OPM Assessment

An Organizational Project Management (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. This can include both the formal projects of your Project Management Office (PMO) as well as all of the informal and "accidental" projects throughout the entire organization.

How BOT International can help?

BOT International can help you with OPM in three ways.

First, BOT International recommends that you read Chapter 12: "Advancing Organizational Project Management - From Theory to Practice" of the book by Mark Price Perry, Business Driven PMO Setup; Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success. This book, and in particular Chapter 12, is a must read for anyone seeking to improve upon organizational project management capabilities and outcomes.
Second, BOT International has worked with proven experts in the various standards and commercial approaches for OPM for years. Based upon your needs and the particular standard or commercial approach to OPM that you are seeking to adopt, BOT International will recommend and provide you with introductions to qualified subject matter experts in this domain. BOT International has no commercial affiliation, nor financial stake in the services these experts provide; our only interest is to help you get the OPM resources you are seeking.
And third, BOT International provides Processes On Demand, a PMO Content Asset solution for PMO setup and managing projects and project related work throughout the organization. Processes On Demand installs in minutes, can be set up in a day, and enables you to rapidly set up your PMO processes and templates, policies and measurements, guidance and learning resources, executive dashboards, and supporting project management best practice knowledge. Processes On Demand enables you to institutionalize the results of your OPM assessment ensuring that capabilities and outcomes are improved and sustained. This ensures that your investment in an OPM assessment has practical value rather than just being a theoretical exercise that may likely be unactionable and soon forgotten.

Benefits of an OPM Assessment

OPM assessments based upon accepted standards or commercial approaches 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 can put you in contact with an OPM expert today to help your organization get the most out of your assessment:

Pre-assessment no-charge consultation from BOT International
- Establish the goals of your assessment
- Determine the assessment approach (standards based or commercial approach)
- Introduce you to concepts and pitfalls (Chapter 12: "Advancing Organizational Project Management - From Theory to Practice" of the book by Mark Price Perry, Business Driven PMO Setup; Practical Insights, Techniques, and Case Examples for Ensuring Success).
- Recommend and introduce you to qualified and experienced subject matter experts in the domain of organizational project management
Assessment services provided by qualified OPM consultants
- 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 on your own without the help of fee-based consultants.