Align Projects with Organizational Strategic Plans

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Strategic Plans
By: Essam Mohamed Lotfi

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Esam.pmp.ccp@gmail.com
rwaadpm@gmail.com
• Essam Lotfi is a Project Manager-MEP, BSc. in
Electrical Engineering, Power Distribution through
Zagazig University, Egypt since 2001. Pursued and
achieved his certificates in Project Management
(PMP®) from PMI-USA since 2013, and certificate in
Cost Management (CCP®) from AACE International
since june-2014.
• 15 years extensive hands on experience in various
aspects of projects and project management within
maintenance, power distribution networks monitoring
and supervision and construction projects as well.
• Authored, Co-Authored at PMWorld Library, PWLJ.
• Volunteered at PMI-Global Congress EMEA-2014 –
Dubai, 5th to 8th May 2014.
• Technical presentation at PMI-AGC 15th International
conference –Bahrain 19th to 21st January 2015.
• Technical presentation at 54th AACEi-SF Bay Annual
Western Winter Workshop, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA
• Technical presentation 55th AACEi-SF Bay Annual
Western Winter Workshop, Indian Wells, CA, USA
• Independent Project Management and cost
engineering/Control Instructor.

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VISIONS
MISSION
GOALS
VALUES
OBJECTIVES
STRATEGIES

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Size
Market
Share
Product
Mix

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Products
or
Services
Customers
or
Beneficiaries
Market niche

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Mission
What do we do?
S.W.O.T
Vision
Where are we going?
Strengths: Internal Drivers.
Weakness: Internal Constraints.
Opportunities: External Drivers.
Threats: External Constraints.

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Geo-economical Environment (Opportunities & Threats).
Socio-political challenges (Strengths & Weakness).
Technology & State-Of-Art.

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Feasibility
study/Economical
models for
selection and
prioritizing critetia.
Strategic decisions
to implement the
final selection of the
project.
Resource
availability study
and market demand
analysis to enable
the executive to set
the strategic timing
to stratup.
Projects Screening
and identifications
according to the
need of the project
entire the
organization.

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Persistence to change (refer to change management).
Entire organizations unwritten rules and politics that have
significant impacts on the project success and people as well.
The limitation of resource pools due to pursuing many
projects simultaneously.

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What will be the procedures that could be used to eliminate
the effect of unwritten rules and politics entire the
organization?
What is the organizational resource pools capacity and
capabilities that will be allocated for the prioritized projects?
What is the consistent level of the organizational prioritizing
and selection processes?

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Discriminating the critical projects easily through the project
priority lists.
Practical and effective management of the portfolio through
balancing the resource allocation between projects.
Effective utilization of organizational resource pool.
Effective planning of available resources.

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Project Selection
method
Benefit measurement
methods (Comparative
approach)
Murder board
Peer review
Scoring models
Economic models
Constrained
optimization methods
(Mathematical
approach)
Linear programming
Integer programming
Dynamic
programming
Multi-objective
programming

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Economic
models
Present value
Net present
value
Internal rate of
return
Payback period
Cost benefit
analysis

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Asymptotic Analysis Accept Decline
Budget and Resource available for the project √
Strategic alignments are available for the project. Budget and
Resources are available.
√
Strategic alignments are available for the project. Budget and
Resources are not available.
√
Strategic alignments are available for the project. Budget is
available, but resources not. Outsourcing is required.
√ √
The project can run faster than others and is strongly aligned
with the organizational strategic plans.
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•Projects selection and prioritizing is the most important approach
for any organization’s senior management.
•It enables them to take the right decision to select the right project
that fits the organizational strategic plans.
•It enables the executives to effectively mange the projects and
resources as well.
•Every organization should have its own and eternal selection and
prioritizing criteria that achieves the desired goal by applying the
Project management body of knowledge processes.
•Tools and techniques, and effective project/program management
starts with the successful project selection and prioritizing which
effectively results in a balanced portfolio that achieve balance
between opportunities and threats and effective resource pool
utilization.

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