Situation
A Fortune 500 heavy equipment manufacturer had recently acquired all or part of four other equipment manufacturers. They had always stressed the importance of solid project management practices especially among their IT professionals of whom there were now 1600 because of the acquisitions. Before they could fully utilize their new IT staff they needed to know the inventory of project managers in each of the four categories that they recognized. Once they had this information and could compare it to their need for project managers by category, they could establish training and development plans to align their project manager inventory with the needs of the organization.
EII Solution
EII was asked to assess the project management skills of the IT staff and recommend development programs for each staff member. EII selected the entire staff of 1600 IT professionals. Among these 1600 professionals were several program managers, senior project managers, project managers, team leaders and individual contributors. Many of the individual contributors had previously expressed an interest in careers in project management. All 1600 staff completed a Project Manager Skill Self-Assessment.
Individual Results
In addition to being useful to the training managers and human resource managers, the individual data allowed EII to work with each interested person to develop individualized professional development plans. These plans charted a career path through the four classes of project manager type as well as the training and development needed along the way.
Group Results
The results were tabulated for several different subgroups (refer to the group report for an example of a report for a group of 20 business analysts). The reports identified skill areas for which significant training would be needed as well as skill areas where minimal training would be needed. This was invaluable to the training manager who could now make informed decisions regarding the expenditure of the training budget. It was also useful to the resource managers whose job it was to develop and deploy their staff to projects. They could identify skill areas that needed improvement for them to meet their deployment requirements.
Outcome
As a result of this program, turnover was greatly reduced and moraled improved as well. The company was able to make a successful transition to an integrated IT environment.
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