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Project Management Scaling in IT Infrastructure Integration - Reducing the Overhead of Project Management
October 29, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Best Practices
Project Management Scaling in IT Infrastructure Integration - Reducing the Overhead of Project Management
By Joe Tighe
Be careful how you scale the information technology integration project management effort. You might get it.
IT Infrastructure integration efforts can be brought to a standstill by excessive project management controls.
In one mid-size enterprise organization merger, the project management office (PMO) was often a valued change agent in the IT infrastructure conversion project effort. However, the type of project management controls and processes applied were often over-scaled, overly complicated and more suited for large scale government programs. If your project management team is oversized, you can expect excessive overhead costs and staff meetings driven by junior staff members adding little value to the process. A large project management organization may offer an excellent training ground for junior staff and contract consultants however, the resulting output will often be of low quality or unusable. The overhead administrative costs relative to the size of the acquisition may be unacceptable.
By scaling the project management effort to a mid-sized acquisition, a simplified set of project controls and a much smaller project staff may be sufficient for the effort.
Project Management Scaling Strategy
The first rule of organization is to scale to fit the size of the task.
For mid-sized acquisition efforts, consider limiting the project management office staff to two or three key members. Ensure the project management staff reports to the acquiring company’s program management office. This will serve to appropriately size the integration organization to the task, provide appropriate governance and ensure alignment of the local project management teams with the acquiring company integration objectives.
Joe Tighe has managed national and international merger and acquisitions with healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, broadcast television, radio and cable television industry clients across multiple functions, including program management, information technology, order management and fulfillment, supply chain, procurement, human resources and outsourcing advisory. He has been involved in all phases of M&A projects, from strategy through implementation. His blog can be found at: http://joetighe.wordpress.com/.
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