Project Management Complexity Standards. The Situation in Russia
Project Management Complexity Standards.
Recently I learned about Crawford-Ishikura Factor Table for Evaluating Roles (CIFTER). I like this approach to relative comparisson of project complexity. I have tried to work with other models, but found them either too cumbersome for practical use, or too complicated to explain to stakeholders. This approach is intuitive, easy to explain, and quick to perform (especially when ranking a portfolio of projects). But let me explain a little bit the history of CIFTER.
The standards, oriented for execution or results evaluation are rather new in project management, though they’ve been widely used in Australia and New Zeland. A few years ago, as project management has become a more widely used management approach, both public and private sector entities have become interested in standards that describe levels of acceptable workplace performance. This standard wasn’t supposed to compete with existing standards, better to complete them. PM Professional Associations, government standards and qualifications agencies and industry from across the globe have agreed to work together to develop a framework of Global Performance Based Standards for Project Management Personnel (GPBSPMP). The aim is to develop a globally agreed standards framework that would facilitate global recognition and transferability of qualifications. This will provide significant benefit to individuals, to global corporations and to all those operating in today’s global business environment. The CIFTER has become a result of collaboration and is used for evaluating Project Management Difficulty Factor. It is simple and independent from any practical demands, in other words, we need to see the result of manager’s work and we don’t bother the methods he uses to achieves this – with the help of trainings, university courses, reading books or in any other way.
In Russia there is a tendency to adopt Western techniques, but in the sphere of standards the situation is more complicated. The most Russian project managers seek for standards, which describe the best world management practice. They want to be told when, how and what should they do, what kind of documents they should use ect. But I hope it is a temporal “desease”.
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