Business Project Management
Traditionally projects have principally focused on constructing “things”, be it a building or a machine. Although highly complex and amazing feats in their own right the results were quite predictable: whether it was a bridge or a machine that was being created. It was possible to understand the problem being solved, produce blueprint designs, undertake pilots, test and ultimately implement them. Business projects don’t tend to fit that mode.
The upsurge in project management adoption in the last 15 years has been linked to the growth of the UK Government best practice models (notably PRINCE2®) which was largely targeted at improving the quality of IT projects. The disciplines of traditional project management were adapted and applied to IT (in PRINCE2®) highly successfully, and reduced the failure rates of technology projects. Within PRINCE2® the concept of product based planning is central to control, therefore, by definition, there is an expectancy that you will be able to describe what you are going to build at the outset, business projects don’t tend to be that predictable.
We believe that business project management is a genre that the traditional “hard” project techniques do not always work for, in reality, business projects are more akin to micro programmes.
We have developed our own business project management framework, called Aspire Fusion which takes the best practice from project and programme management, removes much of the jargon, and outlines a 6 stage project delivery lifecycle that reflects the increased ambiguity and the need to demonstrate the value of the investment.
f you think we can help, contact us on either enquiries@aspireeurope.com or enquiries@aspireapac.com – whichever is closer.
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