Making a Proposal

To make things happen, we have to win support beside ourselves. We need to create a proposal and persuade others to back it up. I will use an example proposal to to explain proposing steps that can give our ideas a high chance for success.

Idea: Build PMO consortium guiding project management standardization, risk management, and resource training.

Persuade ourselves first. If we don’t believe in the ideas, we can’t persuade others. We need to be emotional readiness that truly believe what we will tell others. 

Data: Total project manager with turnover rate , current standard adoption rate. 

Give details. We can use the NRSL framework for four steps "Need, Root, Solution, Loss". 

• Need: need, do we have trouble, pain, or nuisance, so that we need to take a new action or countermeasure; to solve the problem. Our project management lack of structure and process that drive high success rate. In contractor based business, the resources is dynamic. The demand for quick on boarding, formulating behavior to ensures quality control becomes more necessary. Because we lack of this consortium, the standard is not mature. The adoption rate is low. Dev team feel less demand to use programs services. Lack of process to follow, document that regulates content. Lead to risks and unstable proof project delivery, which cause a high risk to organization as a whole. 
• Root, root attribute, that is, what is the cause of this trouble, pain, and nuisance; solution: The standard lack proven practices. The is no m change management process in place frosting adoption. Lack of leadership with successful real world adoption experiencesLeadership with proven success that has knowledge and flexibility address various needs. Define easy to adoption path. Accommodated users specific project needs. Focus the practical actions than presenting format. 
• Resolution, To what extent this new action can solve the problems we are facing now; Established a change management consortium under right leadership that build and advocates PMO best practices. 
• Loss: profit and loss ratio, damage and benefit - what are the advantages, disadvantages, advantages and disadvantages of this policy. Loss: lack of structure and Gain: standaize the process. 

Address Questions. 

• Why we can’t lead by strategic team? It can, engagement will be extensive. How to resolve different opinions. (One standard, one tool, using chorus) 
• Why now? We have extensive suucess and best practices. 
• What are action plan and momentum’s. Training, adoption rate, customer feedback. 

​We can have more preparation such as data like ROI, turn to insiders, consulting ideas. We will discuss it later.