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Welcome to Outperform’s newsletter - the only Accredited Consulting Organisation licensed to consult in all of the OGC Best Practice trilogy of PRINCE2™ (projects), MSP (programmes) and M_o_R® (risk)
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In this edition:
Outperform to provide Lead Author for the PRINCE2 Refresh Project
Outperform director and PRINCE2 Registered Consultant, Andy Murray, has been appointed by OGC/TSO to be the Lead Author for the PRINCE2™ Refresh Project.
OGC and their partners TSO and APM Group initiated the consultation period in November 2006 (at the BPUG conference in Stoke). Since then numerous organisations and individuals were invited to provide feedback on their likes/dislikes of PRINCE2™ and the changes they would like to see.
Therefore Andy’s first task as Lead Author is to produce a Consultation Report summarising all the feedback received. The report will be published in June/July. It’s not too late for further contributions, so if you have a spare moment, please email your views on the following:
- 3 things you like about PRINCE2™
- 3 things you dislike
- What do you consider the essential elements (i.e. without them it would not be PRINCE2™)?
- What changes would you like to see in the next version?
Once the Consultation Report is approved, Andy will be busy working on a Scoping Document defining the proposed changes to the method. Throughout this period Andy will be keeping a blog (www.prince2author.com) to inform progress and to solicit further input on specific elements of PRINCE2™.
Middle East User Group launched – Dubai 14th June
Are you based in the Middle East and:
- want to know more about PRINCE2™, MSP and M_o_R® - the world’s most widely used methods?
- want to meet with like minded practitioners to discuss and share best practices?
- are fed up with having to travel to Europe for conferences?
If so, put 14th June in your diary.
We are pleased to be involved with the inaugural User Group meeting for the Middle East. It is taking place on 14th June at the Radisson SAS Dubai Media City Hotel.
The event includes:
- Presentation by Lead Author for the PRINCE2 refresh
- Presentation by the Lead Author for the new MSP method (to be launched in June)
- Presentation by the co-author of new M_o_R® guide which was launched in March earlier this year
- A comparison between PMI’s PMBoK® and PRINCE2™
- 3 case studies by local companies
- How to use PRINCE2 in Land Reclamation projects (Port of Rotterdam case study)
- 3 tutorials for the more advanced practitioners
- Meet 4 of the Accredited Training Organisations (ATOs) and 3 of the Accredited Consulting Organisations (ACOs)
- The inaugural AGM to establish a genuine and active User Group to ensure the event is not a one off
- A networking event into the evening….
If you’d like to adopt, share or shape the OGC best practice PPM methods, and are based in the Middle East, then this event is for you.
And it’s all free, since it is run by users for users! Register now.
Best Practice Showcase set to be best ever – London 27th June
This years Best Practice Showcase has moved to the QEII Conference Centre as visitor numbers continue to grow year on year. Attendees for this year’s event will not be disappointed:
- Meet 10 of the Accredited Consulting Organisations
- Meet 28 of the Accredited Training Organisations
- Presentations from OGC, APM Group and TSO
- Case studies from GCHQ, Welsh Assembly, Home Office, Rolls Royce and more
- 20 Seminars
- 22 ‘Birds of a Feather’ workshops
Meet some of the Outperform consulting team:
Jennifer Stapleton, MSP Registered Consultant will be hosting a ‘Birds of a Feather’ round table debate on Agile MSP.
Is ‘Agile MSP’ an oxymoron or a superfluous adjective? How can an organisation embed a formal method such as the OGC’s Managing Successful Programmes and gain the agility in their investment portfolio of programmes and projects necessary to address today’s pace of change?
Jennifer was the driving force behind DSDM, arguably the first agile method. Her work in founding the DSDM consortium and as a former Vice President of the British Computer Society resulted in her recently being cited by PMI as one of the most influential women in project management.
You can register for the Best Practice Showcase online. But hurry, you don’t want to miss out on the best event of the year.
P2MM and P3M3 Workshops – Birmingham 10th/11th July, London 12th/13th September
Our one day workshops started in March 2007. They are the first to be designed for those people responsible for portfolio, programme and project management performance or for those with a business change remit. You will learn how to apply the PRINCE2™ Maturity Model (P2MM) or the Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) as a framework for prioritising, planning and measuring your improvement initiatives.
Book now to attend the UK's first P2MM and P3M3 events which cover the whole people, processes and technology aspects of portfolio, programme and project management!
The one day workshops are great value:
- Free P2MM / P3M3 checklists (in soft copy too)
- Learn how to conduct self-assessments
- Learn how to use maturity models as a diagnostic tool
- Learn how to use maturity models to prioritise improvement initiatives
- Learn how to use maturity models to measure progress
- Free copy of the new Guide to P2MM by Andy Murray and Mike Ward
- Tuition from the authors of the Guide to P2MM
- Find out how APM Group's accreditation scheme works and determine if it is right for your organisation
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"Excellent" - Head of Projects
"First class event from Outperform, as usual" - Programme Manager
"Thanks. The checklists are really useful" - Quality Manager, PPM Centre of Excellence
"A great reminder that it's the simple things that help embed PRINCE2" - PMO Manager
“I was aware of Outperform's expertise in maturity models through Andy Murray's seminars. The workshop has provided the 'how to' needed in order initiate our maturity assessment - Head of Project Assurance
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These events are of particular significance to those organizations who wish to improve their capability in the management of portfolios, programme and projects. Specifically, the following people should attend:
- Business Change Managers
- Head of Projects/Programmes
- Portfolio Director
- Head of Centre of Excellence for Project Management
- Head of Programme/Project Office
- Programme Managers
- Quality Managers
- Consultants (Internal or External)
- Project Manager (tasked with implementing PRINCE2)
Call 0870 116 1293 or book on-line.
PMO 2007 - research into Best Practices
Are you the manager of a:
- Programme Office?
- Project Office?
- Project Support Office (PSO)?
- Programme Management Office (PMO)?
- Project Assurance Office (PAO)?
- Centre of Excellence (COE) for Project and Programme Management?
- Or perhaps something similar to the above, but with a different label?
Or perhaps you manage a Projects Group or pool of Project Managers and are thinking of setting up a PMO?
If so, we are looking for people like you to participate in a research paper into Project/Programme Offices.
There are numerous methods for managing projects and programmes that are well documented and in use (the defacto ones being PRINCE2 and MSP), but there are very few 'methods' for establishing and operating a PMO. Yet recent reports, such as the NAO report into Successful IT-enabled Change indicates a correlation between the presence of a PMO and successful projects/programmes. In deed, most maturity models imply the need for a PMO at level 3 maturity and demand their presence for Level 4 maturity.
It is not surprising then that when people are appointed to set up and manage a PMO, they may find themselves asking:
- What's the typical remit of a PMO?
- What are the range of remits (setting standards, facilitating, training, monitoring, administration, compliance, etc)?
- How big/small should it be?
- What sort of skills are required?
- What tools can help?
- Should it be responsible for governance? If so, how?
- What do other PMO managers worry about? What improvements are other PMO managers planning?
- What is the value of a PMO? How can we measure whether a PMO is providing value?
- Am I doing the right thing?
These are some of the questions covered by a study being undertaken by David Milnes and his research team in Q2 2007. Outperform are one a number of sponsors assisting with the study - into an area of Project and Programme management that is becoming increasingly important for organisations to get the most from their PPM investments - which we hope will become an annual survey.
If you manage such 'offices' then we would welcome your input to the study. All participants will gain early access to the research findings which will otherwise be generally available in Autumn 2007. If you would like to participate in the study, please register your interest.
Acknowledgements
PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.
P2MM is part of the OGC’s Successful Delivery Toolkit™. The toolkit is a Crown Copyright Value Added product developed, owned and published by the Office of Government Commerce.
M_o_R ® is a Registered Trade Mark and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.