Does anyone have a model or formula that would help with sizing corporate projects? What do you currently use at your organization to determine if a project is large, med or small? Risk? $$? Hours? Saving Changes...
Frank, We, Verdandi, treat "initiatives" as jobs, projects, or programmes. The criteria are several but size and complexity are suitable general terms. For example, if there is one "supplier" and one "customer" (of the initiative, there is little need for project management outside the supplier. If there are several "suppliers", then the interactions (dependencies and others) between the suppliers means that someone (the Project manager) must ensure that plans are made ata level of detail that ensures that these interactions can be successfully managed. If the initiative is such that it is best, and can only be, delivered as a set of jobs and projects, then there needs to be "master" or "contol" project ensuring that each job and project delivers successfully - hence programme. Three examples: If your car needs servicing, all you (the customer) have to agree with the garage (the suppler)is start and end time and date. The garage (this is England!) may well have a detailed work plan for itself but that ain't a project plan - so we'll call this a job. If your house is getting extended, then you'll need an architect, a quantity surveyor, various regulatory agencies, material suppliers, bricklayers, plasterers, decorators, plumbers, electricians and so on to do well specified work at the right time - you'll need a project plan and it's only a question of who writes and manages it. If you're building a new shopping centre then you need all the building stuff (one or more projects), all the marketing stuff (one or more projects), and all the admin/legal stuff (one or more projects) - hence programme. Saving Changes...
Brian -- Thanks for the detail. Makes sense to me, but your distinctions are a bit different from distinctions purely on size. My question was really aimed at eliciting a bit more clarity from Kent about his question.
(By the way, we have garages on the left side of the Atlantic as well.)
