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MANAGING PROJECT MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL 11-11

Further, an external analysis is performed by an assessor. The assessor undertakes one
to two hours of interviews with the project manager and analyzes the project management
documents of a real project of the project manager. In the interviews, the results of the
self-analysis are reflected and interpreted. Here, the assessor provides feedback on
whether the candidate has done a realistic, too optimistic, or too critical self-analysis.

Example: Result of the Analysis

The result can be shown for a single individual or for a group of project managers.
Figure 11.6 shows the result for a group of 12 project managers of a business unit.
The result is one spider web for the project management knowledge and another one
for project management experience. The shaded areas shown the degree of the maturity
of the project management knowledge of the particular group of project managers and
the degree of the maturity of the project management experience of the particular
group of project managers.
The area for project management knowledge is homogeneous. In this group of
project managers, there exists much knowledge in the application of methods for proj-
ect start, project coordination, and design of the project management process and
social project management competence. There is average knowledge of project con-
trol, management of a discontinuity, and project close-down. Analysis of the project
management knowledge of this group of project managers indicates that there is limited
experience in most of the dimensions.

Project Management Knowledge Project Management Experience
Project start process Project start process
100
100
Social project 80 Social project 80
management 60 Project coordination - management 60 Project coordination -
competence process competence 40 process
40
20 20
0 0
Designing the Project controlling-
Designing the
project management Project controlling- project management process
process process process

Project close -down Resolution of a Project closedown Resolution of a project
-
process project discontinuity discontinuity
process
Project start process 60 Project start process 36
Project coordination process 76 Project coordination process 62
Project control process 56 Project control process 35
Resolution of a project discontinuity 51 Resolution of a project discontinuity 35
Project close-down process 53 Project close-down process 36
Designing the PM process 62 Designing the PM process 47
Social project management 64 Social project management 53
competence competence
PM Knowledge PM Experience
0–19 None 0–19 None
20–39 Low 20–39 Low
40–59 Average 40–59 Average
60–79 Much 60–79 Much
80–100 Very much 80–100 Very much
FIGURE 11.6 Example result: Project management knowledge and experience of a group of project
managers.