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Standards and Stands
A Gartner research director’s critique of the Project Management Institute’s recently released portfolio and program management standards engages practitioners, vendors and consultants.
Project portfolio management may not yet enjoy strong name recognition among the wider public, but its advocates are a passionate — and connected — group. That level of engagement was on display recently when a critique of two new Project Management Institute standards by Gartner research director Mike Hanford hit the Web.
At issue: PMI's new Standard for Portfolio Management and Standard for Program Management — Hanford argues they lacked the detailed direction needed for a company looking to incorporate project portfolio management or program management.
But he saved his right hook for the program management standards: "PMI's second edition of its program management standard demonstrates an overall poor understanding of this complex discipline. It also provides practices that — at best — are disappointing and largely composed of reused project-centric contents and approaches."
The story, first reported in SearchCIO.com, quickly spread to the blogosphere, where Hanford's directness was greeted with interest, even a touch of ‘right on.'
Terry Doerscher, chief process …
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