Who Needs PM Training?
Deborah Bigelow Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in business management and handles the operational and administrative functions of PM Solutions. Ms. Bigelow Crawford also serves as Co-CEO of the PM College®, PM Solutions' training division, where she is responsible for the fiscal management and quality assurance of all training and professional development programs. Prior to joining PM Solutions, she served as the Executive Director of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and was instrumental in providing the foundation and infrastructure for the exponential growth that the Institute has maintained over the last 10 years. In addition, she served as the Executive Director of the PMI Educational Foundation. Over the last decade, she has authored numerous articles in PM Network, Chief Project Officer, and Optimize magazines. Ms. Bigelow Crawford is also co-author of the book Project Management Essentials. She has presented a variety of papers as a speaker at international symposia and conferences, and is a member of the National Association of Female Executives and the Project Management Institute.
Leading companies share their success with training everyone in project management in a new white paper.
Project management ... it's not for everyone. Or is it?
Over the years in working with companies of all sizes, in all industries, we've found that having trained, qualified project managers is a key to bringing initiatives in on time, on budget and to specifications. There are numerous research studies that confirm this, including our PM Solutions Research study on recovering troubled projects, which found that a great project manager, even in the absence of other processes for project recovery, could work wonders.
But often, in the absence of a supportive network of peers, support staff, managers and executives who "get it," even a great project manager can run into barriers that block excellent outcomes. Especially when a major project or program impacts the bottom line, or represents future growth potential, having all the players, from the executive level to marketing and customer-facing employees, on the same page can smooth the way to success.
We asked several companies who have realized this, and implemented broad training programs, to share their rationale and their outcomes, and we were thrilled when they not only shared their successes with us, but allowed us to publish their stories. The freshly updated PM College white paper, Project Management: Not Just for Project Managers details how training sales staff, executives, R&D folks, and other roles benefits the organization as a whole. With a quick overview of the ways the discipline helps to organize tasks and people, it's a great introduction to PM concepts, as well as a powerful argument for training a variety of roles outside the "usual suspects."
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