IPMA Project Excellence Award: One Way to Best Practices in Project Management Amin Saidoun, Executive Director of IPMA Ryadh, 28 April 2015 1 Agenda International Project Management Association in short Best practices with the IPMA model for Project Excellence The assessment process 2 1
IPMA in short World s first international project management association (1965) First with role-based, competenceassessed certifications in PM IPMA standards leading the way for individuals, projects & organisations IPMA focuses on competence-based education, training & development Awards for Project Excellence International events & networking istock Roots and History of Project Excellence Awards 1980`s USA - Malcolm Baldrige Award TQM Award 1992 Europe EFQM Business Excellence Model, TQM European Foundation for Quality Management 1996 Germany GPM* EFQM Model re-designed to PEM 1997 Germany GPM first Project Management Award for excellent Project Performance Project Excellence Model 2001 IPMA First Training of IPMA PM Award Assessors since 2002 Presentations of IPMA International Project Excellence Award 4 2
Objectives of the IPMA International PE Award IPMA annually awards project management prizes to project teams that achieve, and can prove, great feats in project management. Through the Awards IPMA supports professional project management as a way to achieve greatness and best practices and IPMA identifies projects that are qualified to be examples of excellent project management. 5 Award Categorisation 6 3
Levels of the IPMA International Project Excellence Award Level 1 Gold (max. one per category) Level 2 Silver (can be more than one per category) Level 3 Bronze (can be more than one per category) Striving for excellence (non-finalists) 7 Award Winners The Highest International Honours for Excellent Project Performance and Results The IPMA annually awards the IPMA International Project Excellence Award to the project team that achieves the best result among the prize winners and who is therefore the most successful international representative of project management. 8 4
Winner 2013 SIVECO Romania SA, Optimizing the Educational Process in Line with the Knowledge Based Society Competencies IPMA Project Excellence Awards Winner 2012 Sberbank of Russia Basic Product Winner 2011 GE Oil & Gas - Contractual Services, Italy Qatar Modular Replacement Thales Opthronique S.A.S., France BELLA Laser System, South Australian Water Corporation, Australia with Adelaide Desalination Project PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical Company, China Guangxi Petrochemical Company 10 MMT Refinery Project, Winner 2010 CNOOC Huizhou Refinery, China CNOOC Huizhou Refinery Project Siemens, Germany Velaro RUS Winner 2007 Jiangsu Sopo (Group) Co. Ltd., China Technological Revamping Project of 150,000 t/a Acetic Acid Winner 2004 T-Systems Spain Open Administration of Cataluña 9 Winner 2009 Siemens, China Beijing T3 Airport Expansion Project Petrom, Romania Well Modernisation Program Winners 2006 Chinese Academy of Space Technology Shenzou 6-Manned Spaceship T-Systems International, Germany Project: TDN REWE IP-VPN 2 Winner 2003 UBS AG IT Wrap Program Winner 2008 Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA, Italy Lomellina 2 Project Winner 2005 NTPC Ltd. India Simhadri Power Project Winner 2002 Fluor Daniel B.V. ROG AOP-II Project Winners and Prize Winners 10 5
Introduction to the Project Excellence Model 11 Basic Values of the IPMA Project Excellence Model Origin: Total Quality Management Process and results are assessed Customer orientation Employee development and participation Trust, openness, empowerment Partnership with suppliers Trust, openness, cooperation Leadership quality Social responsibility and sustainability Process-orientation and further development of processes Innovation Result orientation 12 6
Criteria 1-5 Project Management 1. Project Objectives How the project formulates, develops, checks and realises its objectives based on extensive information about the demands of its parties involved. 2. Leadership How the behaviour of all managers of and within the project inspires, supports and promotes Project Excellence. 3. People How project team members are involved and how their potential is seen and used 4. Resources How existing resources are used effectively and efficiently 5. Processes How important processes within the project are identified, checked and changed, if necessary 13 Assessment of criteria 1-5: Based on Deming PDCA Cycle Implement change in large scale or try again Act Plan Plan a change (do a test) to improve quality Study the result Check Do Implement the change in small scale 14 7
Criteria 6-9 Results 6. Customer Results What the project achieves concerning customer expectations and satisfaction. 7. People Results What the project achieves concerning expectations and satisfaction of the employees involved. 8. Results of other Parties involved What the project achieves concerning expectations and satisfaction of other interested parties. 9. Key Performance and Project Results What the project achieves concerning the intended project results. 15 The IPMA Assessment Model for Project Excellence 16 8
Max. Points per Criterion 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 140 140 180 180 40 20 80 70 70 80 60 0 Project Objective Leadership People Resources Processes Customer Results People Results Results of Key other parties Performance Involved and Project Results 17 Benefits of Project Assessment Teams can measure where they stand on the way to best practices Teams work out their strengths and improvement potential of project work. Teams create possibilities for comparison with other project teams (Project Benchmarking). Organisations establish a base for optimising future project work. 18 9
Assessment process steps and dates 19 The way to the IPMA International Project Excellence Award (2014) Level 1 Gold Winner Level 3 Level 2 Silver Winners Bronze Winners (30.09) 2nd Jury meeting decision on: - Finalists and levels - Non-finalists (striving for excellence) (26.07) Site visit Assessor Teams assess and re-score project performance on-site (23-25.06) 1st kick off Jury meeting additional questions to assessors (14.06) Team virtual meeting getting common understanding of the project (1.06) Individual Assessment by Award Assessors (19 May) Applicants submit Application report (5 May) 20 10
4 Key messages 1. Best practices in PM can be acquired by applying for the IPMA Project Excellence Award 2. The project excellence criteria of the award are clearly defined in an excellence baseline 3. To achieve best practices, the project management is as important as the achieved results 4. The IPMA award does not only reward the project member, the project team or the company but it leverages the reputation of a country as a whole on an international basis 21 THANK YOU! 22 11