PPM Process Development

Your anxiety

You recognise that programme and project management (PPM) as a capability area is fundamental to successful strategy translation. The challenge you face is a lack of ability to deliver consistently - using a common methodology and language. Every project in your organisation is currently done differently and it is impossible to transfer lessons learned and develop the discipline. You’re beginning to realise that if a practice can’t be repeated it can’t be improved, with the attendant risk that your projects continue to under-deliver.

How we can help you

Recognising that PPM is a complex area, our approach is to meet the challenge with a multi-dimensional response. There are many that advocate the latest enterprise-level PPM tool as the panacea product; but this is often in ignorance of the fact that tools only add value in the hands of ‘intelligent users’ who can derive benefit from them. The core components of our approach are:

• A carefully tailored PPM framework used across the business – backed up by an intranet resource consisting of detailed web pages and management products
  (e.g. reference guidelines, control templates, completed examples etc.)
• Clarification of programme and project governance structures including the formation of appropriate approval boards across the business
• Design and initial delivery of supporting training
• Establishment of multiple support forums to ensure that the business maintains post-project momentum and manages the benefits realisation process.

How we would work with you

We typically advise our clients to establish a joint project team consisting of a small number of consultants working in close collaboration with staff members. This is pivotal to our approach, it ensures that the business is proactive in terms of refining the solution and driving business change; it also facilitates knowledge and skills transfer.

We also strongly advocate a very tight project discipline around any engagement. This point would be stating the obvious if it were not for the fact that many similar initiatives do not utilise the very disciplines they seek to promote.

Tools & training we can provide

Central to Moorhouse Consulting’s services in this area is our internally developed PPM framework, known as “MAPP”. We use MAPP ourselves to manage our own projects for clients, and a derivation of the same tool is available to clients as a conveniently packaged methodology which can be readily rolled out
where none already exists.

At its core MAPP is a suite of resources such as reference documents, product templates, assessments etc, augmented by a configurable standard training package, all of which is MSP and PRINCE2 compliant.

How this could deliver value for you

PPM process capability improvement should be seen as the essential ‘enabling platform’ on which an organisation can really move forward. As the resultant business change continues to embed, further benefits in terms of ‘delivering more of the right projects well’ will be realised. As a very conservative estimate,
previous organisations have evaluated these benefits in terms of £m/annum saved through faster project delivery, focus on benefits management and a reduced dependency on external PPM skills (cost reduction).

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If you would like to talk to us call on the number below. Alternatively, click on the consultants email address, provide us with your details and we will call you back. We look forward to speaking to you. Contact: Email: Tel: Dom Moorhouse dommoorhouse@moorhouseconsulting.com +44 (0) 1225 446 313