critical projects for many organisations Andy moved into leadership of project management offices and built a reputation for building, rescuing and improving this key function. His approach of tailoring processes to the style and ability of the organisation, and focusing on the development of project staff rather than the short sighted approach of meeting project deliverables at all costs has repeatedly shown dramatic results.
I have written way too many articles for gantthead without a reference to Spinal Tap, so I thought I would put it right this time by looking at how we turn OPM up to 11. Organizations are expected to deliver more and more with less and less, and that has in part led to the growth of organizational project management. However, in my experience organizations have not been able to define what a successful OPM model looks like--things may have improved from before, but where does that score on a scale of one to 10? Are we turned up to the max? Are we getting as much as we can out of these amplifiers? Sorry, I mean this process? If we are at 10 already, then let’s go in search of 11 because that’s one better, right?
(For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, go rent This Is Spinal Tap. I’m sure it’s available on VHS…they still have that, don’t they?)
The basics
Let’s start with the basics of organizational project management. It’s designed to bring together the disciplines of portfolio management, program management and project management. These disciplines are clearly related, but in many organizations they are not treated as a connected sequence of processes; rather, they are treated as different specialties with their own unique owners, accountabilities, etc.
That really doesn’t make a lot of…
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