Techniques and Methodologies

Description The Stakeholder Circle™ is based on the premise that a project can only exist with the informed consent of its stakeholder community. This community comprises individuals and groups, each with a different potential to influence the project’s outcome. The Stakeholder Circle™ has been devised to offer a mechanism for mapping a project's unique stakeholder community, assessing the relative influence of each of the key stakeholders and planning ways to engage with and manage their expectations/contributions. The benefit of using this tool is derived in part from the analysis process itself as well as from the ease with which the influence of key stakeholder’s on the project can be judged once the ‘Stakeholder Circle’ diagram is complete. The tool facilitates the regular updating of this assessment as the stakeholder community changes to reflect the dynamic nature of the project and its relationships. Changes and trends are tracked over time to help the team identify which engagement strategies are working and which need reviewing. To develop the 'circle', Stakeholders are weighted according to the three characteristics.

Proximity
This aspect considers how closely a stakeholder is associated with the day-to-day running of the project. The small circle in the centre of the
diagram represents the project. The space between the two circles represents the sphere of influence of the project on its whole stakeholder
community. The proximity of a stakeholder to the project is represented by how close their segment is to the project in the centre.

Urgency / Importance
The width of the arc represents the amount of urgency or importance attributed to a stakeholder from the teams perspective (ie, how likely the
stakeholder is to use its power), the wider the segment, the greater the urgency.

Stakeholder Circle Development
Stakeholder Management Pty Ltd (SHM) is focused on improving project success rates by developing innovative and effective ways to help project teams: identify, prioritize, visualize, engage with, and monitor their unique stakeholder community. Working with Dr. Lynda Bourne, SHM has developed the Stakeholder Circle™ tool set and methodology to achieve these aims, supported by a range of workshops and training courses to introduce organisations to the methodology. For additional information email: lyndab@stakeholder-management.com

Lynda has published a number of papers discussing aspects of the Stakeholder Circle™ (including her Doctoral thesis). These may be down loaded from the 'Published Papers' section of this site [go to Stakeholder Circle™ papers]

Stakeholder Management Pty Ltd

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OPM3 – PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model

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:-

• Mosaic's OPM3 Initiation Workshop is now available [View Training Details]
  
  
• Mosaic's OPM3 Executive Briefing - 60 minute presentation. The benefits and philosophy of OPM3 [View OPM3 Executive Briefing details]
  
  
• Go to Mosaic's Published Papers discussing OPM3.
  
  
• Go to Mosaic's OPM3 consultancy page for assessments, consultancy and assistance with OPM3 implementation.
  
  
• Visit PMI's OPM3 web page: opm3online.pmi.org
  
  
  

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

All organisations will benefit from achieving organizational project management maturity. To assist with this process, Mosaic is working to develop a range of OPM3 training packages for certification by PMI later this year and will be publishing a number of papers.

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.

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OPM3 ProductSuite

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.

The ‘5 Steps To Ensure Project Success’ methodology is a proven process designed to focus the thinking of the key Stakeholders onto the parameters required to achieve a successful project outcome. It uses the development of the schedule as a central plank in its approach to developing an effective project team and fostering positive stakeholder involvement.

The process is designed as a logical sequence of activities (and importantly, agreements) but recognises iterative passes through some of the key steps may be required to achieve agreement.