P3M Environment
This hand-drawn document provides an overview of the P3M environment.
PRINCE2 Process Overview
This document provides an overview of the basic components of the PRINCE2® process.
MSP Process Overview
This document provides an overview of the basic components of the MSP® process.
MoP Reference Guide
This quick reference provides an outline of the basic components of the MoP® framework.
MSP – Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement, Communication
I was travelling South to deliver an MSP course one early Spring morning on the train, enjoying a cup of East Midlands Trains tea, as I had done the previous week. It was unusual for me to have two consecutive weeks in the same geographical area; delivering the same training assignment for different ATO’s...
MSP – Planning and Control
I was travelling South to deliver an MSP course one early Spring morning on the train, enjoying a cup of East Midlands Trains tea, gazing out at the passing countryside and squinting against the glare of the bright sunshine - the sun is low in early Spring time and seems far brighter than in the Summer months.
P3O (Portfolio, Programme, Project Office)
I was travelling one evening on the train when I became aware of an ‘extended family’ sat across the aisle from me. There was a young boy travelling with his father, grandfather and great grandfather and I couldn’t help but notice how at ease in conversation; the young boy was with each of them.
Ocean’s Eleven
I was travelling home one evening on the train when I noticed the passenger next to me watching the film Oceans Eleven on his iPad and remembering the plot, having watched it numerous times in the past, I thought how poignant, having just finished the first day of a PRINCE2 course I was delivering.
Meetings
As a great admirer of John Cleese and having countless years of management experience, it is little wonder that for my first attempt at joining the blogging community, I should choose ‘Meetings, bloody meetings’ for an article.
Leadership
Leadership is the ability to establish vision and direction, to influence and align others towards a common purpose, and to empower and inspire people to achieve programme or project success. It enables the programme or project to proceed in an environment of change and uncertainty.
The Delphi Technique
Estimates are required, to varying degrees of accuracy, at all stages of the project life cycle. The estimate is a crucial part of the project process, and the key to producing a good estimate, is quality of information...
Basic Rules for Estimating
Estimates are required, to varying degrees of accuracy, at all stages of the project life cycle. The estimate is a crucial part of the project process, and the key to producing a good estimate, is quality of information...
Reasons Why Project Management Matters
Have you watched the BBC Apprentice show? Each week, the candidates fight to be Project Manager in the hope that it’s their time to shine and impress Lord Sugar and each week as the task evolves, sparks fly, bad decisions are made and the projects generally fail...
3 Step Approach to Prioritising your Projects
Too Many Projects? … Prioritise Them! Does your organization have more projects than it can handle? It’s easy for smart, creative people to generate lots of good ideas for projects. And soon, if you’re not careful, you can easily have more projects going than you have people, time, and money to complete them. When your list of pending projects becomes overwhelming, you’ve got to figure out how to sort...
Forced Ranking
The forced ranking technique assists in determining the relative weighting of various strategies or business drivers in a portfolio model by comparing the relative importance of each driver against the other drivers. It can be useful where strategies or business drivers across different parts of an organization appear not to be connected to each other. The process should be undertaken with the group of senior...
Key Project Manager Actions and Results
Some Key Project Manager Actions and their impact in terms of results. There are twenty key actions organized according to their support of the five essential project management lifecycle phases: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling and Closing...
Lessons Learned Agenda
Objective
To gather valuable lessons learned from the project team
Management Dashboard Technique
What is the objective of Management Dashboards?
The objective of the Management Dashboard technique is to provide key decision support information across a portfolio using highlights […]
Planning Agenda
Planning workshop agenda
Objective
To put in place a high-level plan of deliverables, deliverable flow and dependencies
Prioritization
What does a Prioritization Model provide?
A prioritization model provides a decision support tool to assist senior management (such as a Portfolio Board) to prioritize those […]
Project Health Check Questions
Health Check Questions
Senior Management (ask a typical senior manager who has a current or recent interest in a project)
Please rate each of the following statements […]
Project Health Checks
Overview:
‘Health checks’ are one method to assess quality that can be designed to focus on all or some elements of the programme / project scope. […]
Project Portfolio Management
What is Project Portfolio Management?
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a management process designed to help an organization acquire and view information about all of its […]
Project Start Up Agenda
Project start-up workshop agenda
Objectives
To formally launch the project.
To ensure a common understanding of the project purpose, organization structure, roles and
responsibilities, methods and work practices […]
Project Status Reporting – Swim-lane Technique
Swim-lane Overview
The objectives of business process swim-lanes are to develop standardized business processes, ensuring appropriate linkages (often across multiple divisions or business units within an […]
Projects – The Critical Path Method
A guide to the Critical Path method
Critical Path Overview
Project managers are expected to hit the ground running, being responsible for their own and the project […]
Risk Agenda
Risk workshop agenda
Objectives
To identify and assess the threats and opportunities that may affect the delivery of this project.
To ensure that key risks have an appropriate […]