Project Management Performance Series
Agile Project Management
The APM combines the best of proven project management practices with agile methodologies aimed at embracing emergent properties and uncertainty. In business environments where the level of uncertainty and variability are increasing, understanding concrete norms, practices and behaviors that help navigate the turbulence is more important than ever. The APM survey helps you identify where you can do better and recognize your strengths across your projects.
The Project Management Performance Series
A set of validated assessments created by project management professionals aimed at improving
project outcomes across the organization through data-driven insights you can trust.
In a world characterized by constant flux, embracing proven project management practices have never
been more important. At the same time, the project management profession is evolving and embracing novel
ways of managing risk, keeping stakeholders informed, and ultimately delivering value in a predictable,
economically sound manner.
The Project Management Performance Series represents both well-established practices as well as emergent
ways of working proven especially effective in business environments characterized by volatility,
uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). By benchmarking your organization’s project management
efforts against peers and taking decisive action on the insights revealed by the validated assessments,
forward-leaning organizations can reduce risks and increase the success rate of critical projects across
the enterprise.
Sample Survey Items
Our organization learns continuously from society to make the world a better place.
The team knows which features are really used by its customers.
Our growth targets do not result in us compromising our values.
The product is designed to have a long life cycle without serious negatives occurring.
We prioritize the planet as one of the stakeholders.
The team monitors the carbon footprint of the system.
The team knows about and requests feedback on the metrics that drive the customer’s business.
The product is efficient with resource utilization both when in-use as well as while idle.
Our sustainability actions align with our marketing.
Sample Survey Items
Our organization learns continuously from society to make the world a better place.
The team knows which features are really used by its customers.
Our growth targets do not result in us compromising our values.
Jean Richardson
Teacher and Coach; Writer and Public Speaker;
Transitional/Turnaround Leader
With more than 30 years' experience in IT and high tech, Jean’s career has spanned
writing, training, QA, and functional and project management. Her fondest foci are
facilitating a work-as-path approach to individual growth across the organizational
structure and recovering red projects. Jean has designed and implemented communications
programs, managed dozens of projects, helped to assemble and led large and small
co-located and distributed teams, led process improvement initiatives,
and led professional development and education efforts for software developers in all
specialties.
Having thousands of hours of agile coaching and project leadership across government,
non-profit, and for-profit organizations to her credit, Jean’s experience and career path
have spanned both traditional and agile methods, frameworks, and cultural perspectives.
The leadership model she has evolved, Pervasive Leadership, is designed to help leaders
set a collaborative context while still meeting their own stewardship responsibilities
to the organization.
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