PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AWARD 2012
Dear Project Manager
Project Management South Africa (PMSA) cordially invites you to enter one or more of your recent projects for the Project Management Excellence (PME) Award.
As a busy project manager you will be pleased to hear that the PME award submission document is concise i.e. only 25 pages long plus a 10 page addendum. Your Project Plan would be the ideal document on which to base your submission. The PME submission and adjudication procedures conform precisely with the International Project of the Year award (POY) standards as devised by PMI in the USA. The winning Southern African project will go through to the regional competition, and if successful, can compete with the best in the world for the POY award to be announced in the USA in October/November.
The PME Award is based on the nine areas of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK): scope, time, cost, quality, communications, human resources, risk, procurement and integration.
ELIGIBILITY
Projects from everywhere in the world are encouraged to participate. PMI affiliation is not necessary. Any project
which is perceived as having effectively applied project management principles and techniques is eligible to submit for judgment providing:
- The project has an approved scope, schedule and budget.
- The project is essentially complete at the time of nomination and has been accepted as complete by the Client/Owner prior to nomination. There can be no restrictions on the use of the submitted information after the final date of submission.
- Research or development projects, which may contain proprietary or confidential, technical or commercial information, must be publicly disclosed by owner.
- The nominated project must have been successfully completed using processes and approaches consistent with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). That consistency must be clearly delineated in the submitted materials. (Note: To purchase a copy of PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, visit PMI’s Online Bookstore at www.pmibookstore.org.)
- The project itself can be located in Southern Africa.
- The project may or may not have won awards or other recognition from other professional associations.
GENERAL EVALUATION CRITERIA
- Met or exceeded Owner/Client’s needs as evidenced by a letter from the Owner/Client.
- Preferably met or improved on budget and schedule performance when compared with original established budget and schedule goals.
- Demonstrated originality and uniqueness of applied project management techniques, including innovative application of practices/methods.
- Exhibited technical aspects and advancement of the project management profession through effective application of the nine PMBOK® Knowledge Areas.
- Demonstrated complexity of the project and unusual conditions, issues, and barriers requiring special management team action and performance.
To qualify for acceptance, a project may be nominated by anyone and the Nomination Template must be used as a guide for project submission. Ten copies of the completed Nomination Template must be received by the PMSA, at 65 Westminster Avenue, Brynston or P O Box 68913, Braynston, 2021 by March 2011. The PME winner will be announced and presented with the official award at the PMSA's annual awards banquet in Johannesburg. Highly Commended certificates are awarded to runners up of merit.
A non-compulsory information meeting will be held at the Project Management South Africa (PMSA)30 November 2011, at which the Chairman of the PME adjudication panel will explain what a good submission should consist of, and the entrants have an opportunity to ask questions.
The benefits of the PME Award are expected to be considerable for you, your firm and the project driven industry in general. Get in line for some national and international publicity by entering your excellently managed project in the PME Award right now!
For more detailed information on the PME Awards email: admin@projectmanagement.org.za at Tel: +27 (0)11 257 8003 or Terry Deacon at Tel: (012) 346 6674, Fax: (011) 346 6675, or email info@projectpro.co.za
NB! If you know of others who may have a suitable project to enter the PME Award, please forward this notice to them. Thank you.
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