The Suite Life: Enterprise Project Management in Government

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The Suite Life: Enterprise Project Management in Government

Tim Jaques, PMP

April 28, 2008






Project management is rapidly evolving in government organizations. Over the past five years, Project Management Offices have flourished across all levels of government. PMI has recognized this trend and advanced the commanding role of project management with the publication a PMBOK Government Extension.
 
Agencies have begun to see success with project management, with increased numbers of trained project managers, training courses, formalized PM career tracks and PM being required on projects. One year ago, the Federal Government published a set of guidelines, documented in the Federal Acquisition Certificate for Program and Project Managers (FAC-P/PM) that outlines the structured development of PM practitioners. Clearly, project management is on the rise in government.
 
There seems to be an emerging constellation of organizations and services that, when integrated, form a standard of public sector enterprise project management (EPM).



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