OPM EPM Construction a view

This is an insight to OPM and EPM and I will have 3 sections here and will go from Organisational Project Management – OPM  to Enterprise-wide Project Management  (tools like Microsoft and Primavera) to Use in Construction.

OPM:  Today in the global competitive business with success being more customer centric projects need to be aligned to business objectives and to gain continuous success selection of the Project Portfolio needs bottom knowledge, This requirement based on research was found to be requiring communication and collaboration from TOP to BOTTOM and BOTTON to TOP for alignment of project successes to business goals. The need has lead to a new concept Enterprise Project Management or OPM (Organization Project Management). This spans the Project, Program,

Portfolio Levels of process & organization. It has also been established that organizations following this Organization Project Management have a better success rate than those that are not using it. This capability to use Organizational/Enterprise Project Management that allows Portfolio, Program, Project Management implementation to meet the organization vision/strategy through the projects success is called organizational Project management maturity.

Visit:  www.pmi.org    for OPM3® Knowledge and standards on Portfolio, Program and Project Management

http://www.slideshare.net/skmadapatu/opm3r5linkedin

NOTE: the paper that I have written for all planning and scheduling professionals is one that gives an idea about OPM and EPM  follow link as follows or make a google search for  --  PMI COS EPM

http://www.pmicos.org/topics/topic%20-%202007-03.pdf

EPM: There are number of tools that are trying to achieve what is required for OPM and due to marketing strategy many call these also PPM tools, From experience I will like to give a personal warning that requires everyone to think beyond the sales talk. In our experience useless an assessment is made by a qualified person or group who have the full knowledge of Portfolio, program project management and processes  and has worked with EPM with success do not buy any tool. Organization who think of EPM have to have the culture and maturity of OPM wherein all know about SMCI or PDCA cycle.  EPM is a tool and it is a ocean so it is best to stop here and see some links where can know more about these.

Visit:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/8/8/788c3c80-0264-4bf8-9acd-d2c2a1ad69f4/Gartner%20EPM%20Presentation%20Horsens%208%20Sept%202005.pdf

http://www.primavera.com/newsroom/articles/PrimaveraSoftware_012006.pdf

Enterprise Project Management:  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                  Also see       http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/epmsolution/FX101935291033.aspx

Construction:  I for one who has been in the field of construction management from the days of the main frame and CPM/PERT still think of those days as for me there no one tool that will satisfy the requirement of construction from office level to the site task level. In fact this has lead us to start developing a group of add-ons that will be able to handle all missing links to enterprise-wide construction management using Microsoft EPM as a base. Please go through the links given below to get an idea.  I made a google search for  “Enterprise-wide Project Management EPM for Construction” and got the first 4 links as follows read these to get an ide:

First:   http://www.epmguidance.com/?page_id=622  

Second : link to my paper in PMI COS

Third:  http://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/advisor/reality/Atkins-Final.doc

Forth:  http://www.projecthosts.com/partners.asp

We can start a Q & A on this once these are read and need some more clarifications.