Is Process Improvement considered a project ?

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Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dear colleagues

Process Improvement is a part of many management consulting firms.

As this service fulfills the definition of PM:
- Temporary as it has a beginning & end date.
- Delivers a unique product

Is it considered a project ?

Posted: Sep 18, 2017 4:09 AM

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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

My experience with continuous improvement is that continuous means no end date.

When you start something that is meant to go on forever, we call it an initiative. We treat the implementation part of the initiative as a project, then we switch into operations mode.

Posted: Sep 20, 2017 12:34 AM

Tony Yang PM Leader| a manufacturing company Zhongshan, China, Mainland

Hi Adnan : yes indeed. improving the quality , cost or process. it could be a project.

Posted: Sep 20, 2017 3:46 AM

Stephanie Graham VP of Strategy| BankOnIT Oklahoma City, Ok, United States

I included some process improvement projects in my PMP application and they were accepted there. As long as it meets the definition of a project and isn't a continuous, it totally counts.

Posted: Sep 20, 2017 7:43 PM

Sadasivam Paramasivam Life Science - Project Management & Delivery Lead| Agilisium Consulting Bangalore, Karnataka, India

In order to implement process improvement, certain tasks need to be completed. If those are temporary and not continuous then it can be considered as project.

Example:
Six Sigma Projects used for process improvement but these are executed as individual projects.

Posted: Sep 21, 2017 5:35 AM

Adnan Shareef EPMO Director| JEDCO (Jeddah Airports Company) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Thank you gentlemen for your feedback

Posted: Sep 25, 2017 2:53 AM

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