As you continue to sweep the firing flames of chaotic project management, one of the items leadership needs to consider if it is time grow up from a Functional organizational model to a strong matrix organizational model. Now this does not occur immediately, but it speaks to having an established model of empowered project managers and a transformational PMO which drives the strategic projects of the organization.
Historically, IT and the business developed into functional divisions, departments, and teams. Currently throughout the organization, there will be concerns regarding over-utilized resources and the constant pulling of resources in multiple directions.
A decision needs to be made of whether having a division drive all health system projects, including IT and business projects. After all now-a-days most projects are business projects with an IT component, so it makes some sense to have a division drive the projects through to realization of the benefits.
If this is the course of action your organization chooses, then the next decision at which management level does the PMO sit. Obviously the further into the weeds the PMO is the less it can drive results strategically. Most enterprise transformational PMO are under the CEO, and have a staffing model. A single PM reporting to a director would just be enabling departmental standards in pm, training for pm, and toolsets. It really depends at which degree the leadership is willing to empower the PMO and the project managers.
Further Readings on Taming Chaotic Project Management:
- The Top Ten Characteristics of a Chaotic Project Management Environment
- Find out how many active projects are in flight.
- Establish your organization's current and desired need of Healthcare IT
- Collaborate on Prioritization Decision Criteria
- Have a defined and approved process to accept work.
- How to stop running the daily meeting marathon
- Using the WBS to define deliverables
- How to know when you have a project and when you do not
- 8 Training Tips on how to develop project schedules
- Introduce a Scope Change Management Process
- Introduce a Benefits Management Process
- Top 5 benefits to a project dashboard
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