NETWORK PROJECT MANAGEMENT1 FedPMCoP (Federal Project and Program Management Community of Practice) Executive Summary FedPMCoP is a source for the groups of people centrally to share expertise of project and program management across the federal government overall. The issues with this project management community consists of no holistic policies and laws for program management, it is not perceived as important to government success, performance and results, there is no awareness to agency management about their responsibilities and roles in relation to projects and programs of proper management. Moreover, there is an issue of inconsistency and inadequacy while have training and development of project managers and program managers. Lastly, one more issue is of no professionalism in the community of the program managers and project managers of federal government1.It is essential to track issues for encouraging opportunitiesinprojectmanagementofFederalgovernment.Thereisapresenceof professional community helps federal program and project managers for mentoring one anotherandadvocatingfor initiativesof professionaldevelopment.Thefunctionsare performed by the Council for providing a point to speak for issues affecting the company’s program and project management development in the US federal government overall. CoPs helps in identifying such issues or gaps in processes, tools, practices, and technologies along with leveraging the community to look over the practices enhancement and uncovering solutions2.Furthermore, CoPs encourages knowledge and experience sharing as well for incorporating learned lessons into practice constantly and in actual time. Groups dealing with issues in their daily processes with complexity require high CoP for their primary resource of knowledge. Community of practice (CoP) Groups or individuals having common interest are organised as CoPs in terms of specific business or technical domain. These groups share information, work actively, and improve their skills on regular basis collaboratively for the advancement of general domain knowledge. CoPs work together in small groups of individuals for a specific time person for the development of common purpose sense along with a desire to share experience and work- related knowledge through extensive communication. The purpose of CoP is to provide practitioners a way to share best practices and tips along with providing support and asking questions with each other3.In short, CoPs depicts the purpose of sharing interest area. CoPs
NETWORK PROJECT MANAGEMENT2 provide opportunities and knowledge workers to experience mastery, autonomy, and purpose over their day-to-day tasks at the active participation level. In case of FedPMCoP, the purpose or goal provides information exchange from peer-to-peer so that no one can face the need to “reinvent the wheel”, for paying off the benefits of members over their company, and departments and agencies can be able to see commonalities while facing challenges and sharing existing resources for confronting those challenges4.Thus, CoPs contributes towards respecting each other’s unique growth capacity for the fulfilment of its purpose. There is a clearly defines meeting place which is common for sharing information, and contributing and discussion about the learning environment to enhance opportunities, problem solving and promoting innovation and learning consistently.
NETWORK PROJECT MANAGEMENT3 References x [1]Bill Brantley. (2016, November) A Community of Practice on Government Program and ProjectManagement.[Online].https://patimes.org/community-practice-government- program-project-management/ [2]PMI. (2019) Federal Project and Program Management Community of Practice (FedPM CoP)—HowSharingBestPracticesCanLeadtoSuccess.[Online]. https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/case-study/pmiaa-fedpmcop- case-study.pdf?v=78fa879c-f7d1-44c4-a86a-6eb05bf1f8ba&sc_lang_temp=en [3]Atieh Bourouni, Siamak Noori, and Mostafa Jafari, "Organizational groupings and performance in project-based organizations,"Aslib Journal of Information Management, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 156-174, 2014. [4]NicolaKelly,AndrewJohnEdkins,HedleySmyth,andEfrosyniKonstantinou, "Reinventing the role of the project manager in mobilising knowledge in construction," International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 654-673, September 2013. x