ay oF BACKGROUND Creating a Methodology"412 CREATING A METHODOLOGY ‘ORITICAL ISSUES. n of a project management into conduct a moming thre project management and the value af an ‘ology (EPM). As par ofthe session, the com to develop ancl implement an BPM system can be project management office (PMO) in place to take the lead role. The consultant also explained that whichever executive gets control of the PMO may become cexcontives because he or of the project management intellecwal property. The execs implication of this and therefore became relucte rmonagement nati they c me, project management suffer red reporting £0 hopefully take the lead in cluded that thece were five were done, th ‘been accomplished, The final briefing would be ‘updates and progress reports, The PMO believed ani sign-off in timely manner would be difficult ‘The first slep that needed! to be done was the es life-cycle phases. Some people interviewed wanted ten to twelve ‘meant that there wonld be ten to twelve gate review meetings and ‘managers wold spend a great deal of time preparing paperwork roject. The the monthly getting executive support then matte fo have no more The s round De designed id policies and procedures or go the more informal route of using forms, guidelines, checklists, and templates. The PMO felt that project managers needed some degree of freedom in dealing with clients and therefore the more informal approach would work best. Also, clients were asking to have the methodology designed around the approach would provide the flex “The thied step was to see what conld be salvaged from the ex and checklists, The company had & few templates and cheeMlists bat project managers used them, The decision was made to develop ast ff documents in aocordance with the information in the PMBOK" Guide. The project managers could then select whatever forms, guidelines, templates, and checklists were appropriate for a particular project and client Questions as ‘The fourth step would be to develop a means fr capuing het practices sing the EPM system. Cents were now ing in ice RET ha bes oe tit ona proj ted and shared with th let pic to the ese ont ofthe poet Mat fhe poplin te MO ballet sculls tns sing forms or checks athe final poet deufing nto ‘he Ath Hep involved Crining. Te projet managers and tha would sn the projects would nee to the we ofthe new methodcogy The PMO batieved that ton gram would siice andthe fonct QUESTIONS 1. What ean you determine about waited this long to cor Can a PMO secelerate the he fact that they the development of an EPM system? 1ses in an EPM system’? is design an EPM system around flexible or inflexible elements? Generally, wh EPM system, do companies prefer to use sign? {6 Should an EPM system have the capability of capharing best ‘prectices?