The experience shows that successful implementation of methods for project management goes beyond simply enable project managers to work. For the organizations success, processes, technology, policies and project, program and portfolio management standards are needed, and they must be aligned with other management systems in order to have them working in synergy.

Macrosolutions’ worldwide experience in project, programs and portfolios management will support your organization to diagnose the current situation in managing your projects and plan the growth of capabilities to better execute them.

Key issues addressed

  1. Lack of comparative parameters to compare the projects executed by other organizations and by the market
  2. Low capacity perception of the effectiveness of the existing processes
  3. Low success rate in meeting the deadlines

Scope of work

  • Current situation diagnosis using structured methods (OPM3/P3M3)
  • Current competencies mapping
  • Projects Management Office’s (PMO) Processes mapping
  • Interviews with stakeholders
  • Preparation of the proposals for improvements aimed the maturity increase

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Standards
Areas
  • Supported standards and methodologies

    Project Management Institute (PMI)
    PMBOK Guide
    PMI Practice Standard for Estimating
    PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management
    PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management
    PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management
    PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure
    PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling
    PMI Standard for Portfolio Management
    PMI Standard for Program Management
    PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework Yes
    Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) Yes
    UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
    PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments)
    MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)
    M_O_R (Management of Risks)
    P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model) Yes
    P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)
    MoP (Management of Portfolios)
    MoV (Management of Value)
    Scrum Alliance
    Scrum Methodology
    International Project Management Association (IPMA)
    ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline Yes
  • Areas: approach comprehensiveness

    Area Comprehensiveness Description
    Integration ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.
    Scope ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
    Time ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project.
    Cost ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.
    Quality ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
    Human Resource ★★★★ Includes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project.
    Communications ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information.
    Risk ★★★★ Systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks. It includes maximizing the probability and consequences of positive events and minimizing the probability and consequences of adverse events to project objectives.
    Procurement ★★★★ Includes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization to attain project scope.
    EHS Optional Involves processes related to work safety, health and environment, including specific regulations.
    Strategic Planning Optional Involves the processes which link projects with corporate strategy through the indicators of the Balanced Scorecard's goals.

Additional Information Top ↑

The project management offices have many characteristics that determine its strategic role within each unit of the organization depending on its area of expertise and the reached level of maturity. Its main contribution is the maximization of the project results to the general welfare and success of the corporation ensuring their goals.

"Understanding the current maturity and planning progressive improvements on project work means to directly increase the projects’ success rate and profitability." - Ricardo Vargas

But if the companies plan and execute the projects very badly, this clearly will result in waste of money, time, materials and people. So the next question would be: What is the contribution that the best management practices can bring?

The Price Waterhouse Coopers conducted a study widely recognized and very revealing called "Boosting Business Performance through Program and Project Management". This study concluded that 90% of the successful projects have a project manager trained on the best practices in the project management and 46% of the successful projects have created a methodology considering the specific characteristics of the organization.