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Introduction

The project work environment within the Office of the CIO and the Ohio State University customers is dynamic and fast-paced. Our projects must deal with dynamic business scenarios and sometimes unclear customer requirements. It is the Project Manager's job to manage uncertainty and change in a manner that does not negatively affect the outcome of their projects. The OSU CIO Project Management Framework was built to make the Project Manager's job a little easier. This framework contains activity definitions, guidelines, and templates for the various project management activities undertaken to deliver successful projects. Our methodology provides:

• A common language.
• More effective and efficient project management.
• Monitoring of progress against pre-determined metrics.
• An ability to think through the entire project before starting.
• A set of best practices over time.
• Standardized reporting.

The framework establishes common ground for all projects within the Office of the CIO. With the glossary of Project management terms, it will also ensure common terminology between the different areas of the Office of the CIO. The long-term intent is to build a project management repository to document best practices, lesssons learned, and examples of various documents that may be developed during a project.

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