Our organisation needs to measure Project Management activities across all current, live projects within an IT/IS environment. Whilst we appreciate the need to educate our project managers on recording time correctly (i.e. PM activities against the actual implementation activities), we do not have a starting point. Can anyone point me in the right direction and are there any websites that would suggest the percentage of time project managers should be spending on PM activities during the lifecycle of a project?
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Greg PoirierSenior Business Consultant| Ministry of Health ServicesVictoria, British Columbia, Canada
Look at this as a percentage of the total project. The Oracle PJM suggests that the project manager will spend, as a percentage of the entire project, 10% on small projects and up to 25% on large. Saving Changes...
Hi, We use to put on the initial proposal the traditional 15% for project management. But we quickly figure out after the facts (more than 100 projects analyzed) that the level of effort can range from 10% to as higher as 50% of total effort. We analyzed each situation and came to a conclusion that many factors can influence this level of effort. The projects were done for external customer and in some cases this external context put a heavier workload on the project manager. But in other cases the project manager experience and skills can also have an influence on the effort (for example his ability to bring the customer on board and have him respect the project management processes (scope, quality, approval cycle etc). Based on this analysis we set few action items in order to keep as much as possible the project management efficiency. The actions range from education for the PM to better communication of the game plan for the customer. Saving Changes...
