OPM Experts LLC and Gantthead Have Partnered to Launch OPM3 Department

September 2009 - OPM Experts LLC and Gantthead have partnered to create a virtual community for practitioners of Organizational Project Management (OPM) and users of the Project Management Institute's Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3) Standard. With 432,000 registered users, Gantthead is the largest online community of IT Project Managers. The OPM3 Department will be managed by OPM Experts LLC CEO John Schlichter. It will include free deliverables, templates, discussions, articles, and channels.

Organizational Project Management is the execution of strategies through projects, and the OPM3 Standard elaborates what OPM is as a system and how to make the system capable.

Gantthead's CEO Dave Garrett commented “It is an honor to have John Schlichter as the OPM3 Department Head and Subject Matter Expert within our online community. By leading several hundred of his colleagues in the development of the OPM3 standard for PMI, he has established himself as the leading thinker on the subject of organizational project management maturity. He takes his work very seriously and dedicates a great deal of time to developing the skills of others. Any organization looking to expand their capabilities or reach a higher maturity level would be lucky to have John working with them.”

Gantthead (http://www.gantthead.com/) provides IT Project Managers with the tools and information they need to do their work. The site offers over 3,200 how-to articles, over 1000 deliverable templates, 120 project plans, a dozen detailed development processes, and more. The site also offers access to hundreds of thousands of peers who are doing similar work via its social networking services. Gantthead also owns and operates Projects@Work, a sister publication with over 100,000 subscribers.

Gantthead is an online trade publication that dominates the IT Project Management niche. Over 432,000 members make gantthead the largest community of its kind in the world. Over 500 advertisers on the site include nearly every household name in software. It would be difficult to walk into any IT shop where large-scale projects are run and not find an enthusiastic Gantthead member.

OPM Experts LLC (http://www.opmexperts.com), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is an organizational design and project management consultancy specializing in maturity assessments and organizational capability development programs. John Schlichter, President of OPM Experts, led the development of the OPM3 Standard for industry and government on behalf of PMI, and is widely regarded as the leading authority on the content and application of the OPM3 Standard.

The Project Management Institute (http://www.pmi.org) is the global advocacy organization for the project management profession, with more than 300,000 members.