PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

Our team consists of energetic and dynamic project management consultants and professionals, all with a proven and successful track record.

Itello approaches every IT project or programme using a proven methodology, regardless of size of company or length of project. Each project is conducted using Project Management Institute protocols that ensure completion is on time and on budget. The end result of a project is a transfer of knowledge to the client.

Closely allied to Project Management, Programme Management is defined as the coordinated management of a portfolio of projects in order to achieve a set of business objectives. Management of the portfolio, and other related Programme Management Services, by a Programme Manager with Programme Management Counsultants ensure effective and successful Programme Management Consulting.

Programme Management can be used in organisations in a number of ways, which will include the following:

To co-ordinate the management of a portfolio of projects that change organisations to achieve benefits that are of strategic importance.
To bring related projects together in order to manage their inter-dependencies. It enables a strategic view to be taken over a set of projects, aligning and co-ordinating them within a programme of business change in support of specific business strategies.
To provide the framework for implementing business strategies and initiatives, or large scale change, and help to organise, manage, accommodate and control these changes.
The creation of a structured framework for defining and implementing change within an organisation. The programme management framework covers organisation, processes, outputs and ways of thinking that focus on delivering new capabilities and benefits.
The programme management programme selects or commissions projects, providing the overall co-ordination, control and integration of the projects' delivery.

Programme Management includes the process of managing benefits from their initial identification and definition through to the eventual realisation and achievement of measurable improvements. The driver for a programme management programme is normally the ongoing viability and relevance of the programme's business case and the justification of benefit against costs.

The information that will be obtained is normally analysed in a Programme Support Office that will enable the Programme Manager to:

Identify, resource or prioritise conflicts as new projects are added to the programme by reviewing both existing and new project plans for conflicts of resource or timescales. Identify, manage and authorise requests for change after ensuring that an assessment of the impact of that change on other projects within the Programme takes place.
Manage the critical path within the Programme by monitoring the critical deliverables within the programme's projects and supporting the achievement of those milestones by the project managers and programme management consultants.
Review regular project reports and act to resolve or escalate any concerns expressed by the project managers.
Wherever possible identify or forecast potential problems with milestone delivery.
Monitor over and under spend of various project budgets in conjunction with milestone achievement in order to avert potential problems.
Ensure the project managers compliance with the best practices of project management and the project practices of the organisation.
Ensure that a review of the project risk takes place. Remain aware of the need to assess the continuing validity and/or priority of any project.

Programme Management Objectives when applied in a multiple project environment are:

Comprehensive and clear overview of all the active projects.
Early identification (and consequent escalation and resolution) of issues.
Change authorisation together with impact assessment and control.
Early identification and/or forecasting of resource conflicts.
All project records held in one central repository.
Consistency of approach, management and reporting.
Clear responsibility for the function.
Cross fertilisation of ideas - the Programme Support Office becomes a central pool for information, which may include ideas on improved project management, programme management and methodology.