Fresh Look: Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. Is your programme exhibiting any of these characteristics? Project issues dominate the programme board Unidentified risks start to materialise a bit too […]
Monthly archives: August 2022
Programme Management, Mountaineering and Leadership Denial
One of the interesting lessons that has intrigued us over the last year has been the role of leadership in relation to programmes. How many of you have worked on a programme where a major risk has materialised, but the programme board have been in denial? We don’t normally think of programme management and mountaineering […]
How do I develop the Project Schedule?
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 […]
Fresh Look: Planning
Fresh Look – Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. In a world of information overload it is very easy to lose sight of what matters, so this is the first […]
Managing Project Costs
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 […]
Defining Project Stages
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 […]
How do I catalogue Project Requirements?
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 […]
Planning – Back to Basics
Aspire Europe Ltd has been at the heart of developing best practice for the last 15 years as lead authors of MSP(R), P3M3(R) and a range of other books. Recent work on maturity assessments using P3M3® has shown that many organisations have a fundamental weakness when it comes to planning their changes. Based on the […]