Building Project Management Centers of Excellence

Preface

In my book, Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management (Amacom, NY, 1998), I gave the tongue-in-cheek title "Oh Give Me a Home" to the chapter about project offices. Here's why I used that title. In my consulting and training experiences, I have observed that most organizations do not have a common reference point for project methodologies, tools, and training. They also lack an "ambassador-ship" or spot for generating advocacy on the topic, similar to practices generally used for Total Quality programs popular in the 1980s.

Building Project Management Centers of Excellence presents a compelling argument for establishing such a "home" for project management at the highest levels within an organization. Dennis Bolles argues that ...