Creating the Culture: Integrating Project Management Into Your Organization

  Governance   PM Network  

Is project management an integral part of your organization’s DNA, occupying a prominent role along with other organizational pillars such as operations, quality and sales management?

If not, consider convincing your executive team that becoming projectized helps to secure an organization’s survival and increases its future prosperity.

How, then, to go about that process? Here are some do’s and don’ts of a projectization program:

Do:

• Take a helicopter view of the scenario. Does it make sense to create a projectized culture now? If not, what preparations are lacking? What are the organization’s SWOTs (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats)? What is the level of project management maturity? How can those factors lay the groundwork for planning?
• Find a high-level champion. An executive sponsor for a projectization program greatly boosts the chance of success. Identify and cultivate a likely candidate by spotlighting the benefits for the organization and for the champion him- or herself. Then involve that individual in the program’s strategies.
• Make change “behave.” Structured change management is required for projectizing an organization. Change has to be harnessed and directed through a program that focuses on the four components of projectization: governance, processes, competency and …

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