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.
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
