Project Management Institute (PMI) has a new community that is launching this Friday; the Organizational Project Management (OPM) Community of Practice (COP.) It is a virtual community of project management professionals that will talk about how to integrate project, program, portfolio management practices with the management infrastructure of an organization.

Project work is important. This blog spends a lot of time talking about how to improve the tools, techniques and disciplines around performing project, program and portfolio work. Staying focused on incrementally improving project management domain disciplines is needed to improve consistently and predictably delivering project results. The only problem is that many organizations don’t need incremental improvements. They need big improvements to stay ahead of the big economic, customer, market and external pressures that the market or other stakeholders demand.

So the question to big bang improvements lies in two areas.

1)       Aligning project work with strategic direction

2)       Providing project work that benefits operations or provides revenue from customers

The portfolio domain has identified practices that allow project spending to be identified, tracked, monitored and optimized. The Organizational Project Management COP wants to additionally influence leadership actions that facilitate successful discussions when monitoring the health or re-optimization of projectized spend.

The program domain states that benefits must be indentified. The Organizational Project Management COP additionally wants to discuss practices and philosophies that apply this concept to real project practices.

In your experience, which one is your organizations biggest pain point; aligning to the strategic direction or providing project work that really helps operations or grows revenue? Would love your comments.

Rosemary Hossenlopp, founder of Project Management Perspectives is the facilitator of an audio series by key project management professionals on what Business Leaders must understand about accelerating execution of strategy through project work.
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Thanks for your interest in writing a chapter in the premiere organization project management (OPM) book.

We need key project management professionals to write on issues that matter to senior leadership.

What will you get from being an author on this ground-breaking organizational project management book?

- Access to OPM author speed research teleseminar
- Access to OPM author writing to a C-Level audience teleseminar
- 5-10 minute Audio Interview professionally edited for use on your web sites or blogs
- 30 minute Audio Interview professionally edited for use on your web sites, blogs or for DVD sale
- Access to a project management consultant marketing boot camp Webinar series
- Peer review of chapter
- Professionally edited chapter
- Global availability of books through Amazon
- Significantly discounted case pricing of books for use in their classes and consulting practices

We look forward to working with you.

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