In Celebration of Project Management

Andy Jordan is President of Roffensian Consulting S.A., a Roatan, Honduras-based management consulting firm with a comprehensive project management practice. Andy always appreciates feedback and discussion on the issues raised in his articles and can be reached at [email protected]. Andy's new book Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is now available.

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As I write this, I am sitting in Phoenix waiting for my plane to fly home from the final ProjectManagement.com “Building the Hybrid PMO” workshop of the year. It’s been a great year and has really reinforced for me the importance of a well-managed, well-mandated PMO for successful organizations.

During a break in the workshop, I also recorded a five-minute video on “Why people should care about project management” that will be available later in the year, and that got me thinking about just how critical project management itself is to successful organizations.

I fundamentally knew these things of course, just as you all do; but sometimes we need to remind ourselves. That’s what I want to do in this article--to celebrate the 2015 International Project Management (IPM) Day, I want to just recognize some of the great things project management is doing. No tough love, no recommendations for making things better, just a celebration of one of the greatest disciplines I could ever imagine being a part of.

The enabler of organizational growth
Fundamentally, organizations do two things--they execute on the “stuff” that is their core business, and they try to improve that stuff. Execution is the domain of sales, marketing, product management, customer service, etc., but the improvement piece is projects. Whenever an organization …

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