Fight for the CAUSE
Communicate
- The real power of a corporate vision is realized only when everyone in the organization clearly understands the vision and recognizes how everyone contributes to its success.
- The PMO plays a key role in connecting the dots and communicating key headlines throughout the organization so there is a global understanding of, and commitment to, the successful delivery of the business plan.
- Business Plan Communications: Provide employees with a line of sight from the company's brand, mission, values, goals and performance to their day-to-day work.
- Portfolio Reporting: Informs organizations about the progress of priority project activities.
- Project Status Reports: A simple, standard way of consistently communicating project activities and allows project managers the opportunity to alert stakeholders to issues impending project success.
- Executive Reporting: The most valuable service the EPMO can offer any organization.
Advocate
- Project Management Office (PMO): Promoter, Campaigner, and upholder of project management practice across the organization
- Senior Executives: Proponents, Backers, and Spokespersons
- Project Managers: Evangelists-always proselytizing for the success of the project
Understand
- Everyone must comprehend the relationship between project management activities to realizing business achievement.
- Creating leveled understanding requires thoughtful consideration of key stakeholder needs and recognition of their roles within a project-centric environment.
- Establish and maintain an educational plan by recognizing the points of pain for each player and creating a program that sets out to address each pain or need.
Systemize
- Organizations work efficiently through repeatable, predictable practices; standardized practices allow you to learn from past experiences in a simple, predictive way.
- Design a common project management approach that ensures alignment with overall business success, prioritizes projects to meet strategic goals, and focuses resources on business priorities.
- Take a multi-dimensional approach to designing a common project management method: include project management principles, pre-established processes, a common set of tools and techniques, and directionally support training.
Effect
- Valuable business processes do not need to be complex to be effective.
- The best way to assess the effect of project management on your organization is by monitoring key performance metrics, especially those influenced by project activities.
- Staff who participate on project teams that identify best practices will take those practices with them when they return to their respective business units.