Project Management
Methodologies
PPMP20009
Week 7 LectureCore Enabling ProcessesStrategic Alignment
• Enables organisations
to align portfolios with
strategy through
informed project
selection
Find the strategic plan for the
organisation related to your assignment
case study.
How does your project align with the
strategic objectives of the organisation?2012 Qld State Election
A brave world
• New ideas, new
structure, new mandate,
new processes…
• Information Services
DoC - Early adopter
• Portfolio composition
adjustedImplementing Organisational PMImplementing Organisational
PM Outputs
• PM Methodology
• Portfolio view
• Changes to (or new) polices and procedures
• Project document templates
• Project roles and responsibilities
• KPI visibility
• Updated organisational change management,
communications, and training plans
Foundational Organisational PMActivities useful in developing an
organisation PM
• Establish definition of project management & a
project
• Cataloguing process to list all projects
• Determine set of PM processes appropriate for
each type of project
• Describe process with consistent documentation
format
• Define tailoring process – flexibility and
scalability
• Establish reporting modelsGovernance
• Enables:
– Consistent management of projects
– Maximisation of value
– Effective decision making
• By establishing:
– Clear agreements
– KPIs to monitor performance
– Regular performance reviews,
• And ensuring alignment to strategyCompetency Management
• Facilitates the timely & appropriate assessment of
skills and development of the experience to
implement P3
• Conducted with Human Resource Management
• Tailored to organisation
• By:
– Short and long term competency planning
– Ensuring everyone understands roles and responsibilities
– Everyone has the required knowledge/skills and
opportunity to expand
– Mechanisms for continuous improvementReview
portfolio
Assess
necessary
skills
Gap
Analysis
Intervention
strategies
Review
impactCompetency Management Activities
• Competency model
• Career development framework
• Training curriculum
• Experiential learning
• Infrastructure of knowledge sharing
• Assess alignment with Organisational skill
needs
• Benchmark against other organisations“By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to
fail.”
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790Validate the ObjectivesWhat are some problems that might
arise when developing project
objectives?3 Column Analysis
Current State How to get there Future State
Processes
Organisation
Technology
InformationThe 4th and 5th Columns
RISKS ASSUMPTIONSChange Agility
The ability to cope effectively with the discomfort of
rapid change
“If you don’t like change,
you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.”
General Eric Shinseki,
Chief of Staff, U. S. ArmyChange Management
What?
•A planned and structured
approach to transitioning to a
desired future state.
•Who are we transitioning?
– Individuals,
– teams, and
– organisations
Why?
Improves…
•Likelihood of success
•Return on investmentElement Goal or Objective
“The Change” To improve the organisation in some fashion – for
instance reducing costs, improving revenues, solving
problems, seizing opportunities, aligning work and
strategy, streamlining information flow within the
organisation.
Project Management To develop a set of specific plans and actions to achieve
‘the change’ given time, cost and scope constraints and
to utilise resources effectively (managing the ‘technical’
side of the change)
Change Management To apply a systematic approach to helping the
individuals impacted by ‘the change’ to be successful by
building support, addressing resistance and developing
the required knowledge and ability to implement the
change (managing the ‘people side of the change).
Tim Creasy, Prosci ResearchWhat’s out there?
• A number of models and frameworks
–Lewin – Freezing anology
–Kotter - 8 steps
–Prosci - ADKAR
–How to manage Change (APMG)
–CMBoK (CMI)Are you change agile
What makes a person
change agile?
How do you rate?
What can you do this week to
increase your change agility?Maintain balance in your life
Create and pursue goals
Focus on productivity
Make informed decisions
Work outside your comfort zone
Keep things simple
Focus on continuous improvement
Learn from mistakesWhat are principles, themes and
processes of Prince2?Prince2
Principles
1 Continued business justification
2 Learning lessons
3 Roles and responsibilities
4 Managing by stages
5 Managing by exception
6 Product focused
7 Tailored to suitPrince2
Themes
1 Business Case
2 Organisation
3 Quality
4 Plans
5 Risk
6 Change
7 ProgressPrince2
Processes
1 Starting up a project
2 Directing a project
3 Initiating a project
4 Managing a stage boundary
5 Controlling a stage
6 Managing product delivery
7 Closing a projectCollect Portfolio Reflect
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