Our mission is to help our clients create the environment in which they can manage change programmes and projects successfully, by providing training and "support in the workplace" to ensure that theory becomes embedded practice.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AND MATURITY
PROCESS MANAGEMENT & RE-ENGINEERING
BUSINESS EXCELLENCE, IMPROVEMENT, QUALITY MANAGEMENT
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How mature is your Project Management Environment? If you need to know how well your organisation is doing in implementing good practice in project management then you may be looking for:
Additionally, you may want to find out more about the Project Excellence Model, based on the EFQM Business Excellence Model. |
HEALTH-CHECKS
- The Quality Projects’ Project Management Health-check enables you to get an overall indication of the state of
project management in your organisation. It comprises three questionnaires, each based on a different stakeholder perspective. Click here to download a copy
- If you are particularly interested to check on the correct use of PRINCE2™ in your projects then you may find Appendix D of the PRINCE2™ manual, Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2™, helpful. It comprises a comprehensive set of questions under 13 main headings from which an audit checklist can be constructed to suit to your local needs.
MATURITY MODELS
OGC’s Project Management Maturity Model (PMMM) and the PRINCE2™ Maturity Model (P2MM) are derived from the original Capability Maturity Model, CMM® http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/.
An integral part of the CMM® is the assessment process that gives an objective measure of what level an organisation has achieved PLUS a clear focus for improvement necessary to achieve the next level. The underlying thesis of the CMM® is as follows:
Even in undisciplined organisations some individual software projects produce excellent results. When such projects succeed, it is generally through the heroic efforts of a dedicated team, rather than through repeating the proven methods of an organisation with a mature software process.
In the absence of an organisation-wide software process, repeating results depends entirely on having the same individuals available for the next project. Success that rests solely on the availability of specific individuals provides no basis for long-term productivity and quality improvement throughout an organisation. Continuous improvement can occur only through focused and sustained effort towards building a process infrastructure of effective software engineering and management practices.
This model proved so successful and useful in the IT industry that it has been used as the basis for many other maturity models.
The basic idea behind the CMM® and its derivatives is shown in simplistic form in the following diagram, expressed in terms of project management maturity.
Please contact us if you would like to know more about either PMMM or P2MM and how to apply these models.
PROJECT EXCELLENCE MODEL
Development of the Project Excellence Model is an initiative of the Project and Programme Excellence Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Association for Project Management (APM). The principle objective of this SIG is to improve UK PLC
- By promoting excellence in projects and programmes
- Through refining and developing the Project Excellence Model for self assessment and external assessment
- By adapting the model to suite specific public and private sectors
- And through associated methodologies to identify improvements and implement change
The basis of the Project Excellence Model is the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model, which since the late 1980’s has been the yardstick used to assess applications for the business excellence awards nationally and internationally. The Excellence Model is used extensively in both private and public sector to improve the processes and the achievements of business and government activity. More on the Excellence model
In 1997 the German Project Management Association (GPM) developed the Project Excellence Model on the basis of the EFQM model and used it as an evaluation tool to judge the annual German Project Management Awards. Since 2002 the model has been used as the evaluation tool to judge the International Project Management Awards of the International Project Management Association.
Please contact us if you would like to know more about the work of the Project and Programme Excellence SIG.
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