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Project Management

Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – PMBOK, 2008)

Project Management Maturity is the maturity of project management processes measured by the ability of an organisation to successfully initiate, plan, execute and monitor and control individual projects. Project management maturity is limited to individual project execution and doesn’t address key processes, Capabilities or Best Practices at the programme, portfolio organisational level. The focus of project management maturity is doing projects right. (Organisational Project Management Maturity Model – OPM3, 2008)

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Organisational Performance Improvement

PMO, Project & Programme Management Best Practices

Hypothesis; Establishing a Project Management Office [PMO] can Improve Organisational Performance

• Business Processes & Business Practices Management
• Corporate Governance
• Organisational Maturity
• Performance Metrics Management
• Information, Communication Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Organisational Structures
• Portfolio, Programme & Project Management
• Human Resources Management
• Risk Management
• Strategic Alignment & Strategic Management

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Operational Efficiency; Helps improve supply chain performance. (Slack et al, 2007)

Performance Measurement; The activity of measuring and assessing the various aspects of a process or whole operation’s performance. (Slack et al, 2007). Performance measure is a piece of information on which an incentive contract (explicit or implicit) can be based. (Besanko et al, 2010)

Performance criteria; Various standards used to evaluate variances from scope, schedule and cost baselines. (Keys, 2011)

Governance; Governance is the process whereby societies and organisations make decisions, determine who they involve and how they render account. Governance defines who is allowed to make which decisions, what constitutes “due process” for making those decisions and how we ensure this process is followed. (Schmidt T., 2009)

Organisational Governance; The process by which an organisation directs and controls its operational and strategic activities, and by which the organisation responds to the legitimate rights, expectations and desires of its stakeholders. (The Standard for Portfolio Management, 2008)

Team Performance; Performance that is externally focused and concerns meeting the needs and expectations of outsiders such as customers, company colleagues or fans. It is assessed using measures such as quantity, quality and time. (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007)

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Organisational Project Management Maturity

Organisational Maturity; Strong organisational commitment to implement best practices that facilitates the achievement of the organisation’s clearly defined strategic objectives, enable the organisation to deliver the desired strategic outcomes in a predictable, controllable and reliable manner. (Organisational Project Management Maturity Model – OPM3, 2008)

Organisational Project Management Maturity; the degree to which an organisation practices organisational project management. In the organisational project management maturity model (OPM3), this is reflected by the combination of Best Practices achieved within the project, program and portfolio domains. (Organisational Project Management Maturity Model – OPM3, 2008)

Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model [P3M3]; The Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) has become a key standard amongst maturity models, providing a framework with which organisations can assess their current performance and put in place improvement plans. As organisations strive to identify and leverage competitive and performance advantage from improved efficiency and delivery, the importance of management models on which to assess this performance and identify opportunities for improvement has increased. (OGC, 2006)

Organisational Behaviour; The study of the structure, functioning and performance of organisations and the behaviour of groups and individuals within. (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007)

Organisational Culture; The collection of relatively uniform and enduring values, beliefs, customs, traditions, and practices that are shared by an organisation’s members, learned by new recruits and transmitted from one generation of employees to the next. (Huczynski and Buchanan, 2007)

Organisational Governance; The process by which an organisation directs and controls its operational and strategic activities, and by which the organisation responds to the legitimate rights, expectations and desires of its stakeholders. (The Standard for Portfolio Management, 2008)

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See also; Project Management Tools

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See also; Blog – Project Management

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See also; PMO – Project Management Office / Programme Management Office

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