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DIARY: August 22, 1997 09:39 AM Friday; Rod Welch

Received article in PM Network on Project Office.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Managing Organizations By Projects (MOBP) promotes Project Management
3...Project Office
4...Center of Excellence for Project Management
5...Program Office
6...Project Management Program Office (PMPO)
7...Cost/Benefit Overhead Expense Project Office


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SUBJECTS
Project Office, Business Engineering,
Information Management (IT)
Integration, Balancing, Visualization
Enterprise Workflow, PM Steering Committee
Decision Support, Business Process Reengineering
PM Career Opportunity, Mentoring
Hierarchial Organizations Replaced by
MOBP Managing Organizations by Projects
Reengineer Enterprise Management KM AI Project Management Use Tech to

1411 -    ..
1412 - Summary/Objective
1413 -
141301 - Follow up ref SDS 32 0000, ref SDS 30 0000.
141302 -
141303 - There is another article advocating use of a "Project Office" that has
141304 - various levels of authority and responsibility depending upon the
141305 - amount of project work that occurs in an organization.  It does not
141306 - offer a cost benefit analysis of this overhead cost, and does not give
141307 - any ideas on improving the primary factor of project success which is
141308 - communication.
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141312 -  ..
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1416 - Progress
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141701 - Paul Dinsmore article in the August 1997 issue of PM Network on p. 18,
141702 - supports creating departmental function, called variously a...
141703 -
141704 -                          Project Office,
141705 -
141706 -    .., as a stable home base, ref OF 1 line 12.  Dinsmore notes
141707 -    project management has different levels of formalized status in
141708 -    different organizations, ref OF 1 line 19.
141709 -
141710 - This article supplements articles in the May 1997 issue calling for a
141711 - Project Office, ref SDS 30 0000.
141712 -
141713 - Managing Organizations By Projects (MOBP) promotes Project Management
141714 - for everything, ref OF 5 line 24. It is a formulation like "Modern
141715 - Project Management" (MPM) a few years ago.  Dinsmore says MOBP is the
141716 - "ideal" justification for a Project Office, but analysis of prior
141717 - articles indicates MOBP eliminates need for a "Project Office,"
141718 - because the CEO's office is already in charge of everything, ref SDS
141719 - 30 line 194.
141720 - ..
141721 - Dinsmore cites an article he wrote in the June 1997 PM Network
141722 - advocating a Project Office.  He says professional events and ad hoc
141723 - meetings with professionals support the need for a Project Office, see
141724 - ref OF 5 line 39.
141725 -
141726 - He gives four separate names:
141727 -
141728 -           Project Office
141729 -           Center of Excellence for Project Management
141730 -           Program Office
141731 -           Project Management Program Office (PMPO)
141732 -
141733 -     [Example of Project Office at Unisys, ref SDS 33 0911.]
141734 -
141735 -     [On 971004 report that Stanford closed its Project Office on
141736 -     971003. ref SDS 34 0000]
141737 -
141738 -     [On 980630 case study in PMJ on Atlantic Bell using the Internet
141739 -     to support a project office called Project Management Center of
141740 -     Excellence. ref SDS 37 0633]
141741 -
141742 -
141743 -  ..
141744 - Project Office
141745 -
141746 - The author lists following things Project Office can do ref OF 5 line
141747 - 53:
141748 -
141749 -       •  Support, tools and services
141750 -
141751 -          Planning                Scope Change
141752 -          Scheduling              Cost
141753 -
141754 -       •  Multiproject support
141755 -       •  Loan staff to projects for startup support
141756 -       •  Loan staff to projects for extended stint
141757 -
141758 -       •  Resources
141759 -       •  Methodology
141760 -       •  Interface (another word for communication)
141761 -
141762 - Dinsmore does not cite the need for a...
141763 -
141764 -                  repository of experience
141765 -
141766 -    ...which he described as a benefit of a Project Office in his
141767 -    article in the May issue of PM Network. ref SDS 30 4700
141768 -
141769 - Dinsmore fails to cite key role of Communication Metrics in project
141770 - success.
141771 -
141772 - Analysis of effectivenss that a Project Office can achieve without
141773 - using Communication Metrics, based on experience in the construction
141774 - industry, weapons procurement and at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
141775 - including impact of information entropy is at ref SDS 30 line 174.
141776 -
141777 - Dinsmore fails to provide a cost/benefit analysis.
141778 -
141779 -
141780 -  ..
141781 - Center of Excellence for Project Management
141782 -
141783 - This is a "missionery" role to develop and advise on methodology and
141784 - to promote use of project management. ref OF 5 8994
141785 -
141786 - Sprint uses a "Center of Competence." ref OF 5 8994
141787 -
141788 -     Should contact Bill DeHart on how this is helping their project
141789 -     with Bechtel.
141790 -
141791 -        [On 971021 letter to Bill. ref SDS 35 0660.]
141792 -
141793 -        [On 971111 called Sprint's University of Excellence to follow
141794 -        up, ref SDS 36 0000.]
141795 -
141796 -        [On 980630 case study in PMJ on Atlantic Bell using a project
141797 -        office called Project Management Center of Excellence. see at
141798 -        ref SDS 37 0633]
141799 -
141800 - Sue Guthrie spearheads IBM "Center of Excellence" aimed at "raising
141801 - organizational competence and changing the maturity level of the
141802 - entity." ref OF 5 8994
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SUBJECTS
Authority, Leadership, Project Management
Project Office

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160501 -  ..
160502 - Program Office
160503 - Project Management Program Office (PMPO)
160504 -
160505 - Dinsmore says a Program Office does the stuff listed for a Project
160506 - Office and a Center for Excellence,.., ref OF 5 0020, plus, it has
160507 - power and authority for projects, and supports functional departments
160508 - on smaller projects, ref OF 5 0218
160509 -
160510 - A Program Office is headed by a Vice President or Director of
160511 - Projects. ref OF 5 5055
160512 -
160513 -    This, however, does not address the crucial point about the
160514 -    exercise of power and authority to support Communication Metrics
160515 -    for effective project management, as set out in analysis on 970525
160516 -    of prior articles. ref SDS 30 5883
160517 -
160518 - Pete Devlin, heads the U.S. Department of Energy and has 260 projects
160519 - under management by a Program Office. ref OF 5 5065.
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SUBJECTS
Project Office,
Overhead Managers are Unproductive
Calculate Risk Management Exposure NPV

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200602 - Cost/Benefit Overhead Expense Project Office
200603 -
200604 - Follow up ref SDS 30 5882.
200605 -
200606 - Dinsmore does not offer a cost benefit analysis of Project Management.
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200608 -
200609 -