Programme office support

Most organisations have many projects in flight at any time. Most of the time there are more projects than resources. As business complexity rises, it becomes more difficult to determine which projects must enjoy higher priority.  And it becomes more critical that those projects that are selected, are executed to success (to avoid opportunity costs).

Not only is it important to execute each project well (read more about our Project delivery assurance here) is just as important to manage all active and the organisation’s project pipeline well.

What we have learned is that to manage many projects concurrently other techniques are required than pure project management, simply because most of the challenges that impact simultaneous projects are not managed at individual silos. The challenges that we typically find are:

• Inability to select the best candidates from a large pool of projects
• Many projects are active, but delivery is poor
• Project team members are dedicated and able, but projects remain stuck
• Poor incentive structures to promote project delivery
• Lack of skills to manage and execute projects
• Moral is low and role players are negative and critical
• Political conflict at senior levels cause contention at project levels

NUE provides insights and tools to optimise your project portfolio and can help with simple, effective  techniques to deliver multiple projects at the same time. It involves not only structuring each project correctly, but it looks at the wider organisation that must enable the delivery of the projects.

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Offering

• Project portfolio assessment, prioritisation and optimisation (selecting the most beneficial projects whilst aligning to company strategies)
• Resources allocation to enable possibility of success
• Simple project delivery methodologies and templates
• Mentoring and coaching
• Aligning the larger organisation to enable project success