by John Schlichter
After half a decade of development PMI's OPM3 is finally here,and it is the next big thing for achieving organizational strategies through projects,the team-based vehicles for delivering change. It is just as important as (yet more strategic than) the PMI's Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the world's de facto standard in project management from the world's largest professional organization dedicated to project management.
Developed by hundreds of practitioners in industry and government over the past five years, the OPM3 is a standard that explains excellent business practices emphasizing two things:
1. Choosing the right projects to execute organizational strategies, and
2. Implementing the processes, structures, and behaviors necessary to deliver
projects successfully, consistently, and predictably.
This discipline is called Organizational Project Management or OPM. The OPM3 standard describes excellence in these two areas in terms of roadmaps from lesser to more advanced capabilities that can be assessed. Through an assessment using this standard, an organization's current profile or level of maturity is identified, as well as the next steps toward becoming more capable.
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Other papers on PMI's OPM3 published in the PM World Today by John Schlichter