Do you think it makes sense to combine 2 departments together a) Project Management b) IT Governance (incl. SOX Audits, Budget, IT Processes, IT Key Users)
In fact I got such proposal from my company to become a department lead for both above areas, and for myself I feel I am very good fit for a) and still good fit for point b) from my company point of view, however, I personally enjoy much more a) than b) which probably is quite natural
my company is mid size ~250 employees
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I worked from years inside different structures but mainly I was hired to help organizations to decide and implement this type of things. This type of things depends on strategic reasons to defined the functions/process and where they will be located because both are determined by the enterprise architecture (which is the basement of the strategy). Just to take my actual work place we have an special division called Strategy, Process and Transformation (SP&T) which is in charge of IT Strategy, IT Portfolio Management, IT PMO, IT Service Mangement, IT Assesst Management, IT Vendor Management. When I talked about enteprise architecture I am talking about bussiness, application, technology layers in the simple model. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Lukasz,
congrats for the job offer. Find out what the reasoning behind this combination of tasks is. Ask management, the PMs, the operational staff. Listen to your sponsor.
I would start with this setup (write a charter) and try to be supportive to the people, where they need it most. As such, priorities will change and new functions will be added (like portfolio management, ITIL, ..).
The good thing is for you it opens the door to decision making functions (and politics), if you like this or not, you have to take your stand to be respected and further the department and your career.
In an organization that size, I would often see one group for both of those functions, but often 2 or more parts of the group with specific focus. Process management can often fall under project management, but in general, the PM side of the group is dedicated to longer duration processes, with the other sub-teams are matrixed to multiple projects are activities, and their duration of support on each activity is shorter duration. Saving Changes...
