What is the Blue Line?
The 'Blue Line' is a tool that helps you visualise how well your organisation is positioned to run projects successfully.
It's a plot of a generalised level of your project management (PM) capabilities, against your company size, and/or the number of projects ('portfolio size) that you are running right now.
At it's most straightforward, where these points intersect, are you on the line?
An organisation on this line is in perfect balance - where the capabilities have developed to best facilitate delivery of any project or a portfolio of projects. These capabilities need to change as the size of the organisation changes as well as with evolving context.
However, we’ve seen many companies that don’t have this balance right. Small organisations may struggle if they don’t evolve to stay on the line. Equally, others may set over-ambitious goals for sophistication, when ‘good’ is perfectly adequate.
What do we mean by project management capabilities?
If you have experience working in a large company's project management office (PMO), you may well be able to develop a rounded view of the PM capability level of your...