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Spring School 2007 - Project Lifecycle
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Topics |
Speaker |
| Tues 06 Mar 2007 |
Gateway Reviews
The opening session will review and discuss Project Gateway Reviews as implemented by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
The OGC website states
that the OGC Gateway process provides assurance and support for senior responsible owners (SRO) in discharging their
responsibilities to achieve their business aims by ensuring that:
- the best available skills and experience are deployed on the programme or project
- all the stakeholders covered by the programme/project fully understand the programme/project status and the issues involved
- there is assurance that the programme/project can progress successfully to the next stage of development or implementation
- more realistic time and cost targets are achieved for programmes and projects
- knowledge and skills among government staff are improved through participation in review teams
- advice and guidance to programme and project teams are provided by fellow practitioners
The OGC Gateway Process meets the requirements of the Gershon Report on government procurement
and the Cabinet Office report Successful IT: Modernising Government in Action.
The process has been recently refreshed, and this presentation will
examine the revised process and also look at its value to organisations
and the rapid growth of interest in the UK and world-wide.
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Peter Johnson.
Office of Government Commerce
Peter became a project manager in mid-career in the Royal Navy and
practised this profession in IT and business change in the UK and in the
USA with NATO. On leaving the navy, Peter worked in PM consultancy and
training and (amongst many other things) creating a PRINCE2 training
capability for his employer, and a broader training capability for MOD
at Defence Procurement Management Training - then his client - where he
also taught what is now known as 'Smart Acquisition'.
Peter has been at OGC for almost four years where he originally managed
the PPM specialism project and he now oversees the delivery of
PRINCE2™, MSP and M_o_R® and the ITIL® products and services
through OGC's commercial partners. He is an active OGC Gateway™
reviewer and he regularly promotes OGC's Best Management Practice,
liaising with professional bodies and standards organisations on his
core subjects of professional development and PPM |
| Tues 13 Mar 2007 |
Risk Management
This session will review and discuss Project Risk Management.
Risk Management is a key to successful projects, few projects however manage the threats - the result
is failed projects, missed business objectives, stressed-out project managers, burnt-out teams and damaged careers.
Find out how to reduce the risk on your next project to zero in just 4 steps. You will learn why managing risk is essential to
delivering on time, why most risk management plans are useless and the simple steps you need to take to create the perfect risk management plan.
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Bryan Barrow
Perfect Project Risk Management Limited.
Bryan Barrow is the Managing Director of
Perfect Project Risk Management Limited, a consultancy that specialises in helping companies manage risks
so that they deliver on time and on budget. This allows them to get a positive return for every pound they invest in their projects. |
| Tues 20 Mar 2007 |
Benefits Realisation / Lessons Learnt
This session will review and discuss Benefits and Realisations planned for and won by successfully managed projects.
The best intentions for investment in new technologies and systems are often forgotten by the time a project is complete. This
talk will be based around the Audit Commission's approach to reviewing benefits management with particular relation to the
e-government programme in local authorities. The Commission's approach is built on the belief that effective benefits
management is rooted in sound project and programme management and must be a theme that runs through from project
inception to beyond the completion of the project.
The talk will be illustrated with examples to show the wide range of success that organisations experience in trying
to achieve and measure benefits. It will include case study material showing how benefits are identified (or not) in
business cases and will discuss identifying benefits for a range of stakeholders and differentiating between benefits
and project deliverables. It will discuss both financial and non-financial benefits, baselining, assigning responsibility
for realising benefits and ongoing monitoring.
The Audit Commission is an independent public body responsible for ensuring that public money is spent economically,
efficiently, and effectively in the areas of local government, housing, health, criminal justice and fire and rescue
services. It seeks to promote good practice with a focus on those people who need public services most.
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Steve Hancock
National Audit Office
Steve Hancock has more than 15 years experience as an IT auditor and is currently the IM&T audit lead for the
Audit Commission's London region. He is trained in PRINCE2 and Managing Successful Programmes and is a BCS member. Recent
audit assignments have included reviewing programme management for the implementation of a command, control and communication
programme at Metropolitan Police and reviews of governance, programme and project management for the NHS IT
programme (NPfIT) at SHA, PCT and Trust level.
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| Tues 27 Mar 2007 |
Real World Implementations
The final session will review and discuss one or more Real World Implementations.
The profiles of successfully delivered major change projects, how was success achieved, what benefits have been delivered,
what has the end-user experience been. Bob will examine two major changes within large government departments.
The talk will look at the through life management planning in both an Australian DOD project and a UK MoD project. In particularly how
legacy issues, transitional planning, operational priorities and advancements in technology result in programme changes in
many cases outside the direct control of the programme. It will also look at the associated issues that arise from co-ordinated
planning of the client deliverables. Finally the presentation will cover some of the wider issues associated with the delivery of
large complex CIS projects into multiple environments.
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Bob Quick
MoD, Programme Director for the MoD Defence Information Infrastructure
Bob Quick is currently the Programme Director for the MoD Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) which has responsibility for
all the Information Infrastructure on fixed sites UK and abroad, Deployed HQs and Maritime Platforms. As a secondary responsibility
Bob is Head of Profession for the civilian CIS staff within MoD. Following an aeronautical apprenticeship with the Ministry of
Defence he was involved with flight test work and aircraft project management. In the early 1990s Bob undertook a post within
the personnel area and was then made responsible for the CIS fit in the new MoD Abbey Wood development. Next came a secondment
to DoD Australia working on CIS fit in the new Canberra Defence HQ and their 50K terminal system across the continent.
The DII project is replacing numerous individual information systems throughout the MoD with a single more efficient
information infrastructure. It will allow many of the defence efficiency measures under the Defence Change Programme to be
delivered. DII will also be a component of network-enabled capability - the ability to improve the capability of the armed
forces through a single network of information announced in the Strategic Defence Review New Chapter. DII has three main
pillars termed: Current DII, Convergent DII and Future DII. Current DII involves the maintenance of existing levels of service
through current systems and services and minor enhancements required by the business. Convergent DII involves the connection
of current systems, the enabling of new services and the integration of systems; the objectives of convergence are to ensure
all resources committed on Information Infrastructure work further the aims of DII. Future DII will provide the capability
to exchange and share electronic information across Defence from foxhole to stores depot and from sensor to shooter, initially
providing a fully networked and managed service to around 70,000 desktops around the world. The scope of DII embraces all
fixed sites within the UK and abroad, Maritime Platforms and Deployed HQs. It will include Local Area Networks (LAN),
Servers, Workstations, Printers and associated software as well as messaging and core IS tool-sets. That service will
range geographically from Whitehall to forward deployed Headquarters almost anywhere in the world. In service management
terms it ranges from 24/7 cover to ordinary office hours support. The scope does not embrace Wide Area Network services
or Business Applications but DII will be responsible for deploying these. Future DII is work aimed at establishing new
commercial arrangements for the delivery of DII services across Defence and is following the Smart Acquisition processes and procedures.
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Event logistics:
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Dates: |
Four Tuesdays as above |
Time: |
19:00 (registration and refreshments available from 18:30) |
| Venue: |
Microsoft
Thames Valley Park
Reading
RG6 1WG
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| Cost: |
BCS members |
£90 (£76.60 + VAT) |
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PROMS-G members |
£110 (£93.62 + VAT) |
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Non members |
£140 (£119.15 + VAT) |
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Unwaged/Students |
£ 25 (£21.28 + VAT) |
| Bookings: |
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