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MANAGING PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL 11-3

Project management
100
Business process
management 80 Program management
60
in the POC
40
20 Assurance of the
Personnel management 0 management quality of a
in the POC project or a program

Assignment of a project or a
Organisational design of
program
the POC
Project portfolio-coordination
and project networking
FIGURE 11.1 The maturity model mm-poc based on Roland Gareis’ Management of
®
the Project-Oriented Company .

● The existence of the profession project manager in the organization, expressed, for
instance, in role descriptions for project manager and other project management person-
nel, in a project management career path, and in competency profiles for project manage-
ment personnel.
● Recruiting and release of project and program management personnel and application
of adequate methods such as, for instance, analysis of individual project management
competencies, assessment centers for project managers, and provision of temporary
and permanent contract relationships.
● Leadership of project and program management personnel, including performance of per-
manent leadership functions such as manager of an expert pool or temporary leadership
functions such as project manger or program manager. Specific for the project-oriented
company is that a person often has multiple role functions.
● Specific project incentive systems, for instance, individual project incentives and team
incentives.

● Development of project and program management personnel, including planning of
development, training, and evaluation of project management training.
● Project management competencies of project and program management personnel and
other managers in the project-oriented company.
● Organizational design and responsibility for personnel management.

THE PROFESSION OF PROJECT MANAGER AS A BASIS FOR
COMPETENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL

The Profession Project Manager
The demand for establishment of the profession of project manager is based on the
demand for professional project managers in project-oriented companies. Not only have
construction, engineering, and information technology (IT) companies that perform
external projects for customers established the role of project manager, but nowadays