Project 6000: Analysis of PM Methodologies for Royal Defence

This project analyzes various Project Management (PM) methodologies suitable for Royal Defence, a small public sector company in the defence sector focused on educational programs. The project recommends the Scrum methodology as the most appropriate, emphasizing its agile and collaborative nature, aligning with the organization's need for flexibility and quick adaptability. The analysis covers the benefits of project management, including alignment with organizational goals, increased project success, and improved stakeholder engagement. The project also discusses the maturity level of Royal Defence, identifies limitations in current project management practices, and concludes with a recommendation for implementing Scrum to enhance development and achieve project goals. The assignment also includes references to relevant literature supporting the analysis.

PM Methodologies
Project 6000

About Royal Defence
 Founded in 2017
 Small Public Sector Company (Federal Government)
 Sector: Defence
 Industry: Education
 Headquartered in XXXX
 Locations: 3
 10 employees
 Operational Budget: USD 10 million
 Capital Budget: USD15 million

Service Offerings
 Royal Defence is responsible for:
 Planning, directing, coordinating and managing educational programs on behalf of
Department of Defence
 Professional development support to schools and/or teachers
 Appropriation of resources to various schools

Project Management Methodologies
 Agile
Incremental and Interactive process by which it holds fastest delivery of the approached project.
 Scrum
Effective collaboration of stakeholders and project development team is one of the major aspect of this method.
 Kanban
This purpose of this method is to deliver the desire project vie effective collaboration of team members.
 Six Sigma
The purpose of this method is to deliver the appropriate product to the customers as well as utilize the resources as minimum as
possible.
 Waterfall
Follows the downwards project flow.
 PMBOK
This process performs by completing 5 steps which includes Project initiation, Project Planning, Execution Phase, Observation
and testing, Termination.

Scrum PM Methodology
The most reliable and appropriated PM methodology for the approached project is
the Scrum PM Methodology, which is one of the agile project management
framework.
There are three major pillars of Scrum which are listed below:
 Transparency.
 Inspection.
 Adaption.

Process and Knowledge Areas in Scrum PM
methodology.

Contd..
Knowledge Areas of Scrum Methodology are listed below:
 The engagement of the internal and external Stakeholders- which stands to
represent the effective collaboration of the related individuals in the Royal defense
organization.
 A value driven product delivery process- stands to represent the that the project
has a significant impact towards the social and emotional values as the purpose of
this project is to enhance the education in the defense field.

Contd..
 Adaptive nature of Planning- represents that the project plan has enough capability to
incorporate additional aspects for the betterment of the project.
 Areas related to the team performance- represents that the proposed project
management methodology has the capability to utilize the employs effectively.
 Risk identification and mitigation approach- represent that in this methodology it
helps to effectively identify the problem related to the implementation of Royal
Defense and also provide effective mitigation process.

Benefits of Project Management
 Alignment of project goals to organizational goals
 Increased success rate of projects
 Project Management related skills and competence improves consistently
 Standards and templates developed can be used repeatedly for similar
projects, leading to consistency and higher efficiency
 Higher client satisfaction

Impact on organization project
 Accelerates Royal Defense business value at initial phase
 Scrum methodology ensure continuous feedback and planning which
will ensure value maximization(Jeong, et.al.,2008).
 All stakeholders interact with each other which will enhance educators’
engagement.
 educators’ engagements are critical success factors

Maturity level
Considering the fact that the
organization Royal defense
shows tendency towards
growing by timely manner.
Thus, it can be stated that the
maturity level of this
organization is level 5.

Importance of project management
The organization has the maturity level of 5. However, there is still some limitations
present related to the application of less effective project management. Those limitations
are listed below:
 Less utilization of the provided resources.
 Poor development plan.
 Scope creep
 Cost inefficiency
 Poor quality of project deliverables
 Unrealistic timelines
 Project failure