OPM3 Design organizational project management capabilities and their corresponding outcomes sequence for developing. – 85%+ want self-assessment & uniform 3rd. Figure 2-1: Elements of the OPM3 Standard: Knowledge, Assessment, Improvement.8. The Standard as a basis for study and self-examination, and to enable an.
This week I am headed down to Orlando for the Project Management Institute’s annual Congress. As I look forward to Florida with its sunny beaches and orange groves, I am also looking forward to discussions at the conference with peers about improving OPM3 and the tools used to implement it. Many people still do not understand the differences between these tools, so I have decided to explain those differences here.
If you were a gardener who wished to grow a Florida orange tree from a seed to maturity, you would probably be pleased if I offered you a water bucket. That’s assuming you interpret the words “water bucket” to mean a bucket of water. Obviously if I were only offering you a bucket that could contain water but didn’t, then you would not have what you needed. Certainly you would have the shape of what you needed, but not the thing itself. At best, you might find this aggravating. At worst, your seedling could die. Either way, it is what’s in the bucket that you need. Obviously we are interested in growing organizations, not oranges. But the metaphor is useful: The OPM3 Standard is to water what OPM3 Online and OPM3 ProductSuite are to water buckets and buckets of water, respectively.
Figure 1: PMI offers two different tools to implement the OPM3 Standard.
The implementation of the …
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