tailieunhanh - Creating the project office 24

Creating the project office 24. This is a book about improving organizational performance by implementing a project office system that develops project management as a core competency and thus adds value to the organization. A project office consists of a team dedicated to improving the practice of project management in the organization. The improvement in organizational performance is achieved by obtaining more value from projects, making project management a standard management practice, and then moving the organization toward the enterprise project management concept | 208 Creating the Project Office area during start-up the results showed lots of work to do. Some fixes were implemented through focused training and dialogue on weak areas and then reassessed later in the year. One could make this a lifetime of work but they do not have the time so they plan to use awareness of these issues as a selective measurement for continuous improvement. Results The tremendous progress achieved since February 1999 includes the following achievements Kept the construction program going through the seventy-nine-day Kosovo air campaign March-June 99 Received final approval of the program and organizational plan 24 May Met planned initial operating date 1 July Completed a 6 million runway restoration project in just thirty-two days AugustSeptember 1999 which was necessitated by operational considerations and the possibility of a Balkans follow-on air campaign Opened a 13 million 150 000-square-foot commissary and base exchange that is now the standard for worldwide consolidated stores for the military services November 2000 Won numerous design awards Successfully recovered when three construction contractors were terminated for nonperformance reprocuring the work in record time LaGassey describes the PMO as self-actualizing. He adds Team members feel great about what they are doing the responsibilities they have and their contributions to the program. Our reputation in the Air Force goes all the way to the Chief of Staff in Washington . We ve got applicant lists a mile long of people who want to come to work here. We ve had a number of our people stolen off with promotion offers. One Italian engineer who had been with us only ten months was hired away at four times his current salary to run the infrastructure effort at Bologna airport. He was one of seventy applicants. He was told his Aviano 2000 experience pushed him to the top of the list. Two sponsors in a row Lt. Gen. Mike Short who successfully ran the Kosovo war from Aviano and Lt. Gen.