Congratulations to Scottish Water

Well done to our customers at Scottish Water – 100% pass rate on their recent Principles of Change Management course – all that hard work paid off

Department for Transport select Aspire Europe

Aspire Europe have been selected by the UK Department of Transport ot undertake their P3M3 review and support the development of their improvement roadmap

Aspire Europe Managing Director Rod Sowden “this is a great appointment for us, we are excited about working with one of the leading programme and project management organisations in teh world”

 

Aspire APAC lead P3M3 review of Queensland Government

Queensland Government CIO has commissioned a P3M3 reivew of all the ICT operations in government.

A panel of 4 consultancies were chosen to undertake the reviews.

Aspire Asia Pacific were chose to undertake the lions share, with reviews of 6 organisations.  We were also selected to lead the work to review the assessments and support he QGCIO to develop the cross government improvement roadmap work

We are very proud to be working so closely with the Queensland Government and it’s agencies

 

P3M3 up for review

As with all the OGC products, they are under continual review and the current public release of P3M3 is coming up to 4 years old now.

If you have used it and feel you have useful feedback, why not contribute ?

There is a public comment/issues log available at

http://www.p3m3-officialsite.com/P3M3Model/P3M3-Model-Review.aspx

 

P3M3 Case Study

We came across this P3M3 case study the other day that we thought our clients might be interested in.

Building NHS Capability using P3M3® Case Study

As the leading P3M3 company in the world, Aspire has access to the biggest database of results covering organisations as far afield as UK, New Zealand and China. In 2012 we have already delivered 12 assessments and have more planned.

If you are considering a maturity assessment why not get in touch with us to discuss it

 

Align Toolkit – the best practice methodology

The Align Toolkit is a unique concept.

 It takes the Managing Successful Programmes framework and turns it into a methodology that is more prescriptive and for people new to programme management, much easier to use.

Developed by Rod Sowden, the guy who was the lead author of MSP 2007 and 2011, this includes the guidance, hints and tips that the manual format couldn’t cope with.

Please take time to look at the Align Toolkit Product Overview if you would like a user trail please let us know, the Align Demo User Guide provides you with an overview of how simple the system is to use compared to a manual.

We also have a PRINCE2 version to partner with the MSP product

If you would like to have a user trial please let us know at enquiries@asireeurope.com

Alternative definitions for programme and project management

We have been doing work in a number of organisations in the last few months, and it has become noticeable to us that the traditional definitions of project and programme management that have been developed by various bodies tend to be a bit wordy and not that applicable to different genres, for example, business projects.

So here are our current Aspire definitions and we hope you find them useful

“A project  is an initiative that will deliver a change in the capability of the organisation and is aligned to the achievement of a business objective”

Definitions of programme management are even more convoluted if you look at PMI or MSP, so here is the Aspire cut down version.

“A programme  is an initiative that will deliver  one or more elements of the corporate plan by delivering structure change through projects and achieves benefits for the organisation”

Keep an eye out for our next newsletter where we will discuss these in more detail