Support and Consulting for Specific Projects Management

Standards

Areas

• Supported standards and methodologies

  Project Management Institute (PMI)
  PMBOK Guide	Yes
  PMI Practice Standard for Estimating	Yes
  PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management	Optional
  PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management	Yes
  PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management	Yes
  PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure	Yes
  PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling	Yes
  PMI Standard for Portfolio Management	—
  PMI Standard for Program Management	—
  PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework	Yes
  Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®)	—

  UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
  PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments)	Yes
  MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)	—
  M_O_R (Management of Risks)	Yes
  P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model)	—
  P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)	—
  MoP (Management of Portfolios)	—
  MoV (Management of Value)	—

  Scrum Alliance
  Scrum Methodology	Yes

  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	Optional	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	Optional	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		Involves the processes which link projects with corporate strategy through the indicators of the Balanced Scorecard's goals.

Additional Information Top ↑

In the last 30 years the world has faced an incredible dynamism in the intra-and intercompany relationship. Companies are now being recognized for its flexibility, professionalism and ability to serve its customers. With flexible work teams, resources and efforts focused on the organizations’ needs and projects planning based, the successful organizations have realized that the use of the project management concepts is universal. They now break all cultural, national, regional barriers, in which the competitive survival needs are also universal.

Project management is a set of management tools that allows the company to develop a range of skills, including knowledge and individual capacities, designated to the control of non-repetitive, unique and complex events, in a time, cost and quality predetermined scenarios.

To better understand what project management means, it is important to clearly know what a project is.

Project is a non-recurring enterprise, characterized by a clear and logical sequence of events, with a beginning, middle and end phase, which is intended to achieve a clear and well defined goal, being driven by people within a predefined time, costs and involved resources parameters.

In this context, it can be concluded that the project is a set of actions, executed in a coordinated manner by a temporary organization, to which the necessary inputs are allocated in a given period, in order to reach the determined goal. The concept of transitional organization is directly related to a particular and temporary organizational structure that only exists to make the project work more efficient and intuitive by the organization.

The projects reach all levels of the organization. They may involve a small amount of people or thousands. They can take less than a day or several years to be completed executed. The projects often extend beyond organizational boundaries, reaching the suppliers, customers, partners and government, being part, in most cases, of the company's business strategy

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