The Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Announces John Schlichter as the Keynote Speaker for the International Project Management Leadership Conference 2005

QAI is pleased to announce that organization development and project management guru John Schlichter is the keynote speaker for the Annual Project Management Leadership Conference 2005 in Bangalore, India, May 13 – 19. The Annual International Project Management Leadership Conference is a unique forum for exchanging, learning, and accelerating implementation of best practices in the domain of Project Management. The purpose of this conference has been to promote the existence, implementation, and importance of the required essentials for achieving market leadership and performance excellence for the project and the organization.

‘OPM3®: The CMM for Assessing & Developing Project Management Capabilities to Achieve Strategic Intent’
John Schlichter, OPM3® Program Manager

The Project Management Institute’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) emphasizes two things:

1. Choosing the right projects to execute organizational strategies, and
2. Implementing the processes, structures, and behaviors necessary to deliver projects successfully, consistently, and predictably.
This discipline is called Organizational Project Management or OPM. The OPM3 standard describes excellence in these two areas in terms of roadmaps from lesser to more advanced capabilities that can be assessed. Through an assessment using this standard, an organization's current profile or level of maturity is identified, as well as the next steps toward becoming more capable.

In this presentation by the original Program Manager of the PMI OPM3 Program and the pioneer of Organizational Project Management, you will learn what OPM3 is and the essential considerations for using it to assess and improve your organization’s ability to deliver projects successfully, consistently, and predictably.

Meet John Schlicter
John Schlichter, President of OPM Experts, has lead the largest standards development initiative ever undertaken by PMI®, in order to develop a standard in Organizational Project Management for industry & government. The resulting PMI® OPM3® (Organizational Project Management Maturity Model) is an international standard for assessing & developing project management, program management, & portfolio management capabilities. He is credited with being one of the world's foremost experts in the standard's content & application. He was a member of the PMI® Standards Committee, a member of the PMI® Standards Member Advisory Group, & co-founder of the PMI® Metrics Special Interest Group. He has implemented Project Management Offices (PMO's) for multiple Fortune companies, facilitated large-scale organizational change, designed & led comprehensive training programs, personally managed multi-million dollar technology projects, & been a mentor to all levels of management including C-level personnel.