{"id":114,"date":"2009-08-17T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.projectp.com\/weblog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-11-28T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:31:24","slug":"what-is-opm3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/2009\/08\/17\/what-is-opm3\/","title":{"rendered":"What is OPM3?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPM3\u00ae (Organization Project Management Maturity Model) is a Project Management Institute\u00ae (PMI) standard much like the PMBOK\u00ae Guide that was started in 1998 by PMI.<\/p>\n<p>The OPM3 standard consists of three major elements: Knowledge, Assessment &amp; Improvement, which are described below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knowledge<\/strong>: The user becomes proficient in OPM3, the body of Best Practices, the ideas of organizational project management maturity, and the methodology of OPM3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assessment<\/strong>: The organization compares itself to OPM3 Best Practices to determine its current location on a continuum of organizational project management maturity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improvement<\/strong>: Change Initiatives leading to increased maturity can use the assessment results as a basis for planning and moving forward to implement the plan while conserving precious organizational resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPM3 Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Advance strategic goals<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OPM3 provides a way to advance an organization\u2019s strategic goals through the application of project management principles and practices, bridging the gap between strategy and individual projects<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Understand and implement Best Practices<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OPM3 provides a comprehensive body of knowledge regarding what constitutes Best Practices within organizational project management to identify the maturity<\/p>\n<p>OPM3 assists an organization with the identification of what their current organizational project management maturity is and, thus, forms a basis for deciding whether or not to pursue improvements by Stage and Domain<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Plan improvement activities<\/span><\/p>\n<p>OPM3 assists organizations with prioritizing and planning activities should improvement decisions be made<\/p>\n<p><strong>In summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OPM3 is a powerful tool that organizations can use to improve their organizational project management maturity and hence the execution of their projects and achieve the organization&#8217;s strategic objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPM3\u00ae (Organization Project Management Maturity Model) is a Project Management Institute\u00ae (PMI) standard much like the PMBOK\u00ae Guide that was started in 1998 by PMI. The OPM3 standard consists of three major elements: Knowledge, Assessment &#038; Improvement, which are described below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-trends-standards"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projectp.com\/ppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}