2003 Project World

CITI ran two seminars at this prestigious event. The first was led by Principal Consultant Peter Collin who was joined by CITI Client Neil Morse from Lloyds TSB, who described his experiences of developing project manager capability.

The second seminar was led by Christopher Worsley who was joined by CITI Client John Curtis from Tesco Stores who described his experiences of developing a benefits realisation plan.

What is the right project management development framework for your organisation?

The factor that most underpins success in projects is the ability of the project manager. If you have to choose a person to run your project, which attributes should you look for most and in what: experience, skill, knowledge or attitude? Or are there other, more important factors to consider?

In this session, the research undertaken by CITI to establish exactly what impact project professionalism, domain knowledge and experience has on creating organisational development frameworks is discussed. At the end of the seminar delegates will: 

• Know what a well-constructed development framework should encompass to ensure success 
• Understand the tools required to address the development of experience, skill and knowledge 
• Know how to integrate external qualifications into a development approach to return business value.

Programme management – vision to realised benefits

Projects deliver products, sponsors deliver benefits. Connecting the two is a perennial concern. Much of the problem, in our experience, is due to the poor articulation of the benefit case. So many business cases have detailed cost analyses of projects whose benefits are barely grasped and rarely defined in ways that make their realisation achievable. To move the vision from a dream there are a number clear and definite steps that can be done and should be done.

At the end of the seminar delegates will know how to:

• Be clear about benefits 
• Assess the risk to a benefit
• Distinguish between good impacts (changes) and valuable benefits 
• Develop a benefits realisation plan