1. Utilizing OPM3 and PMO Tools in Achieving
Better Business and Financial Results
Nada A. Abandah, OPM3, PgMP

2. Helps you achieve results, but
it is not the result!

3.  Examine five different challenges in five
businesses,
 Assess the options those organizations had,
and what option pursued,
 Critique the outcome, and Share the
conclusion

4.  The Challenge:
◦ 83 interrelated, interdependent projects,
◦ Aggressive deadline, with short market window,
◦ Functional staff “Managing Projects” with limited or
no PM experience,
◦ Zero tolerance for mistakes, delays, or problems.
 The Options:
◦ Provide proper training for functional staff
◦ Hire Project Management Staff
◦ Create detailed, idiot-proof methodology
◦ Manage the Projects by the PMO

5.  The Resolution:
◦ Create a Master Plan of Milestone plans.
◦ Focus on managing interdependencies
◦ Provide early warning signs
◦ Create a culture of urgency
◦ PMO does all paper work, PMs focus on work.

6. Telecommunication:

7.  The Challenge:
◦ Family business in its second generation,
◦ Business grew organically from 18 to over 300 in
less than 6 months,
◦ Huge amount of waste, unjustified costs, and
suspected embezzlement,
◦ Centralized decision-making, senior management
is a bottle-neck,
◦ No streamlined operations, and projects running in
“Fire-Fighting” Mode.

8.  The Resolution:
◦ Standardization is the first step of Improvement,
◦ Start with the vision and strategic objectives, and
work your way from there,
◦ Focus on the right things that impact the bottom
line,

9.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNF9QN
EQLA

10. Construction:
Institutionalizing Family
Business, Building a Process,
Reducing Waste

11.  The Challenge:
◦ Newly established PMO office, with less than 2
years of Project Management Culture,
◦ Diversified projects in scope, size, nature,
importance, and needs,
◦ Departmental PMO (within IT Department) servicing
the entire organization.
 The Options:
◦ Make the methodology extensive to suite the
diversity of projects,
◦ Create flavors of the methodology

12. Profile Project
Manager
Level
Scope
Details
Reporting &
Communication
…
Profile A
Large Project
Dedicated
Project
Manager
Very detailed
scope
statement
Detailed,
electronic, weekly.
Profile B
Medium
Project
Project
Manager
Scope
statement
High level, monthly
or twice a month.
Profile C
Small Project
Project
Coordinator
SOW Simple, weekly
Profile D
Fast Track
Sr. Project
Manager
SOW Daily.

13. Finance:
Conformance, Consistency,
Delivery Excellence.

14.  The Challenge:
◦ Focusing on % complete as a reporting tool,
◦ Senior Management insisting on knowing the
details,
◦ Minister under huge public pressure for delivering,
◦ Not seeing the value in having a PMO.
 The Resolution:
◦ Focusing on Bottom Line (what did the result of my
project achieve)
◦ Eliminating % complete from reporting.

15. Government:
Reporting Progress &
Achieving Results

16.  The Challenge:
◦ Local Company competing at international level,
◦ Creating detailed, yet flexible methodology that
maintains the consistency, but allows for
suppleness,
 The Options:
◦ Go Agile!
◦ Adapt a well-known methodology (i.e. Oracle,
Rational…) and customize it

17.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeGxgnz
2e8

18. Software:
Compliance, Consistency,
Predictability, International
Standards.

19.  Focus on what’s important, and don’t get
derailed by the temptation of being everything,
to everyone, at all times,
 Learn the Methodology, then choose when to
break it
 Reporting should help you see early warning
signs, and what needs to be done to achieve
results instead of highlighting the achievements.
 Methodology help institutionalize, increase
predictability, and enhance business results.

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21. Nada Abandah