Corporate Improvement Process (CIP) for PM Organisational Maturity

Murray Gough
Director, Best Practice Project Management Pty Ltd

One Day Workshop July 7, 2009

Developing and Managing a Corporate Improvement Process for Project Management
This seminar examines how a corporation can improve its maturity in project management through a systems approach to development and change. The Corporate Improvement Process (CIP) involves analysing the project context and environment, developing a CIP project plan, identifying and establishing or confirming the methodologies, procedures, and toolsets, examining and confirming project governance frameworks, establishing customised skills and knowledge based workshops, coaching and mentoring, promoting professional certification, validating and measuring using KPIs of success, and reporting on attainment of maturity. A major (seven year) case study will be discussed and exemplified. Participants will develop the framework of a CIP project plan to take back to their workplace.

Objectives

• Explain the CIP
• Explain how the CIP is applied using a Case Study
• Examine and use key documentation in developing and managing the CIP
• To customise a project plan for the participant’s organisation

Expected Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Explain the CIP process to a prospective Sponsor
• Produce a CIP project plan for a target organisation

Seminar style

• Workshop, instructor- led with case studies and activities.

Target Audience

This seminar is ideally suited to:

• senior project managers,
• project and / or program office managers or
• executive level managers interested in establishing or updating the organisation’s methodologies, procedures and toolsets to increase the corporation’s maturity level and professional project management expertise.