Raj Kalady

The presentation will cover 2 aspects. Namely the charter of PMI India office and briefly about OPM3

PMI India relationship office under the name of PMI Organization Centre India Pvt. Ltd., was established early this year in Mumbai. This is the second PMI office in India after the establishment of the service centre in Gurgaon, Delhi.

The service centre has been established to respond to the needs of the members in India while the relationship office has the charter of advocacy & outreach of Project Management in India. The relationship office has the following charter

Advocacy & Evangelism of Project Management

Organizations (focused on the following industries)
Academia
Government

Activities that will be undertaken by the relationship office will include industry specific round table, seminars, PM India congress.

Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)

It is the first standard for organizations published by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and has three, interlocking elements: Knowledge, Assessment and Improvement.

The Knowledge element describes organizational project management and organizational project management maturity. It explains why they are important and describes how organizational project management maturity can be recognized (the Capabilities and corresponding Outcomes that need to be achieved). Assessment is the procedure by which an organization can measure itself against the description of maturity in the Knowledge element, in order to gauge its organizational project management and its maturity. The Improvement element provides information to assist an organization in determining and selecting paths to navigate from its current state of maturity to a more desired state of maturity, should the organization choose to improve its current state.

Primary benefits of using OPM3 include the following:

• OPM3 provides a way to advance an organization’s strategic goals through the application of project management principles and practices. In other words, it bridges the gap between organizational strategy and individual projects.
• OPM3 provides a comprehensive body of knowledge regarding what constitutes Best Practices in organizational project management.
• By using OPM3, an organization can determine exactly which organizational project management Best Practices and Capabilities it has and has not achieved—in other words, its organizational project management maturity.
• If the organization decides to pursue improvements, OPM3 provides guidance on prioritizing and planning.

Speaker Profile:

With an experience of over 23 years in Sales, Channel Development & Marketing in IT & Education fields, Raj has held senior management position in various companies in India. Having worked as SBU head and starting up businesses for organizations, Raj brings to PMI a rich experience of project initiation, implementation and building sustained business.

In the previous assignment, Raj was the head of the Computer Based Assessments division for the Manipal Education group and successfully launched the innovative business by acquiring multiple large multi year deals and building a team to service the same.

Raj is a Bachelor of Science from the University of Delhi and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Cochin University of Science & Technology.