After half a decade of development PMI's® OPM3® is finally here, and it is the next big thing for achieving organizational strategies through projects, the team-based vehicles for delivering change. It is just as important as (yet more strategic than) the PMI's® Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the world's de facto standard in project management from the world's largest professional organization dedicated to project management. Developed by hundreds of practitioners in industry and government over the past five years, the OPM3® is a standard that explains excellent business practices emphasizing two things:

- Choosing the right projects to execute organizational strategies
- Implementing the processes, structures, and behaviors necessary to
deliver projects successfully, consistently, and predictably.

This discipline is called Organizational Project Management or OPM.
The OPM3® standard describes excellence in these two areas in terms of roadmaps from lesser to more advanced capabilities that can be assessed.

Through an assessment using this standard, an organization's current profile or level of maturity is identified, as well as the next steps toward becoming more capable.

In this 3-day workshop attendees receive instruction on how to use PMI's® OPM3® Standard.

The primary objective is to learn what the PMI® OPM3® Standard is and how to use it to perform a maturity assessment. For this purpose, we will examine the following concepts and topics:

• Maturity Models
• Organizational Project Management
• Structure of OPM3® Standard
• Best Practices
• Capabilities, Outcomes, Key Performance Indicators
• Process Capability
• Supporting Areas
• OPM3® Cycle
• Stakeholders
• Assumptions and Constraints
• Maturity Levels
• Key Definitions
• Assessment Process
• Possible Assessment Scenario
• Planning and Implementing Improvements
• Sequencing Work
• Hypothetical Assessment and Exercises

The schedule for presenting, discussing, and working with these concepts
occurs over a period of three days and adapts to the dynamics within the
group of workshop participants in order to create the best learning
experience.

Day 01

- Theory of Organizational Project Management
- OPM3® model - Structure, Best Practices, Outcomes, Key Performance Indicators, Metrics, dependencies
- Domains of Project and Program and Portfolio Management
- Levels of Standardization and Measurement and Control and Continuous Improvement, and the implementation process.
- The overall process for using OPM3® is demonstrated and discussed.
- Essential definitions and model characteristics
- Pitfalls for misinterpreting these definitions and characteristics are identified.
- Learn how OPM3® is scaleable and flexible, allowing you to use only the parts that are most relevant to your own organization.

Day 02

- Assessment process in more detail - both a High Level Assessment and Capability Assessment
- Explanation of what to do with assessment results in order to make a corresponding Capability Development Plan.
- Alternative ways to start an assessment, how to scope an assessment correctly, ways to create a shared consensus regarding an assessed organization's existing practices quickly, and how to develop recommendations.

Day 03

- Case study that walks all delegates through the
Assessment Process within an example company.
- Attendees may follow the case study as though the example company is your own organization/client.
- Learn how to facilitate decisions regarding how to use a subset of the OPM3®, focusing on those areas that are most important.
- Learn how to translate jargon into meaningful questions.
- Learn to compile assessment results, identify outliers, interpret false-positive results, and present findings correctly.