OPM3® is an acronym for the Organisational Project Management Maturity Model - a standard developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
The purpose of OPM3 is to provide an understanding of organisational project management and a way for organisations to measure their maturity against a comprehensive and broad based set of organisational project management Best Practices.
Organisations can also increase their project management maturity in order to plan for improvement with the use of OPM3.
OPM3 offers the key to organisational project management maturity with three interlocking elements:
- Knowledge
- Assessment
- Improvement
By assessing organisational performance, you can ensure that you have the systems and processes in place in order to effectively complete your project on time and on budget, whilst also identifying potential obstacles in the way of your success.
With OPM3 your organisation is compared against approximately 600 best practices, based on four stages of process improvement:
- Standardise
- Measure
- Control
- Continuously Improve
OPM3 can also be used to assess an organisation's maturity in program and portfolio management. The OPM3 assessment results in a maturity continuum score and an improvement road map to boost performance in your organization.
Our consultants are trained, certified and licensed to use this advanced modelling system that provides the capability for either "desktop" or "rigorous" analysis (enhancement from original OPM3), and tailored, prioritised Improvement Plans using its many dimensions and/or categories as followed:
Domain or "PPP" (Project Management, Program Management and Portfolio Management)
Stage, or "SMCI"(Standardise, Measure, Control and Continuous Improvement)
Process (Initiate, Plan, Execute, Control and Close)
Organisational Enablers (one of the many enhancements from PMI's original OPM3):
- Benchmarking
- Competence Management
- Executive Sponsorship
- Knowledge Management
- Management Systems
- Organisational Structures
- Resource allocation
- Strategic alignment
- Teamwork approaches
- Organisational PM Methodology
- Organisational PM Policy and Vision
- Organisational PM Practices
- Organisational PM techniques
- Project Management Information Systems
- Project Management Information Metrics
- Project Management Information training
- Project Success Criteria
- Individual Performance appraisals
PM-Partners are able to offer strategic OPM3® assessments using the comprehensive Product Suite. Our certified OPM3® Assessors can undertake a rapid 5 day fixed price assessment and produce an overview report detailing your project management maturity position on a single project or on the entire organisation.
Our Consultants can then work alongside you to help your organisation to achieve strategic project management improvement against the PMI’s global standards of best practices and constituent capabilities
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