Project Management Specialist

There will be other initiatives happening in the business alongside programmes. The adoption of MSP must bring together a number of existing elemen...

Another flavour of programmes is the nature of the programme itself. At its simplest it may be delivering some form of specialism such as construc...

There are, in fact, many different types of programme. Typical dividing lines tend to be those programmes undertaken in the public domain and those...

Here we can see some examples of the drivers for change and the consequences as a result of that change. Areas within the organization that may be...

The need for change is often a direct consequence to changes in the business environment in which the organization is working. This in turn drives...

There is a lot of confusion between the term project and programme. Very often large and complex projects are called programmes. This is a mistak...

Over the past few years there have been many well-documented examples of programme failures the vast majority of which were directly related to poo...

Programme Management is the undertaking of the actions needed to establish, manage and coordinate the activities needed to achieve the desired outc...

Programmes deliver change, usually significant business change, which tends to be carried out over fairly extensive periods of time. To achieve thi...

This shows ways in which project failure can be addressed at the highest level. We need to know the what's, why's and how's etc with any undertaki...

Failure to properly specify the desired outcome is the most common cause of failure to deliver on time and within budget. Business benefits are als...

PRINCE2 has been around for a long time and has evolved since its release in 1996 to include lessons from many projects and industry experts. It i...

Projects focus on products, or outputs, that will deliver a capability for achieving benefits. Programme management is focused on managing those b...

There are many ways to define a project. The PRINCE2 definition of a project concentrates on the key aspects of projects being temporary; the deliv...

Project Management helps to keep focus on the management of the project. This helps to ensure that timescales and budgets are met, and also provid...