Standards Based Project Management

Every client I work with has unique measurable attributes given their business sector, and they in turn have customer relationships which provide valuable experiences that we have worked together to assess via post-mortem walk throughs and reviews. The value add for this type of task is not to enforce a standard rigidly on any enterprise, but to tailor it subtlety to achieve the baselined project management objectives and goals as evidenced in the original project charter without hindering either the enterprise values or culture. The primary standards I often advise my customers to implement include but are not limited to:

· Project Management Institute (PMI) – Organizational Project Management Maturity Model, (OPM3),

· PMI Portfolio Management Standard, version 2,

· Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge (a de facto standard derived from the membership’s best practices and lessons learned)

· ISO 9000 Quality management system in production environments,

· ISO 9001 Quality management,

· ISO 10006 Quality management – Guidelines to quality in project management,

· ISO 9126 - Software quality model

· ISO 10007 Quality management – Guidelines for configuration management

· ISO 15288 Systems engineering – System life cycle processes

· ISO/IEC 17799 Information technology: Code of practice for information security management

· ISO/IEC 20000:2005 IT Service Management System (based on BS15000)

· Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL version 3)