International Project

Management Standards
Miles Shepherd
Chairman
ISO Technical Committee 258

Agenda
Background to Standards

Role of standards in projects

Standards development
Current progress with ISO 21500
Future Plans
Conclusions

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Purpose of ISO
Standards
make the development, manufacturing and supply of
products and services more efficient, safer and
cleaner
facilitate trade between countries and make it fairer
provide governments with a technical base for health,
safety and environmental legislation, and conformity
assessment
share technological advances and good management
practice
disseminate innovation
safeguard consumers, and users in general, of
products and services
make life simpler by providing solutions to common
problems
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Definitions:
According to the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary, a standard is:
1. A required level of quality or attainment
2. Something used as a measure, norm or
model in comparative evaluations
3. A tune or song of established popularity
4. Military or ceremonial flag
5. Something used or accepted as normal
or average
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Agenda
Background to Standards

Role of standards in projects

Standards development
Current progress with ISO 21500
Future Plans
Conclusions

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Standardisation Bodies

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Who has PM Standards?

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PMI Standards

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Certification Standards

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APM Publications

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Agenda
Background to Standards
Role of standards in projects

Standards development
Current progress with ISO 21500
Future Plans
Conclusions

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ISO in Brief (2011)

163 national members (98% of World GNI,
97% of World population)
110 member bodies, 43 correspondent, 10 subscribers
124 developing countries, 38 developed

Over 600 organisations in liaison

More than 18,600 standards in use (1.300
issued in 2010)
3,335 technical bodies, 224 active TCs,
100,000 experts
Central Secretariat in Geneva: 154 FTE staf
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Main Players

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Country

Participat
ion

United Kingdom
France
Germany
Republic of Korea
Peoples Republic of
China
Romania
Japan
Italy
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Poland

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727
721
713
711
693
684
667
644

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ISO Principles
Consensus
The views of all interests are taken into account:
manufacturers, vendors and users, consumer
groups, testing laboratories, governments,
engineering professions and research
organizations.

Industry wide
Global solutions to satisfy industries and
customers worldwide.

Voluntary
International standardisation is market driven and
therefore based on voluntary involvement of all
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interests in the market-place.

Development of an ISO
deliverable

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Development Phases
Need identified
New work item
Technical Scope established

Technical development
Detailed development of specification
Consensus building

Formal Approval
Draft International Standard
Final Draft International Standard
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Agenda
Background to Standards
Role of standards in projects
Standards development

Current progress with ISO

21500
Future Plans
Conclusions
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ISO 21500
General Purpose
Establishes an overarching guideline
for project management with related
terminology and defined processes:
can be referenced by the global project
management, any type of organization
Does not provide a detailed definition of all
aspects of project management
Intended to be used in conjunction with
existing and future sector, national and
international standards
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Development of ISO 21500

Based upon other standards
Developed in three Working Groups
Terminology
Processes
Supporting Information
Consensus based
Several staged review process
Country voting on document
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PC 236 Current Status

Event

DIS plenary

DIS date

January 2012

Creation of final draft

Submit to ISO for FDIS (up to 18
months after DIS allowed)

March 2012

ISO processing, NB vote, ISO

preparation for publication

March
August 2012

21500 publication, PC closed (up

to 6 months after FDIS allowed)

September
2012

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Agenda

Background to Standards
Role of standards in projects
Standards development
Current progress with ISO 21500

Future Plans
Conclusions

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Committee Structure
Project Committee 236 formed to
develop single standard on Project
Management (ISO 21500) in 2012,
has handed over to:
Technical Committee 258 formed
to develop a family of standards in
the area of project, programme and
portfolio management
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Current status of PM Committees

PC236
ISO 21500 approved at DIS stage; comments
addressed at meeting in Paris, February
Expected publication 4Q2012
TC258
First meeting June 2011; next meeting in
February
Started business plan and work plan
First work items expected to start Spring
2012
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ISO 21500 - Content

Clause 1 Scope
Clause 2 Terms and Definitions
Clause 3 Concepts
Clause 4 Project Management
Processes
Annex A Process group processes
mapped to subject groups
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Clause 3 PM Concepts
3.1 General
3.2 Project
3.3 Project management
3.4 Organizational strategy and projects
3.5 Project environment
3.6 Project governance
3.7 Projects and operations
3.8 Stakeholders and project organization
3.9 Competencies of project personnel
3.10 Project life cycle
3.11 Project constraints
3.12 Relationship between project management
concepts and processes
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Clause 4 PM Processes
4.1 Project management process
application
4.2 Process groups and subject
groups
4.3 Processes

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Problems of
Standardization

What to standardise
Gaining consensus
Language issues
National priorities
Industry issues
Professional Issues

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and finally,
Contact:
miles.shepherd@msp-ltd.co.uk
Questions?

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