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Commonwealth Adopts Consistent
Framework for Managing Projects
"Built from the Ground Up - Supported From
the Top Down!"
Office of Consulting and Project Management
Governor's Office for Technology
Driven by
an understanding that the Commonwealth must develop a discipline
in project management that assures project success or risk compromising
financial and business goals, the Governor's Office for Technology
chartered a Project Management Framework Initiative (Initiative)
to address this issue. The goal of the Initiative was to align
business initiatives with strategic goals and objectives using
a structured Project Management Methodology to be implemented
as a standard for use by all Commonwealth agencies. As a result
of the Initiative, the Enterprise Project Management Framework
(Framework) has been developed and recently approved as an Enterprise
Project Management Standard for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Responsibility for the development of the Framework resided within
two dynamic teams that were formed to research industry "best
practices" and then take the "best of the best"
to form the Framework. The Core Team, consisting of the staff
of GOT's Division of Project Office and Integration, functioned
as the facilitators of the Project. The Process Improvement Team
(PIT), made up of Project Managers from GOT's Office of Consulting
and Project Management (OCPM) and other GOT offices, along with
key individuals representing a cross-section of Executive Agencies
throughout the Commonwealth, were responsible for developing "from
the ground up" the processes and deliverables that make up
the Framework.
The Framework is easily adaptable to meet the unique requirements
of IT projects of all types, regardless of size, complexity, scope,
visibility and risk throughout the Commonwealth and establishes
a structured business discipline to manage IT projects across
the Commonwealth.
Some of the expected benefits to the Commonwealth from the deployment
of the Framework are:
- Increased
control of project scope, risk, cost and schedule
- Adaptable,
scalable processes that meet the unique requirements of projects
of all types, regardless of complexity, scope, visibility and
risk
- Repeatable
processes that we all recognize and come to expect on any project
- Measures
of project success that represent the intended business goals
and objectives
- Improved
project accountability through established project roles and
responsibilities
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