OPM Assessment

An OPM assessment is a structured assessment that can help you to identify the low-hanging fruit as well as a roadmap for improvement that will enable your organization to deliver projects successfully, consistently, and predictably.

How BOT International can help?

BOT International can help you with OPM in two ways. First, BOT International partners with proven experts in OPM to offer assessment workshops, training, and consulting. And second, BOT International provides Processes On Demand, a platform for OPM Enablement that enables you to rapidly set up your project management policies and measurements, processes and best practices, and project management templates and content assets.

OPM assessments provide benefits in many areas, such as:

• Assess internal capabilities to achieve strategic priorities through projects.
• Help those responsible for project management identify drivers of project results.
• Achieve consistent execution of project management processes.
• Demonstrate relationships between executive and project management functions.
• Identify areas for incremental, coordinated, and sustained improvement.
• Establish a culture of continuous improvement.

BOT International and its OPM consuting partner, OPM Experts, can help your organization get the most out of your OPM3 assessment:

• Estimate the resources required to carry out your assessment.
• Effectively and accurately estimate the benefits of your assessment.
• Identify and confirm key stakeholders who should be involved.
• Determine the highest priorities and where best to focus resources.
• Execute assessment activities unobtrusively yet comprehensively.
• Interpret assessment results correctly and communicate findings effectively.
• Identify improvements that will produce the highest value, quickly and cost-effectively.
• Decide how to act on assessment results, appropriate to your organization.
• Develop the capability to perform in-house assessments without the help of consultants.

Learn how to use the Project Management Institute standard for organizational project management maturity - available onsite and at selected conferences.

• Day One - the first day of the workshop addresses:
  • The underlying theory of organizational project management
  • The OPM model, its structure
  • Best Practices, Outcomes, Key Performance Indicators, Metrics, dependencies
  • The domains of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management
  • Levels of Standardization , Measurement and Control, Continuous Improvement
  • The OPM implementation process
• Day Two - the second day of the workshop addresses:
  • The OPM Assessment process
  • High Level Assessment
  • Capability Assessment
  • Capability Development Plan
  • Alternative ways to start an Assessment
  • How to scope an Assessment
  • How to quickly develop a shared consensus regarding existing practices
  • How to develop recommendations
• Day Three - the third day of the workshop addresses:
  • Case study
  • High level assessment
  • Analysis of results
  • Planning for your detailed Capability Assessment
  • Facilitating decisions regarding using a subset of OPM
  • How to compile results, identify outliers, interpret false-positive results, and present findings correctly