Senior Consultant - RUP, PM², CMMI, COBIT, Prince2, PMI

Brussel  ‐ Onsite
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Senior Consultant - RUP, PM², CMMI, COBIT, Prince2, PMI

For a project with the European Commission in Brussels we are looking for a Senior Consultant in Project Management methodologies.

Context/Introduction and Objectives

Unit 01 of Directorate General for Informatics (DIGIT) has the following mandate:

To facilitate, in close collaboration with other units of DIGIT and the local IT teams, the implementation of the e-Commission.

This comprises:

  • The implementation of the duties of the Corporate Project Office foreseen in SEC . These duties comprise:
  • The preparation and the presidency of the Methodology, Architecture and Portfolio management working group.
  • Background work as follows:
    • Maintenance of the Enterprise IT architecture:
    • Maintain and support an information systems management and development methodology providing training and consultancy aid to the services requiring assistance.
    • Participate in the review of schémas directeur , project definitions and business cases produced by the Information Systems projects of the Commission and publish the information collected.
    • Develop and maintain a system describing the existing portfolio of information systems as well as the projects permitting its evolution. This portfolio management system will permit the sharing of the information of what systems are available and what systems are planned, hence allowing for knowledge sharing, dissemination of best practice, transparent decision making as regards the new systems to be funded and change management.
    • If requested, it may assure an assessment of the compliance of specific information systems developments to the applicable guidelines and standards.
    • The promotion and implementation, in collaboration with the horizontal services, of the conclusions of the decision SEC on interoperability.
    • The establishment and yearly update of the Commission's IT strategy, in cooperation with the horizontal services and other DIGIT units.
    • The monitoring and reporting on progress at corporate level towards an e- Commission and the promotion of best practices.
    • The identification and initiation of the required corporate actions and methods to facilitate an e-administration. This includes the elaboration and maintenance of an integration architecture permitting interoperability of information systems and the steering of the definition and implementation of the related information technology infrastructure.

To assist the DIGIT/01 Methodology, Interoperability and Architecture Section in further defining, implementing and maintaining the information system development methodology and the PM² project management methodology, the DIGIT/01 Methodology Section wishes to obtain the services of an IS Senior Consultant with special expertise in project management and IS development methodologies (RUP, PMI, PRINCE2), maturity models (CMM, CMMI) and control frameworks (COBIT)

Tasks

The service provider will provide consulting services and will contribute to the evolution and adoption of the methodology and PM² methodology. The service provider is expected to contribute to the following activities (non exhaustive list):

Methodology evolution

  • Evolution and integration of the methodology with well established project management standards like CMMI, COBIT, PRINCE2, PMI and other Commission internal methodologies.
  • Identification and incorporation of best practices related to project management and software engineering methods.
  • Dissemination of information on methodology practices in the form of articles, documents, presentations.
  • Specification of IT roles and tasks in the software engineering process within the methodology.
  • Evolution and integration of the methodology with new development techniques (such as Agile).
  • Coaching on the adoption and customisation of the methodology to practitioners.
  • Mentoring of teams that are starting with the methodology adoption.
  • Proposal of customisable adoption plans for different teams and needs.
  • Support and maintain a network of project managers that have an interest in project management
  • Coordinate and facilitate project management community of practice meetings
  • Methodology adoptionMethodology network evolution

Work environment/Conditions

The work will be carried out on the Commission's premises in Brussels. The service provider may be requested to participate in project meetings with the Commission's services in Luxembourg.

The working languages are English and French.

Start date
n.a
Duration
Minimum 6 months
From
Experis Belgium - Fujitsu
Published at
18.02.2014
Project ID:
666711
Contract type
Freelance
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