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What is a Project Sponsor? The Project Sponsor is the accountable manager/person who oversees a project, delegates authority to the Project Manager and is responsible for the business outcome. What is the difference of an Executive Sponsor to a Project Sponsor? The objectives of an Executive Sponsor and Project Sponsor are the same… to see

  Rapid pace of change = complex challenges. Businesses are managing a higher number of simultaneous programmes as part of extensive transformations. When transformations are complex, it can be difficult to see the path between strategy and benefit as the variables are so significant. View our latest infographic on some key considerations.

Ever tried reverse brainstorming (sometimes referred to as negative brainstorming)? It is a creative problem solving technique that can be applied in many situations. For example one of the most effective questions you can ask yourself in any environment is: What should we STOP doing? One of my favourite applications of this: What should your

Just quietly, PM-Partners has been doing business in Asia for around five years. But we didn’t want to shout about it, till we found our feet. Doing business in Asia is a different ballgame and we wanted to be sure we’d learnt enough to proceed with confidence. As a mark of such, we’ve now appointed

Managing Successful Programmes represents proven good practice in successfully delivering transformational change. It provides an adaptable route map for programme management, based on principles, governance themes and a set of interrelated processes (‘Transformational Flow’) and advice on how principles, themes and flow can be embedded, reviewed and applied, to gain benefits from business change. View

People issues can sometimes be the cause of project failure. The key question is, what approach should be taken to minimise the chance that people issues derail your project? The answer lies in taking a two-part approach to the people dimension. Part one consists of a project utilising an organisational change approach appropriate to the

With strong sponsorship the most complex project can succeed, with reactive sponsorship the simplest project will struggle… Pete Swan (Director, PM-Partners group) has found the best sponsors: demonstrate a strong interest are recognised as leaders of change actively make decisions that steer the project in a firm direction. View our infographic to find out what

An Agile project management methodology, Scrum is the most popular of all Agile methods. The emphasis is on the importance of delivering business value early and continuously throughout the life cycle of the project. Find out some of the many benefits of Scrum here.

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