ITS PRO Ontology

Why are we putting so much focus on standardizing the project management process across the entire department?

Standardizing the project management process allows us to deliver outcomes in a repeatable and deliberate way, measure and track efforts consistently, and use data to anticipate problems early and course-correct. Ultimately, it leads to improved customer service and proven track record.

Building a project plan is not much more than:

• Identifying patterns across a body of work

• Breaking down and simplifying each pattern into further details

• Estimating details independently and in an unbiased way

• Repeating until not much more needs to be known

This process of simplifying the problem allows us to reduce the project unknowns.

There are many ways to achieve this goal. ITS has adopted a simple methodology based on breaking down a project into “what is being delivered” and “how it will be delivered”, dubbed the ITS PRO Ontology.