Opinions and experiences based upon our own implementation, others may have different results.
Fact
No money for ProductSuite solution & certification, need to create own solution
Outsider looking in. Overall financial/operations background. Liked OPM because business integration.
Unaware of any personal limitations, did not know what OPM3 experts knew, so didn’t know where experts did not go and became pleasantly surprised with what I learned.
Single OPM3 license to develop in-house solution, able to offer this tools & service to member agencies
Fiction
Implementation with temporary & ultimate delay thus creating new vision.
OPM3 is assessment tool and don’t need it to implement organizational project management.
Over 12 years as healthcare executive profit/loss responsibility and 10 years IT project management at Fortune e-50. Newbie to public sector
Given the task to create an OPM solution so proceeded fwd unknowing what was ahead
Broke down OPM3 into simplest parts
Decide what parts are critical
Create idea on what solution should look like
Start to work
Many good Project Mgmt Maturity Models based upon institutional paradigms…
PMI
Gartner
UMT Consulting Group
Imagine the advantages of having an organizational specific, aka,
– DIFFERENTIATED- PM maturity model that is consistently applied over long term.
Many large institutional firms are chock-full of overall PM Knowledge…but…
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”. Einstein
OPM3 is a framework, it is a tool… not a panacea.
Customization created some key insights that Im going to share with you.
This is what was done in Tx. No sales propaganda, provided free with OPM3 knowledge foundation purchase.
Understand Organizational Project Management
Business operations impacts
Project capability delivery
Project & Business result metrics
Customize assessment & improvements
By virtue of doing this you gain intimate knowledge of OPM3 specifically
Create improvement plan & metrics
Applicable to your organizations
Online tool & electronic database
Control
Efficient
Costs differential
Training & marketing
Gain knowledge on organizational project mgmt…ask business operational questions
You already know project management concepts but need to learn what drives the business.
Project capabilities delivered to business translates into business success
Remember 70’s Lt. Columbo technique…use your less threatening demeanor to uncover business details
Learn to talk the talk and walk the walk as business manager
Organizational Project Mgmt Virtual Community of Practice
Global reach
Business & operational minded
Sr. Level PM’s
Various OPM models
VCP is PMI’s most critical initiative this year, because it will – and already is transforming our organization. To support VCP while it’s projectized and once it’s fully operational, 14 business sub teams were formed to redefine their processes to include support of virtual communities. Departments within PMI already have processes in place to support virtual communities. Volunteer leaders like myself have to transform and shift our focus from association management to knowledge strategy.
VCP is about support; PMI is alleviating volunteer leaders’ burden of managing administration and operations to enable us with delivering knowledge and content that will drive member value.
VCP will fuse community, knowledge and technology and the member’s experience will be consistent across all communities resulting in normalized member value.
Need single license to move fwd practice and learn OPM3
Able to perform multiple assessments in same organization for free
Practice using Online assessment. Learned structure of Capabilities & Improvement Directories
Understand your service delivery and Business
Prior to meeting with our CIO, we knew pain points and able to answer rapid fire OPM3 questions
CIO was not able to focus on formal presentation but went straight to “what’s in it for me”?
In creating business plan had to consider cost/benefits, used internal project methods.
Strategic & tactical executive pain points
Interviewed our IT folks on possibility of enterprise vs non-enterprise database
I did not consider an exit or conversion strategy…if environment changes what are you going to do and what we did?
We were able to use MS Access and I would be administering the database
I or our admin would issue login ID and survey number after group orientations
They would have 30 days to complete online assessment
They would select PM, SME, Analyst, IRM
They could anonymously request overall results, we had separate database that would not identify staff email address
Local administration allows you to warehouse your own results vs PMI warehouse
Control security and confidentiality of your problem areas by maintaining own warehouse
You control when and what Best Practices you wish to integrate with new releases of OPM3. May not want Program, Portfolio in your assessments
Improvement paths not disrupted with new releases of OPM3
Able to use single OPM3 license to create database that is shared across the same organization
Create reports that better suited for your organization.
I would schedule follow-up interviews to validate trends or responses
Examples of simplifying language
HHSC immature organizational project management maturity
HHSC not ready for Program & Portfolio Domains (Best Practices & improvements)
Before trying to simplify I discovered simple patterns exists
Standardize Measure Control Improve patterns exists
Once you have understanding of the SMCI patterns that exists, you can move fwd to simplifying the content to suit your organization
Best Practice 2880 and respective Capabilities
Hide Capabilities & Improvements compatible with environment risk tolerance appetite.
Simplifying and customizing requires the greatest amount resources, consider scaling this work to fit your budget parameters, timeliness and strategic/tactical improvement initiatives.
Jamie Northrup commented genius on my simplifying SAM and I thought I was just being lazy and didn’t want to do a lot of extra work.
Ernie could only work on OPM3 25% of the time but had help of 2 admins on creating database of questions
Development costs were not costly enterprise solution.
No need for OPM3 consultant as I had to learn it myself.
As I was internal agency staff, I had first hand knowledge of operations vs outside consultant.
Managerial staff attends group orientation and performs own assessments on their time availability
Project team staff attends group orientation and performs own assessment on their time availability
I perform analysis, trends and irregularities to prepare recommendations on results
Convene Management team to review results and confirm improvement areas and decision to move fwd
Convene Project Team members to review results and confirm improvement areas and decision to move fwd
Enterprise PMO: to work with Mgmt and Project teams to create acceptable Improvement plan and prepare business plan for client’s use
Proposed time line for servicing multiple agencies. Preferred to have go/no go decisions before getting too deep into 2nd agency.
Some OPM3 1st Ed. Capabilities & improvement paths may have changed or become obsolete with OPM3 2nd Ed. Updates
Tx State Legislature mandates consistent implementation of project management methodology, oppty for member agencies to assess their effectiveness with PMI standard
OPM3 Product Suite staff have license to use the OPM3 tools, however, if this person leaves, ability to use your organization’s data also leaves.
Our OPM3 project was shelved and was able to leverage OPM knowledge in other areas