It’s the acronym that stands for “Operations Order”, and an Operations Order is used as the plan for performing military missions.
And since military missions are temporary endeavors undertaken to produce unique goods, services, results, or capabilities, they’re “projects”. Which means the person leading the mission team are conducting projects, using project plans.
Which means these Non-Commissioned Officers (“NCOs”) and Junior Military Officers (“JMOs”) have significant amounts of project management experience.
That’s why we started Vets2PM; to help military veterans become project managers in the CIVDIV.
Because they are.
And can achieve Post-Military Prosperity with their PMP project management certification through us. Just like the other 14+K military veterans we’ve helped do that.
During the past nine years, I’ve reviewed over ten thousand PMP exam applications. And more specifically, a hundred or so applications that were selected for audit, producing comments from the auditor. These comments usually focus on “show us more leading and directing cross-functional project teams” or “show us less operational
At least on projects, it’s “scope”. And it’s what we in the project management biz call a “project objective”. The other “project objectives” are “schedule”, “budget” (of resources), and “quality”. These answer the questions “When will that, the scope, be done?”, “How many, what type, and at what cost are
In the civilian workforce, those tasked with leading teams to accomplish work that produces unique results, goods, services, and capabilities during temporary endeavors for stakeholders are called project managers. And this very definition of a project is the same definition for a military mission; a temporary endeavor undertaken to produce
