So you and your team members have followed a portfolio, programme, or project management training, maybe more than one, maybe even achieved the PRINCE2® Foundation or Practitioner certificate, the P3O® Foundation or Practitioner certificate, or the CAPM or PMP certificate. Training is part of our services. Training provides knowledge. Training is an enabler for you and for your organisation.
But now it's time to use what has been learned, and this in day-to-day situations. Often the practices learned are "forgotten", seem no longer practical, or whatever reason for not doing them.
The following products are developed to support you in your day-to-day work as a project manager - embedding the practices, making them normal practices. These products will support you to put it all into symphony.
Enjoy them, and pass us your feedback - we want to keep improving them.
Note: it might be important for you that our products follow your own house style and contain your logo. Please contact us and we will make you an offer that will be cheaper compared to recreating these products yourself from scratch.
Don’t lose important product information anymore!
Have you ever been part of a planning workshop; a workshop in which the scope of the project is determined? The idea of these workshops is to identify and describe the products to be delivered by the project.
Our experience in projects, in training and in coaching sessions was that a lot of information was lost once the workshop was done. The information remaining was most of the time limited to the product breakdown structure. But all interesting information discussed about the products themselves… lost. What was the purpose of this product again? Didn't we discuss quality criteria? Wasn't there a consensus about the composition of this or that product?
Do you share this experience?
Until now! We developed a PostIt that supports our project teams with capturing the key information about the identified products, and this during the workshop. Our PostIts provide space, not only for the product title, but also for the type of product, its purpose and its quality criteria. In case more information needs to be captured – we use the back of the PostIt.
You are responsible for keeping a business running...?
You are responsible for an entire team...?
AND you are also responsible for a number of projects...?
Then you definitly need to manage your time very adequatly.
Our quick reference card provides you with a brief, yet complete, overview of what is expected from senior management in their Project Board role during the entire project lifecycle.
As senior manager you are not only responsible to maintain the current business operations, but also to improve the business operations.
Given that the pace of change in organizations accelerates, the focus of your attention is moving from business as usual to business change. The introduction of these changes happen typically by means of projects. The responsibilities over business as usual don’t give you the time to get involved in all details of every project. An effective framework with clear roles and responsibilities becomes a must.
This quick reference card provides you with the role of senior management in projects.
Get the budget you need fot your projects!
Always have a clear view on all your project management products AND give your project a kick start with our product breakdown structure of project management products.
A product breakdown structure is generally considered as a must have for every project to ensure the entire scope of the project will be covered. But very often, project managers do not include their own products in such a product breakdown structure. The result of this is that no explanation exists of the reasoning for needing a specific budget for the project management activities.
The product breakdown structure we provide you (in different formats) shows the all management products expected by PRINCE2®. They are grouped for Starting Up a Project, the Initiation stage, and the subsequent delivery stages so that you will have all products in your project when these are needed. Moreover, for each delivery stage it is indicated what is expected during the stage itself, and nearing the end of the stage. For the last stage, a separate branch exists to list the closure related products.
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Rudy Terweduwe
