Have you heard about PMBOK? In case you did not – the acronym stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge. PMBOK is a very comprehensive document that covers PM processes, procedures, methodologies and techniques promoted by Project Management Institute (PMI), a very well respected organization…
A few months ago I asked two PMs on my team to develop a road map of ensuring that offshoring relationships we have in place are indeed 100% disposable. A very aggressive goal considering a small size of our on-shore organization in particular juxtaposed to the size of our offshore operations. Almost instantly the project was nicknamed OCBOK – offshore contingency body of knowledge. Of course building a real OCBOK would take much more than two part time project managers (even exceptionally good ones) and a couple of offshore teams. So we can only start outlining its structure and put some preliminary content in a few chapters. It would be great to get it to the PMBOK level at least some approximation. To that I need all help I can find – if you have any resources / ideas / suggestions that you think could be applicable please send them my way. Feel free to comment on this post or email me at – krym2000-po@yahoo.com
In meanwhile here are a few interesting observations from writing the first chapter of OCBOK which would be called “You are more dependent than you think” –