Driving Project Management Life Cycle using ARIS

Hi All,

I haven't received a single response. Atleast one person in this entire community must be doing this. And if not then what exactly are  we doing with BPM working in silos.

Community members, request you to share whatever input/idea you have. It could be something really simple, or a really mind-boggling . Either way, I will appreciate.

Regards,

Deepti Lad

Deepti,

I'm not suer I got your point but I'll try to share something around this topic. I don't use exactly the PMLC as in most projects I apply PRINCE2 methodology. So, usually the first step is to create a Product Breakdown Structure for which I use product/service three model with user attribute for groupings. When the time allows each product (not all project products are deliverables) is detailed in a Product Allocation Diagram linking it with Tasks, Requirements, Documents and other objects as appropriate. Then occurrences of these task are modelled in a Project Schedule together with those project products that are deliverables. The relation (responsibilities) between tasks and team members are modelled in a Matrix Model. There are additional user defined attributes for the task status.

Then of course there are different ways to handle models lifecycle and the whole BPM/EA Governance but that's always tightly connected with the project lifecycle management.

I'm not sure that answers your question but may provoke some elaboration :)

Thanx Ivo. I appreciate your reply. I will reframe my question. Every Company(well, most of them) follow the Project Management Lifecycle & SDLC.

PMLC starts with Initiation, then Planning, Execution, Control & Closeout.

 I think BPM is related to PMLC. So, if the Project Manager drives the initiative of BPM using ARIS for the projects...Every team would be in sync and the singlle point of contact with the Project Manager & ARIS repository.

It's just that i wanted to understand how we get Project Managers to drive this initiative based on the PMLC model.

Regards,

Deepti Lad

Deepti-

You can apply PMLC but the chance of success is low. Here is why: Most of the BPM initiative involve people and culture change. They are either strategy driven, business issue driven or process driven.  Lots of foundational work needs to be done either before the project or during the project. The stake holder management and people change management are the two components need to be taken care of. In real world, you can not apply big bang project manangement  approach as it. Using a phased approach to build foundation with people, culture, process and then implement BPM project will have higher rate of success. So the bottom line is , yes you can apply PMLC but need to customize with additional components as described above. Please remember that there is no cookie cutter approach for BPM implementation. It needs to customized based on the company culture, top management support. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Vijay

Interesting discussion! On several projects we used ARIS to model project management processes of our clients. Those are then used to communicate best practices and in most cases organization policies and procedures. Having processes presented as diagrams help users to better understand them which ensures sticking to organization policies.

Subsequently we developed PRINCE2 process model in ARIS (and other formats) and made it available for download at www.arantium.com.

We use it to align project management processes with industry standards and we noticed many project managers have it printed out at their desks and use it as a quick reference tool.