Project/Program Management
Project management is a discipline of scientific and artistic best practices that insure accountability and most importantly achieve results. The organization that provides the structure of the discipline and keeps the science pure is the Project Management Institute – an International organization that is extremely proactive in continuous improvement and protecting the PMP (Project Management Professional) credential - a highly respected credential in all industry sectors. Amelia W. Wright is a certified PMP. Although Ms. Wright has led successful project teams comprised of over 300 individuals, diverse skill sets, multiple vendors and significant challenges, she feels her greatest value is providing education to corporate leaders on the benefits of Project Management. “They need to understand the basics so that they can promote and practice their key roles of sponsors and owners. They are the ones ultimately accountable for the project’s success so they need to hold themselves equally responsible.”
Benefits of Embracing & Practicing Project management tenets at the C-Level
- You portray that you are embracing tried and true concepts to hold yourselves and the team accountable to accomplish tasks, goals.
- You show leadership in that you want accomplishments and failures to be visible.
- You can improve on the failures by having enough factual information to show where things went wrong. Continual improvement philosophy.
- You provide analytical, pro-active roles for new team members and establish new career paths for the company.
- You recognize, acknowledge that it takes special skills that are focused and dedicated resources to get large initiatives successfully accomplished. Its not just “part of an existing” job.
- You establish credibility within the corporation when the chief/executive branch of management accepts the roles and responsibilities that are the classic sponsor roles. Critical decision making, financial and organizational resource prioritization and allocation and the ultimate in issue resolution.
- You have a consistent means of measuring progress, identifying and resolving issues – prioritizing new projects that become apparent to achieve goals.
- You can communicate results, issues and next steps clearly and concisely to all facets of the organization, community, shareholders, partners and board members.
- You have a means to quantify the investment and the associated return.
- You can lead the way on successful initiatives with vendors, partners and business leaders because you can offer the project management leadership and facilitation.
Service Specifics
- Project management review of complex, large projects – detailed review of existing project and its progress “to date” – sharing of lessons learned, making recommendations for improvement to insure success
- Establish Project management office basics – including Information Steering Committee roles, responsibilities and associated processes and an Iterative Project Initiation Process
- Assessment of “in-flight” or upcoming major initiatives – “pre-emptive strike” risk-mitigation planning
- C-Level Project Management – what you can do to improve the company – speaker series
Value
- Successful PMP having personally led major, complex projects for fortune 500 companies which required heavy education and involvement from the Executive branches of the organizations.
- Understands conflict, change and performance management that all arise when you present, enforce, and practice formal project management tenets – can help C-level teams understand the magnitude of the undertaking and the risk of failure. Will help prepare all for the journey and manage expectations and fall-out.
- Deployed numerous successful Project management office processes – do not need to “reinvent” the wheel. Helps the organization filter through standard best practices and customize what is appropriate for their company culture to embrace.
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