Project Management Performance Series (PMPS)

Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management

by Jean Richardson

The APM combines the best of proven project management practices with agile methodologies aimed at embracing emergent properties and uncertainty. In business environments where the level of uncertainty and variability are increasing, understanding concrete norms, practices and behaviors that help navigate the turbulence is more important than ever. The APM survey helps you identify where you can do better and recognize your strengths across your projects.

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Assessments

Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management

The APM combines the best of proven project management practices with agile methodologies aimed at embracing emergent properties and uncertainty. In business environments where the level of uncertainty and variability are increasing, understanding concrete norms, practices and behaviors that help navigate the turbulence is more important than ever. The APM survey helps you identify where you can do better and recognize your strengths across your projects.

Project Performance Assessment

Project Performance Assessment

The purpose of the Project Performance Assessment is to gain insight into how well a project or program is performing in accordance with its objectives and how well it adheres proven best practices. It provides access to immediate opportunities of improvement, and it can be used at any point during the project life cycle.

Stakeholders Feedback

Stakeholders Feedback

The Stakeholders Feedback survey is an assessment focusing on capturing opinions and suggestions from the project stakeholders. This survey is normally conducted during project execution and the data gathered from the assessment can be used as part of an organization's improvement initiatives.

The Project Management Performance Series

A set of validated assessments created by project management professionals aimed at improving project outcomes across the organization through data-driven insights you can trust.
In a world characterized by constant flux, embracing proven project management practices have never been more important. At the same time, the project management profession is evolving and embracing novel ways of managing risk, keeping stakeholders informed, and ultimately delivering value in a predictable, economically sound manner.

The Project Management Performance Series represents both well-established practices as well as emergent ways of working proven especially effective in business environments characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). By benchmarking your organization's project management efforts against peers and taking decisive action on the insights revealed by the validated assessments, forward-leaning organizations can reduce risks and increase the success rate of critical projects across the enterprise.

Sample Questions

Stewardship

The project is a desirable assignment because of how people treat each other.

Collaboration

Team members are encouraged to go beyond the issues and understand each other.

Stakeholder Management

Business or market stakeholders scheduling needs have been accommodated before the change deployed.

Value Delivery

Stakeholders feel they are participants in the value delivery process through regular retrospectives and early reviews of deliverables.

Systems Awareness

The team monitors the system they sit in to minimize the likelihood of unforeseen changes that could severely harm the project.

Leadership

The project manager has demonstrated skill in helping the team mature to be less dependent on the project manager.

Context-based process

Process models that have been adopted on the project have been evaluated in the context of the team and modified to fit without losing the value they were adopted to deliver.

Quality Behaviors

Project processes are continually evaluated for efficiency, so that there is no more than sufficient process to deliver high quality outcomes to the organization.

Risk

Everyone can see a set of metrics that give a nonstatic, concise picture of risk severity and likelihood across the project.

Jean Richardson

Jean Richardson

Teacher and Coach; Writer and Public Speaker;
Transitional/Turnaround Leader

With more than 30 years' experience in IT and high tech, Jean's career has spanned writing, training, QA, and functional and project management. Her fondest foci are facilitating a work-as-path approach to individual growth across the organizational structure and recovering red projects. Jean has designed and implemented communications programs, managed dozens of projects, helped to assemble and led large and small co-located and distributed teams, led process improvement initiatives, and led professional development and education efforts for software developers in all specialties.

Having thousands of hours of agile coaching and project leadership across government, non-profit, and for-profit organizations to her credit, Jean's experience and career path have spanned both traditional and agile methods, frameworks, and cultural perspectives. The leadership model she has evolved, Pervasive Leadership, is designed to help leaders set a collaborative context while still meeting their own stewardship responsibilities to the organization.

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