A Closer Look: Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Rome Italy

  PM Network  

With 11 companies, 40 branches and 6,300 employees, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica has a lot of projects going on. Looking to bring order to a chaotic project environment, executives at the IT behemoth wanted to institute a standard methodology inspired by PMI standards to be used for every project across the organization.

Back in 2006, Engineering had initiated a project to tackle inconsistencies and inefficiencies with a revamp of the organization’s project management training program. Giuseppina Copetti, PMP, the company’s head of project management training, worked with Maria Cristina Barbero, PMP, head of the IT strategy business unit for Nexen Business Consultants, part of the Engineering group of companies.

Despite the training, an early 2009 review revealed little progress had been made. The company’s 200 Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential holders were still not following a standardized project management methodology.

“Without having the chance to apply project management best practices to projects in the real world, the project management training courses were not enough to improve quality. Project managers, on returning to their projects, would progressively fall back into their previous habits,” Ms. Barbero says. “It was time for some kind of project management office.”

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