Dimensions for Project Success

Enabled by the Sponsor / P3M

Relationship

Agenda• Literature Review

• Resource Method

• Transformational Role

between Sponsor and P3M

• Standards

• Dimensions

• Implications

Resource Method

• Grounded Study

• Initial Study

• Qualtrics Survey

• Likert Analysis

• Cronbach Alpha

Literature Review

• Autonomy

• Authority

• Control – Costing

• In Service

• Trust

• Voice of the PM

Sponsor Role

• Ownership

• Process Control

• System Interface

• Authority

• Competencies

– Negotiation

– Scheduling

– Leading

– Reporting

• Ownership

– Intrepreneuer

P3M Role

Transformational Role between Sponsor and P3M

Standards

• PMBOK 2008 4th Ed.

• Impacts

• Dialectical vs. Polemic

Withdrawn PMDP

• Earned Value

• Contract Management

• Procurement Management

• Project Systems Analysis

• Quality Analysis

> 70 Percent >60 Percent >50 Percent >25 Percent < 25 percent

Project Charter Stakeholder Analysis Project Feasibility Resource Allocation Earned Value

Scope Document Project Description Historical Review PERT/CPM SPI/CPI

Other Mgmt Reports Scope Mgmt Plan Power/ Influence Team Development Project Audit

Project Plan Scope Verification Risk Mgmt Plan Change Mgmt RACI/RASIC

Team Mgmt Gantt Chart Problem Definition Make vs. Buy Resource Leveling

Information

Distribution

Document Process Actual vs. Plan Progress Payment

Project Schedule WBS Lessons Learned Control Mgmt

Decision Making Resource

Redistribution

Quality Mgmt

SOW Project Mgmt System Procurement Mgmt

Project Prioritization

SWOT

Systems Thinking

PMO

Socio-Cultural

Withdrawn PMDP’s < 25 percent

Dimensions

Dimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

1 Team Leadership and Development

Power and influence

Project leadership

Team management

Team development

Information distribution

Problem definition

Decision-making process

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Dimensions

It is necessary for the project leader to convince the sponsor and project

team that he or she has control of the processes and project deliverables.

DimensionsDimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

2 Project Deliverables

Risk management plan

Project plan

Lesson learned

Document management

Project charter

Stakeholder analysis

Feasibility analysis

Historical review

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The sponsor and project manager must define what procedures and reports

will be appropriate for the project.

Dimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

3 Resource Alignment

Resource allocation

Other management reports

Resource redistribution

Prioritizing projects

SWOT

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Dimensions

Understanding the underlining resource issues is essential for the project

manager who enters into a contract with the sponsor in order to understand the

strength, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities of resource analysis.

Dimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

4 Scope Management

Scope document

Project description

Scope management plan

Scope sign-off

Statement of work

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Dimensions

Understanding the key elements that inform the project’s purpose or opportunity

will allow the project manager more insight into stakeholders wants,

organizational issues, approaches to project execution, and preliminary project

requirements.

Dimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

5 Change

Change control

Change management

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Dimensions

Change control is not, however, change management, which consists of the

stages of acceptance predicated on a change. For a project to move

smoothly, the sponsor and project managers must understand that people do

not come to a project with the same agendas and needs.

Dimensions

Dimension # Title and Items Cronbach

Alpha

6 Network Insight

CPM/Pert

Gantt

Plan variance

WBS

Project schedule

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Dimensions

Many projects appear to be managed well, yet still come in over budget, time,

and scope. Creating a usable WBS requires knowledge of the underlining

process being managed by a project

Implications

• Not all PMDPs seen relevant by practitioners

• Strong relationship needed between Sponsor

and P3M

• Follow on studies

– Process vs. project outcomes

– P3M

– Domestic vs. International