April 2015

It’s been a while since our last update because we have been hard at work building awareness of the Praxis Framework and developing new features for the site.

The main focus has been the development of our 360^O tool for assessing capability maturity. This is on target for testing in July and we would like to hear from anyone who would be willing to be a beta tester (please contact us on info@praxisframework.org).

The Praxis ‘Maturity 360^O’ assessment will allow users to invite managers, sponsors, team members and stakeholders to complete a set of questionnaires that are tailored to the context of the project or programme. These will be consolidated into a report that explains the levels of capability maturity achieved and what needs to be done to get to the next level.

The approach is based on the definitions of capability and maturity published by Carnegie-Mellon University in the CMMI-Dev model.

We did find time to attend the excellent APM Myth Busters Conference and Adrian Dooley presented the ‘Myth of Silver Bullets’. The idea that project management could be more effective if we stopped looking for magic solutions and paid less attention to the hype of the latest big idea, was well received. This is very much part of the ethos of the Praxis Framework.

In other news, we are very grateful to the volunteer translators co-ordinated by E-quality Italia who are making great strides in translating Praxis into Italian. Having started with the Encyclopaedia they are now working through the body of knowledge section. New Italian pages appear on both the E-Quality Italia web site and the main Praxis web site.

The 1^st May 2015 will be the first anniversary of the launch of the Praxis Framework. We set out on this journey without any specific idea of where it would take us. We simply wanted to make basic project management available to all in a way that is familiar to the ‘Wikipedia Generation’. It has been an exciting first year and our next news update will be a retrospective looking at where we’ve been plus some ideas about what the next year has in store.