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.

She interviews Rashed Iqbal, the Project Manager at Optical Research in Pasadena, CA. Rashed is a PMP, a Ph.D, a Certified Scrum Master and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has over 15 years of experience in high-technology industry.

The project management industry is facing challenges. One of the is showing that we actually deliver benefits to the business. Rashed is here to discuss how Organizational Project Management improves ROI in high-tech and knowledge-based projects. (more…)

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.

She interviews Rafay Badar, the founder and CTO of Emilia LLC in Dubai. Rafay is a PMP, Computer Engineer, MBA and an Organizational Project Management Maturity (OPM3) consultant. Over the last 14 years Rafay has been passionately involved in offering value Project Management services to his clients in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and South Asia. Rafay has vast experience in both the functional management and project management arenas working for multinational companies with multinational teams.

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The project management industry is facing challenges. One of them is delivering value on complex, multi-country, multi-vendor, multi-sourced projects.

Rafay Badar is interested in this topic based on his experience and background. (more…)

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 projectized work.

She interviews Mike Jenkins, the Managing Director of the Quilogy Healthcare National Practice. Mike is a PMP(r), an MBA, a member of HIMSS and MS-HUG, and has been influencing the vision and development of technology solutions in the healthcare space for a decade.

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There is a key issue in the project management industry. What? Well, it is no secret that many projects can’t answer this important questions well; what value do you provide the organization?

I want to start a discussion on Organizational Project Management. What is that? There is momentum in the industry that somehow we should better align project work with the needs of the organization. Compare it to a bridge between project work and operations. Someone needs to be a toll keeper to monitor the traffic that gets to use this bridge.

And, by the way, who is responsible to be a toll keeper on this bridge? There could be a couple of answers:

- Project managers responsible for getting the work done.
- Program managers responsible for coordination among projects
- Portfolio managers responsible for intake of the projects and measurement of the health of the project work.
- Business managers responsible for the project funding decisions
- The organization that has to use project results.

Do you have any examples of great projects or great companies that have a clear definition of which of these groups should be the toll keepers for Organizational Project Management?

Oh, and by the way, do you even like the name Organizational Project Management?

Would love to hear from you