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Demystifying the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model™

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Why Equally Mature Companies Can Have Unequal Capabilities
- by John Schlichter (September 7, 2011)
What is maturity? Can an organization be considered mature if it does the wrong things well? What if it does the right things in the wrong way? The OPM3 business standard helps organizations become more mature. But misperceptions still exist about what “maturity” means. This issue is not explained in the standard itself and has never been written about by anyone, so what better place to do so than here and now?

Microsoft CSS Case Study for OPM3
- by opmexperts.com (October 8, 2010)
This OPM3 case study uses material from the forthcoming book Using OPM3. At Microsoft, the Customer Service and Support division has made this link between strategy management and customer-facing teams by transforming its portfolio management capability. This case study will describe several phases of this transformation, including how it aligns with OPM3--and how OPM3 is providing guidance for ongoing improvement.

Welcome to the OPM3 Department
- by John Schlichter
gantthead ushers in a new era with its OPM3 department, and this welcome from subject matter expert John Schlichter provides an overview of PMI's organizational project management standard--and gives us a look at things to come.

OPM3: The Book
A Novel Approach
- by John Schlichter
A forthcoming book from publisher McGraw-Hill will explore the facets of OPM3, and you can help contribute to its development in the context of peer-production or user-developed content. What questions do you want the book to answer? What topics should be explored? Would you like to be featured in the book, and if so, what is your own success story using OPM3? Click here to find out how you can help.

Note: This department operates independently of the Project Management Institute (PMI). OPM3 is a registered mark of PMI.

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Are you passionate about building capable systems for executing organizational strategies through projects? Do you enjoy demonstrating your knowledge of and competence in portfolio, program or project management? Share your ideas and questions about PMI's Organizational Project Management Maturity Model here.

Deliverables
PMI's OPM3 Standard
OPM3 is a framework for assessing and developing an organization’s capabilities in project, program or portfolio management. This presentation introduces the organizational PM standard.

OPM3 Assessment Stakeholder Analysis ( Evaluation Assessment - Template )
This tool helps champions of OPM3 assessments analyze stakeholders who may impact the success of OPM3 implementations.

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