Are you just about to launch an important project or need to get one back on track? Have you completed a project and want to learn from the experience? Our tailored project kick-off, recovery and lessons learned consultancy can help you.

Engage us to run focused & practical workshops, undertake an assessment as your critical friend and provide real-world guidance, learnings and advice. We work with your project team, sponsor and stakeholders tailoring our approach to align with your exact needs and current PPM maturity.

Each engagement is unique but typical characterised by:

Delivered by one of our most senior PPM Consultants
A defined short term 1-3 day engagement
Clearly agreed deliverables
Workshops with stakeholders, 1-2-1 or as a group
Concise, practical report
Presentation to senior management
Actionable outputs & tangible benefits

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Project Kick-off

Kick-off your project or programme in the right way. Our practical short-term engagement will be focused around clearly defined workshops & outputs. Typical project kick-off activities include:

We’ll help you define scope & deliverables.
We’ll run planning workshops to define tasks, dependencies & timelines.
We’ll use the CARS Matrix to help define roles & responsibilities & educate on how to create an effective team.
We’ll run a risk management workshop conduct stakeholder management mapping & help you define a communications plan.
We’ll drive you to define project governance & change management processes
We’ll establish your project progress cycle and Status Reporting.

Project Recovery

Does your business critical project or programme need to get back on track? We’ll conduct a focused assessment of your project status & PPM maturity, providing practical recommendations and a clear path forward. There are many reasons why a project might be under pressure but typically include:

Poor scope management & benefits definition
Lack of clarity around roles & responsibilities and an ineffective team
Poor estimating & planning
Poor progress management
Lack of honesty around status KPIs
Lack of sponsorship
Poor communication

Project Lessons Learned

You’ve completed a project or reached a key milestone. Its important to learn from this experience, recognising what went well and what could be improved. Conducting fair & thorough Lessons Learned is an investment in future project success. Let us work as your critical friend, conducting workshops and 1-2-1 sessions to assess and report Lessons Learned with practical recommendations for the future.

Assess project documentation
Conduct 1-2-1 interviews with key stakeholders
Conduct team Lessons Learned Workshops
Report on practical, actionable lessons learnt, often both as a report and presentation to senior management