Scorecards

Event Report

On Tuesday, 15th November 2006 at the BCS Centre, London, members of BCS PROMS-G and their guests, were treated to a presentation by Tina Cousins of IBM, about the use of Scorecards to plan and control programmes and projects.

Tina Cousins a Project Manager for IBM UK, Global Business Services gave a very entertaining and visually stimulating walk-through of how Scorecards provide benefits within a strategic and delivery programme environment.

Current use of Scorecards has been dominated by the business and not interlocked with a programmes strategy or delivery. Gartner’s research questioned organisations regarding achievement of business benefits and asked: “Do Programmes Deliver Benefits” the report found 75% did not deliver benefits leaving just 25% that did. Scorecards act as an aid to translating a strategy into measurable and actionable items within a programme. By taking this approach a programme will align with the strategic business objectives. Project management activities can assist the organisation to achieve strategic business objectives. This could reduce the risk of not meeting expectations, and ensure the programme is achieving the vision it set out to achieve. Communications could be improved with a full picture of a programme being provided, increased productivity by reducing the amount of effort required for reporting. See also the event report on Dashboards to see how they dovetail with Scorecards.

The slides from this event are available for download (589Kb)