Project Management Center of Excellence : How to set it up ?
Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Hello,
My company plans to launch a Project Management Center of Excellence. Do you have any experience of such an initiative in your organization or best practice / readings to share on this topic ?
saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
Reading on PMO will be good to start with. Saving Changes...
Howard LaiPMP, CEng, CPEng, NER, IntPE(Aust), RPEQ, MIET, CSSBB, CISA, ISO9001 LA| QHBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
Some company tried to launch a Process Excellence Center, which aims to explore solutions on how to create sustainable competitive advantage through process improvement.
This could be a reference for you.
Best Regards,
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Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Thanks for the tip Howard, I am actually looking specifically for a Project Excellence Center as we already have a Process Excellence Center in place.
Best regards
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Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Thank you Saurabh for the PMO reading tip. I am actually leading our Operations PMO while I am more interested to learn how to spread PM best Practices across our entire organization. Saving Changes...
Myles MillerCEO & Founder| Success HQHarrisburg, Pa, United States
having set-up several PMOs in various industries, start with exploring what standards, template and tools will work for your company within its appropriate industry. Find what works best and avoid trying to fits "square pegs in round holes". Saving Changes...
Bala S DuvvuriProject Manager| ShellBangalore, Karnataka, India
I would consider this also as a project in terms of
1.Charter that explains the need and vision,benefits
2.Write the scope statement
3.Defining roles and responsibilities
4.Identify stakeholders and understand the current scenario
5.create a repository of templates,best practices,lessons learned
Thanks
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Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Thank you Myles, that sounds like a wise tip ! Saving Changes...
Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Thank you Bala,
I like the Charter idea to initiate the CoE and creating a project repository is indeed in our plans.
Do you have experience of proven company project maturity assessment model ?
KR
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Prolay ChaudhuryPractice Lead & Lead Solution Architect| Chaudhury, Inc.Bangalore, Karnataka, India
In our organization, we have well defined Global Delivery Process (GDP). The GDP is defined by adopting the best practices from PMP, ITIL, PRICE2, TOGAF, ISO and CMM. At the broad level, we have three practices SAP, Application Management, and Solutions.
Each of these practices has Core Delivery processes and Technical Libraries.
Then you can concentrate on building best practices and standard templates based on Industry Standards, Bodies of Knowledge, Quality Standards, and Maturity Model.
Building of CoE requires great efforts and sound process management SMEs.
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1 reply by Mike Frenette
Oct 13, 2017 2:36 PM
Mike Frenette
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How did it work out, Christian?
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Christian KOCHOperations Project Director| MOLNLYCKE HEALTH CAREVillers L'Eveque, Belgium
Hi Prolay,
Thanks for your guidance, our project model is very much inspired from Prince2.
Do you utilize a specific project maturity model to assess evaluate your organization maturity ?
