{"id":2821,"date":"2009-07-29T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:30:49","slug":"earth-worthy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Earth-worthy projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"earth-transparent\"<\/p>\n

There is a Green Wave sweeping the country – and the planet.\u00a0 Have project managers – the very people<\/em> who will institute<\/em> green projects – missed the boat<\/strong>?\u00a0 Do they realize that there are ‘green’ things they can do even if their project doesn’t have a single wind turbine or carbon scrubber in it?\u00a0 We’re wondering how many project managers consider the environment in their projects.\u00a0 In fact we have just started a LinkedIn Poll on the subject, you can start out your reading of this blog by temporarily exiting it, voting<\/em>, and then coming back<\/em>.\u00a0 For you linear thinkers this can also be viewed as a good opportunity to practice some nonlinear activities.\u00a0 Voting will take 5 seconds or less.\u00a0 It will be even quicker if you are already logged into LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

Here is the link:\u00a0 http:\/\/polls.linkedin.com\/p\/49729\/tqusk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for your vote.\u00a0 You did<\/span><\/strong> vote, right?\u00a0 Well, welcome back.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the greenality™ of your PMO, and by default, your projects?\u00a0 Greenality <\/span>(a word we’ve coined over here at EarthPM – check wikipedia <\/a>and\u00a0UrbanDictionary<\/a>) \u00a0is the degree to which a project has considered environmental (green) factors that affect a project during the entire project life cycle.\u00a0 It is critical for those with PMOs that they approach greenality from an overarching viewpoint.\u00a0 The PMO is where the \u201cbuck starts\u201d.\u00a0 There is power there to manage project management resources and project resources across the organization.\u00a0 It is also a place where greenality coaching takes place to verify that all project managers are environmentally aware.\u00a0 The PMO is – or has the potential to be – the greenality policymaking body and sets the standard for their project management community, larger organization, and their business in general.\u00a0 If you have no PMO…that doesn’t mean you are exempt – you should still read on…
\nInitiating<\/strong> a Project<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Have you, as a project manager, your PMO, and your larger organization adopted the 5 Assertions of EarthPM<\/a>?\u00a0 See below.<\/p>\n

\"FiveAssertions\"<\/p>\n

Is there a green commitment in your <\/em>Project Charter template? <\/strong> Project Managers should be putting a greenality statement in their Project Charter, identifying up front<\/span> that they intend for their project to be carbon-neutral, or at least to acknowledge environmental impact(s) and set clearly-stated environmental objectives for the project.\u00a0 An example would be, \u201cI (we) the undersigned request that the project manager use all means necessary to insure that the project processes and product reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible.\u00a0 If, however, it is not possible to reduce the carbon footprint on parts of the project or the product, I (we) hereby authorize the purchase of carbon offsets to be included in the project budget.\u00a0 Additionally, I (we) request that environmental impacts and mitigation strategies be included in with the project\u2019s risks.\u201d<\/em> By including a statement like this in the Project Charter Template, indicates that the organization truly acknowledged its commitment to being as eco-friendly as possible.<\/p>\n

Have you considered the full set of stakeholders – including those who will be effected by the PRODUCT of your project <\/span>– during intitiation?\u00a0 This is critical, whether your project is of an environmental nature or not.<\/p>\n

At EarthPM we have already been pushing the PMI to incorporate environmental concerns into both new editions of the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsiblity as well as adding and modifying processes for the 5th Edition PMBOK(R) Guide.<\/p>\n

If this interests you, please check out our site, http:\/\/earthpm.com<\/a> .\u00a0 We will be continuing a series of articles on the other process groups (Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing).<\/p>\n

We’d also like to leave you with a great book recommendation: Green To Gold<\/em>, by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you thought about the environment in your projects? Yes, even if you have NO wind turbines, solar cells, or cars that run on used french-fry oil in your project. Have you? Well, consider this posting as a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,9,27,1],"tags":[618,244,619,620,621,825,622],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-goals","category-risk-management","category-training-certification","category-miscellaneous","tag-earth","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-green-wave","tag-initiation","tag-reddit","tag-right"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14282,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/14282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}