PRINCE2™ MSP™

If you are not busy on this day there is a very exciting conference organised by the West Midland Centre of Excellence on business improvement.

It will cover three key topics:

Programme and Project Management

Business Process Improvement

Business Change Management.

Over 300 people from across the country have booked places at the event. Exhibitors will the companies that form part of the national Local Government Framework for these topics. There will be two streams of presentations and workshops plus exhibitor stands.

Aspire Europe Ltd are one of the event sponsors, and Rod Sowden will be doing a presentation on the development of the rewrite of the OGC P3M3 managament maturity model

The P3M3 rewrite is progressed well with Rod Sowden of Aspire Europe as the Lead Author. At the public sector Project Management Conference at Manchester on 12th Feb Rod delivered this presentation updating the audience on the current work and what the new version of P3M3 would look like.

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The SWCOE have re-tendered and re-awarded the contract for the delivery of programme management training to the local authorities across the South West.

There are a number of monthly overview and qualification courses being offered to council staff at a subsidised rate to help with the adoption of best practice and innovative approaches. Parrallel training programmes exist for Lean Thinking and Change Management.

Aspire Europe are extremely proud to be serving our local authorities in the South West and this contract is highly valued by our team

The Aspire Europe team have started work on the strategic assessment of Network Rail Change Programme capability with a view to the adoption of Management Successful Programmes as the framework within which to build all the strategic development tools and techniques that are already in place.

Network Rail is one of the world leaders in construction project management and have a major IM programme in partnership with ATOS Origin.

Aspire Europe’s involvement in writing and experience in deploying MSP in large corporates was a deciding factor in being selected for this work.

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Aspire Europe has WON a competition in the Director magazine. The competition run by Hewlett-Packard was to find the small business who could make the best use of a server from HP. According to Phil McLean of HP (one of the judges) the Aspire submission showed that the business could use the server to support many different facets of the business and thus make a big impact on its competitive position.

The submission can be read here.

The hardware and support is worth over £5,000; so this will make a significant contribution to the business over the next year. The challemge for now is to get it installed, up and running whilst continuing to deliver MSP, PRINCE2 and Change training to our customers.

A couple of candidates on a recent 5 day course for the MSP Foundation and Practitioner exams have emailed in some feedback:

“Thank you for a great week – I hope our results do justice to your excellent training”

“Thank you for also bringing the course alive with your ‘real life’ examples.

I don’t know if I mentioned it on the feedback form; but I was impressed that you had read our respective booking forms and noticed that I had a hearing impediment and took the time to contact me to ascertain any special requirements. Sadly I have to admit I cannot remember the last time anyone did that.”

Aspire Europe have agreed to jointly sponsor the West Midlands Centre of Excellence Conference at the NEC to promote excellence in business process deliver and programme and project management.

More information can be found at the WMCOE website http://www.wmcoe.gov.uk/index.php?page=349&iID=627

We had a really nice bit of feedback from a delegate who had failed one of their MSP exams with one of our competitors - she wrote

O enjoyed your style of teaching and believe I got through because you took the time to look at where I was going wrong. I certainly wouldn’t have approached the exam in the same way without your input and advice.

The course delegates delivered by Aspire Europe in Warsaw in November, in collaboration with CRM, has just had their new style Practioner exam results back for the new MSP07 material - and the gained an amazing 100% pass rate.

Fantastic effort - congratulations from everyone at Aspire Europe

Aspire Europe Ltd are very pleased to have been offered the ITT to bid for the supply of long and short term project staff to the police authority for the next 5 years. We believe strongly in the concept of public sector organisations using local suppliers in the interests of economic and environmental sustainability - which makes this a particularly pleasing achievement.

Now for the big test - winning the contract