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Organisational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)
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OPM3 Update
  • The OPM3 standard will be updated in December 2008 to align with the new PMBOK 4th Edition and Program and Portflio Management standards (2nd Edition).
  • The best practices will be aligned to the processes in the updated standards and benchmarking data will be converted.
  • A new Self Assessment Model with fewer questions will be incorporated in the OPM Standard.
  • PMI will be assuming full control of the ProductSuite tool from 1st September 2008.  ProductSuite examinations will be on-hold until Q2 of 2009.
  • New courses on the principles of organisational project management planned.
  • Mosaic remains the only organisation in Australia with a PMI Certified OPM3 Assessor and Consultant on staff (Dr. Lynda Bourne), certified to use the OPM3 ProductSuite tool as well as provide guidance and assistance with the implementation of the standard OPM3 system.
Additional information on this exciting upgrade will be released later this year.
OPM3 Overview

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The Project Management Institute’s OPM3 standard emphasises the value of organisational project management in the delivery of organisational strategies.  PMI, with its partner, DNV, has set up a system to conduct OPM3 assessments and to work to identify an improvement program using a robust tool, the OPM3 ProductSuite.  Organisations that have conducted these improvement programs note benefits such as:
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[ Mosaic's library OPM3 Papers ]



OPM 3  -v-  OPM3 ProductSuite
OPM3 Online Self-Assessment Module OPM3 ProductSuite Assessment
Generally conducted by the organisation Conducted under the direction of a PMI certified OPM3 Assessor or Consultant licensed to use the software
Indication of maturity - no verification required for the answers given Evidenced based. Measures actual maturity
Best practice level of assessment with possible manual capabiliy-level assessment Capability level of assessment, fully automated
Binary scoring - Yes/No answers Graduated or partial scoring supported in addition to binary
Fixed number of questions Questions selected based on scope of assessment
Manual compilation of multiple assessments. Benchmarking available Automated compilation of merged assessments. Benchmarking planned.
Manual improvement planning Automated improvement planning tool
Manual application of assessment to strategic goals Relationship to strategy designed into the tool
Pay for software, anyone can use Pay for certification, certified people have access to tools
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OPM3 – PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
 

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OPM3 Product

Released in December 2003, the OPM3 – Single-User Version has quickly become a PMI Bookstore best seller. OPM3 products now available include:

* OPM3 Single-User Version (Web based tool)

* OPM3 Multi-User, Network Version (Web based tool)

To order either tool, please log on to www.pmibookstore.org.

* OPM3 Knowledge Foundation (book - AU$99)

* OPM3 Overview (booklet - AU$27.50)

To order either of the books, in Australia email: OPM3@mosaicprojects.com.au
or log on to www.pmibookstore.org.

Free publications include:-

* Executive's Guide to OPM3 (six pages) [Download PDF]

* OPM3 Highlights (one page) [Download PDF]

* OPM3 Case Study

  • Pinellas County IT Turns Around Performance and Customer confidence [Download PDF]

OPM3 was developed by an international team of PMI volunteers that included Mosaic's Director of Training, Lynda Bourne. Both Lynda Bourne and Patrick Weaver are members of the current OPM3 update team. Some of the key benefits of using OPM3 include:

  • OPM3 helps your organization identify and deliver the right projects to advance its strategy.  
  • With OPM3, you will use organisational inputs to align projects across operations and select only the projects that will deliver business results.
  • Improved project performance and return on investment with OPM3. OPM3 isolates process improvements while forcing organizations to consider external pressures increasing operational and organizational efficiency. 
  • Experience a shift in thinking that will position your organization for immediate gains and long-term success. OPM3 helps your organization align its strategy with the projects that sustain business success. 
  • Through a comprehensive collection of best practices, OPM3 guides your organization on when to stay the course and when to change direction. 
  • OPM3 mitigates operating costs by keeping projects aligned to business strategy. 
  • Scalable by both size and maturity, OPM3’s diagnostic capabilities can guide any organization to improved performance.  

Mosaic's OPM3 Papers, Briefings and Training:-

OPM3 ... Translate Strategy into Success … Drive Business Improvement … Gain a Competitive Advantage!

All organisations will benefit from achieving organizational project management maturity. OPM3 is a standard unlike other contemporary maturity models:

  • OPM3 helps organizations understand organizational project management and their organizational project management maturity.  It enables them to assess the current state of their organizational project management maturity, and, if they choose, to embark upon improvements that will enable them to better manage projects and achieve organizational strategies.   
  • OPM3 is also a tool to help organisations select and deliver the right projects to achieve their strategic objectives. It works to ensure Portfolios and Programs are aligned with the organisations strategic objectives and individual projects fit within the relevant program objectives. OPM3 also provides an effective mechanism for ensuring the consistent and reliable delivery of individual projects across the organisation.

OPM3 was developed under the stewardship of PMI by hundreds of volunteers worldwide with a keen interest in advancing the project management profession. The CD-ROM and book combination offers a comprehensive approach helping organizations to assess and develop their ability to deliver projects successfully, consistently and predictably. The package includes customisable templates, best practice process descriptions, questionnaires, methodologies and check lists that allow organisations to assess their current level of 'Organizational Project Management Maturity', identify areas for improvement, develop and implement improvement plans and measure their overall effectiveness.

OPM3 offers the key to organizational project management maturity with three interlocking elements:

  • KNOWLEDGE element which drives Assessment
  • ASSESSMENT element which in turn drives Improvement
  • IMPROVEMENT element.

The KNOWLEDGE element, found on the CD-ROM and in the accompanying OPM3 Knowledge Foundation book, lets organizations uncover hundreds of Best Practices and shows them how to use the information available in OPM3.

The ASSESSMENT element is an interactive database tool accessible on the CD-ROM that lets organizations evaluate their current situation and identify their areas in need of improvement should an organization decided to embark on the path to higher maturity.

The IMPROVEMENT element, also accessible on the CD-ROM as a database, will help map out the steps needed to achieve their goals.

Just as no project management practitioner should be without A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), no organization can afford to be without this valuable resource. OPM3 will help organizations align their strategic goals to the successful completion of projects and understand their organizational project management maturity. More importantly, for organizations, which desire to improve their organizational project management maturity, OPM3 provides guidance to help plan projects to improve maturity while conserving resources.

An Executive’s Guide to OPM3 is now available! This five-page, easy-to-read summary about PMI’s newest standard was designed and written with the busy executive in mind. It encapsulates OPM3 at a high level but includes enough detail for the interested reader to understand OPM3’s potential benefits to an organisation. PMI's one page OPM3 Highlights is ideal for distribution.


OPM3 is an evolving Standard.

PMI has commenced a two year project to review and update the OPM3 Standard to incorporate the new Program and Portfolio Management Standards as well as the changes in the PMBOK Guide. When released at the end of 2008, OPM3 will align with the PMBOK 4th Edition, the 2nd edition of the Program and Portfolio Management Standards and the Combined Standards Glossary.



OPM3 ProductSuite

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OPM3 ProductSuite supports PMI's Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) with a full set of ancillary products and services that expand the assessment and improvement capabilities of OPM3 to give organizations the ability to measure the maturity of project management processes being applied to multiple projects organization-wide.

OPM3 ProductSuite has been developed by DNV as part of a strategic alliance with PMI to provide a faster, more comprehensive approach to service a growing global market. DNV will serve as the exclusive administrator of global training, certification and registration of PMI Certified OPM3 Assessors™ and PMI Certified OPM3 Consultants™. OPM3 ProductSuite has been designed to enable a higher level of OPM3 application by providing certified Assessors and Consultants with the training, tools, and services that increase their ability to help organizations achieve even greater value from their projects, programs and portfolios.

The OPM3 ProductSuite has three main elements: certifications, tools, and services.

  • Certifications provides the project management community with the skills it needed to achieve the status of PMI Certified OPM3 Assessor or PMI Certified OPM3 Consultant.
  • Tools provide robust Assessment and Improvement methodology and tools. The tools allow rigorous inspection of the organization’s total project management maturity to a degree that has never before been available, including the ability to tailor assessments based on an organization’s strategic and business priorities, and the capability to compile multiple inputs for a single assessment. Additionally, tools element enables assessment data to be input into an improvement tool that delivers planning guidance based on key performance measures and priorities defined by the organization.
  • Services currently consists of a comprehensive Assessment database, an OPM3 ProductSuite Provider Registry, and a Registered OPM3 Consultancy status. Benchmarking is also being considered as a future of OPM3 ProductSuite Services.

The OPM3 ProductSuite methodology together with the Assessment and Improvement Tools enable certified Assessors to analyse the project, program and/or portfolio maturity of any organization or division, at a detailed level of granularity. The Improvement tool allows qualified Consultants to build comprehensive improvement plans that match business needs of the organisation.

"I have been an IT Project Manager for twenty years and have to say that ProductSuite is by far the best tool I have ever used. It is easy to use but clearly sophisticated; the [DNV] development team has worked wonders in rendering a complex set of user-friendly requirements."
Lynda Bourne, DPM, PMP, Director of Training, Mosaic Project Services Pty Ltd

Additional OPM3 ProductSuite information:

OPM3 ProductSuite Training and Support from Mosaic

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Mosaic's OPM3 Foundation Course & Executive Briefings These sessions are designed to provide managers with:
[ See more on the OPM3 Foundation Course and Executive Briefings ]
   

OPM3 ProductSuite Training and Certification

OPM3 ProductSuite supports the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) with a full set of ancillary products and services. OPM3 ProductSuite will enable a higher level of OPM3 application by providing service providers (i.e. Assessors and Consultants) with training, tools, and services that increase their ability to help organisations achieve even greater value from OPM3.

All OPM3 ProductSuite training is provided by DNV as part of a global agreement with PMI. For details visit the OPM3 ProductSuite home page:- www.opm3productsuite.com. Mosaic's Dr. Lynda Bourne is part of the team conducting OPM3 ProductSuite courses world-wide.
 
[ Download OPM3 ProductSuite Course information ]
 
OPM3 ProductSuite Assessment and Consultancy

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OPM3 Maturity Assessment.

As Australia's first PMI Certified OPM3 Assessor, Dr. Lynda Bourne, works with your organisation to assess its project management maturity.  This assessment is scoped to meet your organisation’s unique needs.  During the assessment, the assessment team will conduct interviews and review your existing portfolio, program, and project management processes, procedures, and guidelines.  They will then analyse the data and prepare and deliver a detailed report of their findings according to the OPM3 Best Practices your organization has achieved.  The data is owned by you for your later use.  [ See more on Assessments ]

OPM3 Improvement Program.

As Australia's first PMI Certified OPM3 Consultant, Dr. Lynda Bourne, will work with your organisation to develop an improvement plan focusing on the Best Practices your organisation should implement based on your priorities, their attainability, benefits, and cost.  She can also can work with you to develop metrics to measure business performance improvements. [ See more on Implementing Improvements ]
OPM3, CMMI and P3M3

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There are three well defined ‘maturity models’ internationally available, which is the most appropriate to use?
 Dr. Lynda Bourne and Angela Tuffley's paper Modelling Your Maturity, P3M3, CMMI and/or OPM3 compares and contrasts the three standards and identify their strengths and weaknesses [ Download the Paper ]


OPM3 and CMMI Collaboration
Maturity models provide a mechanism to assess organizations against best practices, identify gaps and create improvement plans. The Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) are two well-established maturity models that address sustainable performance improvements. PMI have commissioned a series of studies including work by Dr. Lynda Bourne to understand the relationship between these two important Maturity Models. The final reports were completed in 2007

Review the Summary report: OPTIMIZED STRATEGY - The benefits of combining OPM3® and CMMI to support organizational performance improvements [Download summary].

Or the detailed report 'Collaborative Opportunities for Using OPM3® and CMMI®' prepared by Tom Keuten PMP and Tim MacFadyen PMP [Download report].


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