Strategic Project Portfolio-/ Large-Scale Project Management

PMflex: PPM CIPS has developed the new project manage­ment standard for public administration together with the BVA

The motto and objective was "Ingenious and Simple" when the Federal Office of Administration (BVA) approached Ingo König's PPM-CIPS team in the summer of 2022 with a con­sulting request to develop a uniform project management standard for public administration. To date, the pro­ject mana­gement services offered by the CC GroßPM in the BVA were mainly based on the S-O-S method for large-scale projects. However, its application presupposes a certain prior know­ledge of the basics of project management, which the majority of people who work in federal admini­stra­tion projects, lead them or are responsible for their results do not have. Further­more, the focus of the S-O-S method was on large projects, not on medium-sized or smaller projects.

In the intensive work phase between September 2022 and June 2023, PMflex - the holistic project management system - was developed by the federal administration for the federal administration. This project management system is composed of four guidelines, the so-called PMflex standard, as well as other complementary building blocks for dissemination and knowledge transfer (e.g. networks, PM knowledge pool and teaching programmes).

From Stephan Weber and Matthias Olschytzka