Public Sector Presentations Zone
Recent increased requirements to demonstrate significant improvement across all aspects of public sector operations has highlighted the benefits of improving project and programme management practices.
Project Challenge Expo has launched this dedicated presentations zone to focus exclusively on the challenges faced by managers in this sector.
These sessions will be led by leading practitioners and will provide insights into the 'real world' tools and techniques used to drive improvements across their organisations.
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 10.30
Title: Benefit-led decision making - from strategy through to projects
Speaker: Barbara Stock, British Council
Content: From a position of influence, but not authority, the PSO at British Council is enhancing their Programme Management approach by embedding Benefit Realisation Management.
The challenges:
- Recent changes in the strategic leadership team
- Practitioners geographically widespread, and with a range of experience
- Radical changes in budget
- The need for a consistent measurement basis for a Portfolio prioritisation process
Barbara Stock recounts the triumphs and the tears on this epic journey - and the impact on the roles of the SRO, of Programme, Project, and Change Managers.
Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 11.30
Title: Rising to the challenge
Speaker: Jonathan Shebioba, Director of Best Management Practice, OGC
Content: This presentation will cover the following key project and programme areas within OGC:
- The role of the programme and project boards the development of guidance for those involved in directing projects with PRINCE2.
- Managing the change portfolio and Starting Gate.
- P3O functions and services in relation to project assurance
- The use of P3M3 to understand organisational maturity
Developments with other central government departments to promote increased professionalism in the PPM community.
Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 12.30
Title: The National Portfolio Management Framework (NPMF™)
Speaker: Russell Jones, Portfolio Management Lead, BPM Limited
Content: Russell Jones of BPM will present the National Portfolio Management Framework (NPMF™) - the UK Public Sector Portfolio Management resource - and explain how it is bringing about tangible performance improvements in the delivery of public services.
NPMF™ provides the Public Sector with a shared web-based information system in which all UK public service organisations can manage their portfolio of major programmes and projects through the Business Transformation process. It enables the planning and control of their major projects from submission of ideas through to project completion and the real-time sharing of project information with teams across partner organisations.
Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 13.30
Title: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Speaker: Alasdair Elder - ICT Customer Services Manager, Warrington Borough Council
Content: Obtaining the maximum benefit from people's productivity is an essential element in today's financial climate, and even more so in the Public Sector. Doing the right projects, right first time, is the goal. How can software tools help managers keep their eyes on this prize?
Alasdair talks about his organisation and how his resource-limited teams remain focussed on value generation whilst also keeping-the-lights-on.
Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 14.30
Title: Stretching tight budgets - A smarter contractor selection process
Speaker: Richard Byford, Stablebridge Consulting
Content: For the past three years, Richard has been developing assessment and selection methods for his consulting team, which has been involved in the evaluation of over £50 billion of public contracts. He now advises companies how they can prosper by providing best value for money for public sector customers. Public authorities are increasingly driven to find ways to provide better services with impossibly tight budgets. Richard describes how the contractor selection process can be modified to create additional value through innovation - whilst ensuring delivery of the authority's requirements.
Thursday 1 October 2009
Thursday 1 October 2009 - 10.30
Title: Embracing Change: How the Department of Health are evolving their Project Management Environment
Speaker:Charles Cross, Head of Programme and Project Management at the Department of Health
Content: Charles Cross, Head of Programme and Project Management at the Department of Health has been instrumental in developing the Department's approach to managing its business through programmes. The aim has been to reach a level of maturity in developing policy and delivering change, where staff have the appropriate professional skills, use PPM techniques and deliver effectively managed portfolios of programmes and projects, prioritised by well informed Directors.
This session will explore the team's experiences and focus on the developments that have taken place along the way.
Thursday 1 October 2009 - 11.30
Title: Surgeries, smoking and swine flu - PPM in the real world of the NHS
Speaker: Jim Rea - Head of Programme Management, NHS Tower Hamlets
Content: Faced with a major investment programme, rapidly expanding healthcare demands and the DOH's introduction of World Class Commissioning, Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust decided to introduce programme management into the trust's operations, to gain visibility and control over its large and diverse portfolio of healthcare commissioning projects.
Working with Sandhill Consultants, THPCT rapidly implemented CA Clarity PPM as supporting software for its new PMO processes, achieving the second highest score in the NHS WCC assessment, some 9 months after the change commenced.
Learn from their recent experiences of introducing new ways of working into a high-pressure.
environment with little previous exposure to PPM disciplines.
Thursday 1 October 2009 - 12.30
Title: Realising benefits from projects and programmes - A fool's errand?
Speaker: Stephen Jenner, Director, Criminal Justice Information Technology, Ministry of Justice
Content: Many organisations struggle to demonstrate a return on their investments in change. Addressing this calls for a three-pronged approach - ensuring we are clear about the anticipated benefits from an investment; going beyond hurdle rates of return; and active management post deployment to exploit the capacity and capability created. But the challenge starts with the business case - research shows that too often they contain assumptions that masquerade as facts.
Steve will outline the research evidence, the possible explanations and solutions which call for a radically different approach to the way organisations approach the realisation of benefits from their investments in change.
Thursday 1 October 2009 - 13.30
Title: Delivering the Public Sector Agenda through portfolio, programme and project management
Speaker: Amanda Clack, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Content: Is Programme Management the key to delivering the public sector agenda? Discussion on the role of programme management in helping to deliver the public sector agenda given the pressures to achieve delivery. The session will look at whether programme management is enough and looks to portfolio management as the way in which public sector boards should start to really bring together the management of their business and programmes through portfolio management.