Organizational Agility

It is hard to just get projects done, let alone worry about whether the business believes they will get the results they need. So the cycle continues; business distrust of IT and poor communication between senior leadership and the project office.

There is a ground breaking effort to target business management leaders with project management information of specific interest to them. A book is being pulled together on Organizational Project Management (OPM) that aims to create knowledge about the interfaces among projects, programs and portfolios, how projects benefit the ongoing operations in organizations and how strategic objectives are attained through projects.

What’s your opinion; does the industry need this book?

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PMI is shutting down all SIGS and colleges and replacing them with virtual communities. They are also adding some, one of which is the Organizational PRoject Management VCP.

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We the PMs/DPMs of standards development got together at the Sofitel in Philly. Lots of PMi folks were there too, Greg Balistreros, MArk Langley, (PMI big shots), (more…)

For those of you brave enough (Foolish enough?) to volunteer to write questions for this exam, I got some very good answers from Nancy Wilkinson, about what we are trying to do with the entrance exam. Here (more…)

PMI held an OPM3 info session on Saturday, October 18, in Denver, and this time actually had some DATES for achievement of OPM3 marketing goals. Although, they seemed too far away for me. At least they had dates this time! IT was clear from the Focus Group held in Phildelphia, Sep. 15 2008, that users are very upset with the lack of movement by PMI to promote OPM3 in the market place. (A draft summary of the focus group findings is circulating now for acceptance by the focus group attendees - today is November 10, Hmmmmm.

The PMI conducted OPM3 users Forum was held Sunday, October 19 in Denver. Attendance was not as high as registrations showed. (I checked other sessions and found the same thing. I guess a lot of companies decided to save some money and cancel attendance, due to the world wide financial melt down.) (more…)