Maturing Project Management with the Use of a Methodology

Recognizing the need for and benefits of a tailored methodology helps an organization instill discipline and consistency in the ways in which project managers manage change delivery. This article explains the benefits of implementing a customized methodology, the factors that affect the ways in which it undertakes these changes, components of a project management methodology, the stages of its implementation, and a few points for avoiding pitfalls.

OPM: Getting from 'Here' to 'There'

The key challenge to organizational PM is that companies tend to view projects in isolation by ignoring the obvious (and sometimes not-so-obvious) linkages. Here we present a list of essential factors to ensure the organization can begin to not just benefit from the discipline of project management, but be able to maximize the benefits that organizational PM can provide.

OPM: Turn It Up to 11

Organizations are expected to deliver more and more with less and less, and that has in part led to the growth of organizational project management. But in this writer's experience, organizations have not been able to define what a successful OPM model looks like. How do you maximize the return on Organizational PM?

Why Equally Mature Companies Can Have Unequal Capabilities

What is maturity? Can an organization be considered mature if it does the wrong things well? What if it does the right things in the wrong way? The OPM3 business standard helps organizations become more mature. But misperceptions still exist about what “maturity” means. This issue is not explained in the standard itself and has never been written about by anyone, so what better place to do so than here and now?

OPM for Business

You may have brilliant marketing and branding methodologies, but it is through the projects you pick, how you deliver them and the strategies you use to deploy them that you are defined.

What is Organizational Project Management?

How can OPM help my organization?

Is my organization ready for OPM?