Practicus has helped hundreds of organisations across both public and private sectors to deliver successful change and benefits.
- P3M - Portfolio, Programme and Project Management
- Phasing & Project Management
- Scoping & Feasibility Studies
- Pilots & Prototyping
- Setting milestones
P3M - Portfolio, Programme and Project Management
Ensuring the Golden Thread runs through all your Ps is critical in today’s climate. There must be no overlaps, contradictions, pet projects, or excess fat in your portfolio of programmes that undermines successful cost efficient strategy delivery. We ensure that this alignment is in place and that clearly demonstrable business benefits flow from the Business Case and into the key programme management documentation. Perfect alignment is what is called for. That’s what we deliver.
Phasing & Project Management
Our planning experts can help you work through the most logical and efficient phasing of work streams and projects. Typical pitfalls are known to us and can be avoided; for example, doubling resources does not always mean halving delivery time.
We can assess existing projects and our health checks allow for re-phasing and project recovery. Our pragmatists work with you to ensure successful Outcome Delivery.
Scoping & Feasibility Studies
It is human nature to start ‘doing’ before evaluating and planning. We have undertaken numerous fixed price and time-boxed scoping and feasibility studies as a means of risk reduction prior to commitment to full programme expenditure. What is in scope, what is out of scope? How feasible is this? What are the interdependencies, single points of failure, critical gateway criteria? What lessons can we learn from elsewhere? Know what you don’t know...through study and analysis.
Pilots & Prototyping
“So let’s build a small one and then a full size one!” But first… let’s create a stakeholder environment that allows for piloting and prototyping. We will all learn together and create an enthusiasm for making the full scale programme a success. Let’s seek out the heretics and doubters and get them involved in this phase. These converts soon become your best advocates in the business.
Setting milestones
Why? Milestones enable you to understand how well you are doing. When did the project start? Is it on track? How much has been spent on it? These are all seemingly straightforward questions but none of them are answerable without proper, demonstrable milestones.
We will work with you to understand what the demonstrable milestones are and work with your staff in delivering your desired outcomes against them. We apply formal methodologies such as PRINCE2 in a pragmatic manner, helping up-skill your staff to project manage your teams.
