Organizational Project Management Maturity Model: OPM3

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Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
OPM3

• Kat Stone
• Megan Wathen

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• If your organization doesnt strive for
  consistency, you may be destined for mediocrity.

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What is OPM3?

• Project Managements Maturity Model
• Maturity Models are used to appraise an
  organizations process maturity to show where it
  can improve process execution
• OPM3 is an online application and book
  combination
• Structured Approach to Maturing
• Includes 586 Best Practices
• Development 1998 Released 2003
• PMI is chartering the next iteration of OPM3 in
  2007

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Three Interlocking Elements

• Knowledge Element
• Assessment Element
• Improvement Element

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Knowledge Element

• Presented on OPM3 Online and in the accompanying
  OPM3 Knowledge Foundation book
• Lets the organization uncover hundreds of Best
  Practices and shows them how to use the
  information available in OPM3
• Describes
• Organizational project management
• Organizational project management maturity
• Relevant Best Practices
• How to use OPM3

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Assessment Element

• OPM3 Self-Assessment interactive online database
• Lets organizations evaluate their current
  situation and identify their areas in need of
  improvement
• Allows organizations to compare the current state
  of organizational project management maturity
  with the key traits described in OPM3
• Based upon the Assessment results, organizations
  reference the Improvement element
• Online Business Assessment

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Improvement Element

• Accessible through the online database
• Help organizations map out the steps needed to
  achieve their goals
• Improving processes in three areas
• Improve these areas in four stages
• Organizations determine the Best Practices they
  want to use
• Once Improvement plan is established the
  organization implements the appropriate
  activities to attain necessary Capabilities to
  increase its organizational project maturity

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Taken from An Executives Guide to OPM3.
http//opm3online.pmi.org
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Why should we use OPM3?

• Maturity assessments evaluate performance in key
  project management areas
• Change management initiatives
• Create demand for training while fostering
  continuous improvement
• Ongoing discovery is critical to managing an
  assessment

• Taken from Growing Up PM Network. June, 2005.

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Works Cited

• Jedd, Marcia. Growing Up. PM Network. June
  2005. www.pmi.org
• Fretty, Peter. Leaving the Box. PM Network.
  November 2005. www.pmi.org
• An Executives Guide to OPM3 A Guide to
  Strategic Success, Business Improvement and
  Competitive Advantage. Project Management
  Institute. http//opm3online.pmi.org
• OPM3/Organizational Project Management Maturity
  Model. http//opm3online.pmi.org/Overview.aspx