The communications challenge On a course recently a participant offered a throw-away comment during a discussion on stakeholder engagement: “I find there is so much stuff I have to do that I don’t have the time for communications”. This seemed to sum up for me the way projects and change teams deal with communications and …
Category archives: Project Management
Demonstrating value for a PMO
How can a PMO use qualifications to demonstrate added value? A major problem that every Portfolio, Programme, or Project Office (PMO) has is demonstrating added value that justifies its existence. This note explores the role that professional qualifications can have in addressing this issue.
Projects versus business change?
What is the difference between a project and business change? A lot of organisations use projects to deliver business change; whereas the most practiced change management method in the US (prosci) shows how to add business change to projects. So either a project delivers change (as most organisations want it to) or it doesn’t (which …
What about those small change projects?
Small Projects When training in organisations I often come across line managers who are running quite small change projects. They typically involve only 2-4 staff (mostly part-time) and some IT resource. A typical scope might be: Change a process or data collection to meet a new statutory requirement Introduce a new form to collect data, …
Certificate in Managing Change eLearning pathway
C4CM are pleased to announce that two further modules towards the achievement of the Certificate in Managing Change have been added to the eLearning programme of courses. The new modules are: Programme management overview Planning & estimating