PPMP20009 Project Management Methodologies

Question:

Why would we tailor the way we implement organisational project management?

What constitutes project success?

How would you predict project success?

Provide examples of how an organisation could tailor the implementation of OPM?

What can these groups do to aid project success?

What to do with a best practice?

• Given the definition includes ‘competitive advantage’
– Sharing knowledge internally only
– Hidden from all but a selected few
– Advertise to your customers

Critical Questions

• Who determines that an activity is best practice?
• How do you properly evaluate what you think is best practice to validate that in fact it is a true best practice?
• How do you get executives to recognise that best practices are true value-added activities and should be championed by executive management?

Best Practice Library

• What would be kept in the library?
• Who would use the library?
• How would the library be used?
• Who would play the role of the librarian?

What are lessons learnt? What are some ways to gather lessons learnt?

Answer following Questions to reflect and assist in your Portfolio

· How do organisations employ the best staff? In particular, how does an organisation find the best project manager?

· What skills do you think are needed for a good project manager? Why?

· What happens when an organisation selects the wrong project manager?

· Do you think project managers of today are different from project manager ten years ago? How are they different?

· Are you different in how you do things today as compared to ten years ago?

· Do you ever try to improve your efficiency in how you do things?

· How do you improve? What do you do?