So what really is the difference between Project, Programme and Portfolio Management? Read on to see the services we offer for each.
We provide experienced, high quality, pragmatic project management (PM), PM support and project controls specialists who deliver practical results.
Our Project Management Services include:
- Organisation: Structured responses to setting up a Project and establishing the required Governance.
- Business Case: how to establish an optimum mix of information about the programme’s benefits, costs, risks and timescales used to judge whether or not the programme is (and remains) desirable, viable and achievable.
- Quality Management: ensure all aspects of the Project are appropriate and fit for purpose.
- Risk Management: the approach to risk management and how the processes will be applied across the project.
- Planning and Control: the integration of the various governance strategies and plans to provide the project control regime including progress reporting.
- Change Management: the approach to change and issue management and how the processes will be applied across the project.
Our Programme Management Services include:
- Organisation: Structured responses to setting up a Programme and establishing the required Governance.
- Vision: Linking to the Strategy and Portfolio Pillar work, understanding the purpose of the Programme.
- Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement: Establishing how the Programme will interact with involved people and the communications approach.
- Benefits Realisation Management: How to identify, define, track and optimise the realisation of benefits (and dis-benefits).
- Blueprint Design and Delivery: Develop the Blueprint, a model of the operational capability that will need to be put in place to enable the required outcomes and benefits. The Blueprint comprises the current, intermediate and target end state of the key aspects of the business operations.
- Planning and Control: the integration of the various governance strategies and plans to produce a programme plan and a control regime including progress reporting.
- Business Case: how to establish an optimum mix of information about the programme’s benefits, costs, risks and timescales used to judge whether or not the programme is (and remains) desirable, viable and achievable.
- Risk Management and Issue Resolution: the approach to risk and issues management and how the processes will be applied across the programme, its projects, its transition activities and operational areas that will undergo change.
- Quality Management: ensure all aspects of the Programme are appropriate and fit for purpose.
Our Portfolio Services include:
- Analysis of your business context and strategic intent.
- Development of investment options.
- Categorisation and prioritisation methods.
- Decision making support to help you balance your portfolio.
- Scoping and planning of portfolio activities to get them ‘ready for delivery’.
- Portfolio delivery management and monitoring.
