How to Help Your Human Resources Team Promote PM Maturity

Robert (Bob) Bulger is the 2016 recipient of the Kerzner Award for Excellence in Project Management. He is currently writing in areas focusing on improving organizational success through innovative approaches to benefits realization, stakeholder engagement, and benefit mapping. His latest areas of interest embrace how agility factors into organizational project management and strategy.

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Effective partnerships with your human resources team can lend incredible support in your drive to increase maturity within the PMO and with your program and project managers. The Project Management Institute offers a wide assortment of research, tools, and programs that—when working collaboratively with the HR team—you can help to integrate into your organization. Many of the tools, frameworks and research are free with PMI membership.

Recruiting, Salaries, & Skill Development: Inside PMI's Career Central
PMI offers recruiting tools in the form of the Project Management Job Board. It allows project managers (and project team members) looking for jobs to post their CV or resume. The board also offers employers the ability to post opportunities for prospective practitioners.

One of PMI's gems in the human resource arena is its annual Project Management Salary Survey. Currently in its ninth edition, the Salary Survey offers both PMO and HR professionals guidelines to help justify salary expectations for existing or potential personnel. The 2015 Salary Survey is a summary compiled from over 26,000 project management professionals residing in 34 different countries. The Salary Survey is also helpful in helping organizations understand how to structure project management career paths, a step noted for its necessity in improving overall project …

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