Beyond CMMI... PEMM

about this blog RSS recent posts    Do You Need a Project Management Survival Plan?    Do You Need a Delegation Document?    T- shirts Seem to Be All the Rage    Do You Need a Team Operating Agreement?    Is Your Team Really a Team?      January 2012      December 2011      November 2011      October 2011      September 2011      August 2011      July 2011      June 2011      May 2011      April 2011      March 2011      February 2011      January 2011      December 2010      November 2010      October 2010      September 2010      August 2010      July 2010      June 2010      May 2010      April 2010      March 2010      February 2010      January 2010      December 2009      November 2009      October 2009      September 2009      August 2009      July 2009      June 2009      May 2009      April 2009      March 2009      February 2009      January 2009      December 2008      November 2008      October 2008      September 2008      August 2008      July 2008      June 2008      May 2008      April 2008      March 2008      February 2008      January 2008      December 2007      November 2007      October 2007      September 2007      August 2007      July 2007      June 2007      May 2007      April 2007      March 2007      February 2007      January 2007      December 2006      November 2006 Project Management 2.0   by - Dave Garrett New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave] Advice | Certification | Collaboration Tools | Decision Making | Estimating | Interviews | Learning | Management Approaches | New Templates | Personal Productivity | PM Software | PPM Software | Presentation Tools | Reporting Tools | Requirements | Research | Risk | Scheduling Software | Security | Team Building | Techie Tools | Time Killers | Time Tracking Software | Training | Virtual Team Tools | Web-based Tools

Situation: You're Planning to Change Important Business Processes...

In IT we talked forever about CMMI.  Lately, to judge any offshore effort you must at least consider the outsourcers' CMMI maturity level.

In the latest Harvard Business Review, Michael Hammer offers a VERY useful process audit toolkit that will help you plan process changes, track progress, and understand roadblocks to the change.  The framework he uses is called Process and Enterprise Maturity Model (PEMM).  The downloads related to the article are extremely useful and offer a simple (red, yellow, green) view of the results.

Here are the downloads:
- Assessing the Maturity of Your Processes
- Evaluating the Maturity of Your Enterprise

PEMM is NOT:
- IT-specific 
- applicable to specific processes (not does it recommend or specify any)

Briefly, PEMM looks at:

Process Enablers
- Design that specifies how the process should be executed
- Performers who carry out the process
- Owner who is responsibel for the process and the results it produced.
- Infrastructure supporting the process
- Metrics to track process performance

Enterprise Capabilities
- Leadership that supports the creation of the new process
- Culture that supports or opposes the change
- Expertise in process redesign
- Governance that specify rules around making and sustaining the change.

Please Login/Register to leave a comment.