Project Management Handbook for Government Agency
Goal
Enhance, mature, and advance the IT project management (PM) discipline for a complex government agency by providing a standard and efficient process for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing each IT project.
Challenges
- External and internal demands to reorganize from traditional IT organization to business-focused structure
- Project management staff were new or newly repositioned with little to no project management experience
- Different segments of the organization had different project management processes and tools
- Desire within the agency to mature IT project management as a discipline.
Solution
Cognitive Technologies produced an IT Project Management Guidebook which conforms to PMBOK and OPM3 best practices and provides the entire scope of IT PM processes, procedures, business rules, and documentation requirements that comprise the IT PM life cycle method.
Cognitive Value Added
- Project managers and performance engineers conducted interviews with top performers to identify best practices, barriers, and needs
- Customized practices and procedures to fit organizational goals and culture
- Documented project management processes for schedule/time management, HR management, communications, and risk management
- Identified sets of project management templates to standardize target areas.