Sep11IBM Wins PMO of the Year AwardPosted at 09:36 in My Work, Project Management

The Project Management Institute's Program Management Office Specific Interest Group and PM Solutions have selected IBM's Project Management Center of Excellence as the 2010 PMO of the Year. The annual award specifically recognizes the IBM group for "creating global project management standards and enterprise-wide consistency among its 26,000 project managers worldwide; establishing a dedicated project management knowledge repository and communications network; increasing project accountability; improving time-to-market by 65 percent; and decreasing the number of troubled projects by 25 percent."

Nearly 10'000 IBM employees have obtained the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential since 1996. This was when the company launched an initiative to ensure a consistent enterprise approach to Project Management and better meet customer needs. The effort to become more projec-focused included the development of the Project Management Center of Excellence. More than 10 years later, full support from the top of the company has never wavered, and the five fundamental steps for every project advocated for by the Center of Excellence have never changed. IBM also created a worldwide Project Management method, based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and has nurtured a Project Management community to help employees find mentors, network, develop relationships, and share knowledge and intellectual capital.

IBM's Center of Excellence was selected from a field of more than 40 applicants from nearly every continent and including state and federal agencies, major nonprofit organizations and Fortune 1000 companies, and will be presented the PMO of the year award during the PMO Symposium 2010 on the 9th of November, in Dallas, Tx.

Download the PMO of the Year 2010 eBook for more information.

Comments

[Nathaniel @ project manager certification]

Congratulations to IBM for winning the PMO of the year award. As what I have read in this article, IBM is worthy for this such prestigious award.

They have been of great help in making Project Management a better use for meeting the customer's needs, expanding it's enterprise world wide and many others. Keep it up!