Project and Programme Management

The Plot 60 Way

We believe our clients have enough to deal with without having to become technology experts too, so our approach is different, deliberately.

We work hand in hand with our clients, delivering at the coalface. Together, our collaborative style and value-led approach means our clients realise their business outcomes more quickly and with lower risk.

We follow the widely adopted PRINCE2™ structured project management method that emphasises dividing projects into manageable and controllable stages.

Project Management

Project Management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives.

A Project is usually judged to be a success if it achieves the objectives according to its acceptance criteria, within an agreed timescale and budget and might follow a typical path such as:

  • Defining the reason why a project is necessary
  • Capturing project requirements
  • Specifying the quality of the deliverables
  • Estimating resources and timescales
  • Preparing a business case to justify the investment
  • Securing corporate agreement and funding
  • Developing and implementing a management plan for the project
  • Leading and motivating the project delivery team
  • Managing the risks, issues and changes along the way
  • Monitoring progress against plan
  • Managing the project budget
  • Maintaining communications with stakeholders and the project organisation
  • Supplier management
  • Closing the project in a controlled fashion at the end

Programme Management

A Programme is made up of a specific set of related projects identified by an organisation that together will deliver some defined objective, or set of objectives, for the organisation. The objectives, or goals, of the programme are typically at a strategic level so that the organisation can achieve benefits and improvements in its business operation. 

There is a close link between Programme Management and Project Management because the Programme is made up of projects and is only successful if the projects within it succeed. The concept of a programme is that it should deliver more than the “sum of its parts”, typically through it includes:

  • Project co-ordination: identifying, initiating, accelerating, decelerating, redefining and terminating projects within the programme
  • Managing interdependencies: between projects, and between projects and business-as-usual activities
  • Transformation: taking project outputs and managing change within business-as-usual so that outputs deliver outcomes
  • Benefits management: defining, quantifying, measuring and monitoring benefits
  • Stakeholder management and communications: ensuring that relationships are developed and maintained, thus enabling productive, two-way communication with all key stakeholders