After what we have been through with Covid we found this an interesting insight into the surprising truth about what motivates us (at home and in the office). We hope you find it interesting, enjoy!
Monthly archives: March 2021
Establishing Project Priorities
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
MSP Survival Guide for SROs – Programme Business Case
MSP Survival Guide for Senior Responsible Owners has been written specifically for you (the SRO), full of helpful advice to make your hectic life easier There are many reasons why programmes fail, but failure to grasp the scale of the change being delivered and weak leadership of the programme teams are often contributing factors. As […]
What is project stakeholder management?
In a world where everyone is giving incredibly helpful advice that most of people ignore and walk, zombie-like, into failure, rather like some of the scenarios in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so we thought it would be more fun to help speed up the process and provide you with helpful guidance on […]
Lewis Hamilton – business change manager extraordinaire
There was a radio interview last week with the Mercedes team principal explaining how Lewis Hamilton was heavily involved in the technical development and the amount of time he spent with the construction team. This has made for a great analogy for people trying to understand how the BCM role in Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) is supposed […]
Risk Management and UK Pandemic
We thought it would be interesting to put on our ‘Captain Hindsight’ hat to think about the information we have collated from recent press interviews and articles that we’ve picked up. Just for fun, we have taken the standard risk register headings and applied them to what we know now to help bring those headings to life.
DECC (now BEIS) shares its experience with P3M3® v3.0
Department for Energy and Climate Change shares its experience with P3M3® v3.0 The Department of Energy and Climate Change now BEIS) have been a client of Aspire Europe since 2009, we have been their supplier of choice for the provision of their P3M3® assessments and training services. In this official case study, DECC set’s out […]
Identifying Project Milestones
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
What is programme benefits management?
We thought it would be a good idea to revisit some of the guiding principles that underpin the world of portfolio, programme and project management. In a world of information overload, it is very easy to lose sight of what matters, so this is the first in a series of posts that we revisit to remind […]
Decision Gates – The Ultimate Challenge
Establishing control gates to support effective project and programme management is the hurdle that many organisations seeking P3M3® level 3 status struggle to overcome. We have set out the problems that we have seen organisations face and advice on how to go about implementation, click here for the article Here are five good reasons why you […]