Area of Expertise
Programme and Project Management
Helping You Deliver Successful Projects
Head of Practice
Other consultants
Summary
Most organisations manage the introduction of new processes, techniques, systems and other change through projects. The WCG Programme and Project Management Practice contains consultants with extensive experience in every aspect of project and programme management and related areas including:
- Benefits assessment and management
- Project governance and stakeholder management
- Cost and budget management
- Dependency and interface management
- Milestones planning and scheduling
- Programme and Project Support Offices
- Project management training
- Project assurance and health checks
- Project communications
- Project initiation and set up
- Risk management and mitigation
- Resource management
- Best practices for processes and controls
- Recovery of problem projects
- Progress and performance management
- Assessment of objectives and requirements
All consultants in the Practice have extensive experience in the practical management of projects of all types and complexity. Our consultants are also qualified practitioners for the key project management standards such as Prince2, PM BoK, DSDM and MSP. This allows consultants to ensure the most appropriate approaches are used to help the success of your projects.
Benefits
New projects can sometimes be difficult to establish. Our consultants can help you start up your projects correctly. We can assess requirements, identify options, develop plans and budgets as well as providing key resources to help set up the project and administrate it properly.
Using the skills and experience of our consultants, you can keep projects on track, reducing surprises, and ensuring that the projects are successfully completed, on time, to specification and within budget. Our consultants can also turnaround poor performing and problem projects, achieving successes out of failure, at any stage of the project life-cycle.
People are the heart of any project. A knowledgeable and experienced project team with supportive stakeholders can ensure the success of the project. Our consultants can help you select the best project team and help your stakeholders understand the needs of the projects.
Good communications improve the success of projects. They help stakeholders and your project teams to understand the projects and their needs. Our consultants can help to develop and implement project communications plans.
Projects can be difficult enough, without unnecessary administration. Our consultants’ knowledge of project management processes will ensure your organisation uses best practices in project management for all your projects. We do not try to impose unnecessary or over-complicated processes and systems. We can help you to implement standard project standards such as Prince2, PMP and MSP, tailoring them to the way you work as well as the needs of your projects and your customers.
Our consultants can provide independent assurance of your project. Whether you need a short health-check, or a more detailed review of your projects, our consultants can assess them objectively and provide the necessary advice to ensure they are successful.
Our consultants can also provide training and mentoring to help your staff manage their projects better. We can provide training in all the key project standards such as Prince2 MSP, PM BoK and DSDM as well as tailoring courses to your way of managing projects.