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Welcome to AHE Partnership
At AHE Partnership we consider the biggest challenges in major technology-enabled business change programmes and projects to be:
- the need to understand how to move from policy to deployment, how to build the business case, specifically the management case for investment;
- the need for good planning, designing and starting up a business change programme to deliver; specifically, the delivery approach, the governance and the value of fit for purpose PMO services;
- the need to road-mapping the delivery, taking the strategic plan down to detailed delivery schedules, considering the interactions with risk, issue and dependency management, and reporting to support decision making.
We provide a value-add service to technology-enabled business change programmes of work. With our ways of working, our experience and knowledge of working in the public and private sector, portfolio, programme & project management [P3M]; we will support, guide, challenge and enable successful management and control of delivery.
“Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.”
– ANTHONY J D’ANGLO
We at AHE Partnership are licensed AXELOS Consulting Partners [ACP] & P3M3 Assessors. We are not into re-inventing wheels and based on our experience [Over 50 years collateral] on both the client and supplier side; and using industry best practice from across the world; we can assist organisations in benefits-led business transformation and service integration by setting up and mobilising valued PMO services including planning & scheduling, reporting and RAID management for portfolio, programmes and projects.
Our consultants have the depth and breadth of all PMO disciplines, processes, methods and techniques, and are a ready-formed team. We offer a tailor-made service to design, build and deliver a portfolio, programme and/or project support/management services and planning & scheduling service. Key features of our service: to influence senior management decision making; to inspire programme or project managers to use best practice management; and to support recruit, train and mentor a permanent team to deliver PfMO, PMO & PSO services.
Our focus & passion
We are a small boutique consultancy, owned and managed by practitioners, providing all things PMO/P3O (for portfolio, programme projects): from start-up to close-down; pop-up support; PMO to permanent PfMO; providing practical solutions based on best practice principles enabling control of delivery. We provide support, we guide and we challenge your technology-enabled change delivery.
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him”
– Gandalf; JRR Tolkien – The Hobbit
Policy-to-Delivery Planning Service
Supports, influences, and challenges the development of a delivery roadmap and plans from policy, business plans and strategic intent.
PMO/P3O Design, Start-up & Mobilise Service
Design, start-up and mobilise programme and portfolio offices.
P3M Planning & Scheduling Service
Provide a complete planning, management and control, and scheduling service within the projects, programme and portfolio.
P3M Management Case Management Service
Provide the planning, management and control of the management case within a business case; the management case provides framework for the project, programme and portfolio management.
PMO Transition Service
Provides a service to transition the programme and programme management office from delivery into business as usual and service management; supports programme closure.
PMO/P3O Managed Service
Provide a complete set of PMO functions as a managed service; to manage, maintain and mature the functions and service.
PMO/P3O Capability Assessment & Assurance Service
Plan and carry-out capability and maturity assessments and/or assurance of programme and portfolio management offices.
PMO/P3O Improvement & Assurance Implementation Service
Implement improvements from the output of capability or maturity assessments and assurance review for programme and portfolio offices; implement assurance framework.
DevOps Planning Service
Provide a complete planning, management and control service for development operations in an ‘agile’ environment
P3M Turnaround Recovery Planning Service
Supports, influences and challenges the need to turnaround and/or recover the delivery of projects, programmes and portfolios.
P3M Delivery Assurance Service
Provide a delivery assurance framework, manage and mature the assurance regime of the project, programme and portfolio delivery; including systems change and business change assurance, quality management and testing.
P3M Transition Management & Delivery Service
Provide service of skilled and experienced teams and individuals to manage systems and business transition from legacy to new ways of working, including the interim state.
P3M Centre of Excellence Service
A service within the programme or portfolio management office, the centre of excellence provides P3M knowledge and resources to assess, assure, support, influence and challenge delivery management
“The root of the word ‘assessment’ is from the Latin ‘assidere’, which means ‘to sit beside’.”
Products
Quick Scan – PMO Audit
An accelerated 5-day PMO Audit; an insightful, high-level look at weaknesses and opportunities in your control of P3M delivery. The audit will cover either the portfolio level or programme management office. Provides a high-level review and will enable:
Quick Scan – P3M Maturity Assessment
An accelerated 5-day PMO Audit; covers one P3M management model only, for example, Project (PjM); the management model alternatives are Portfolio (PfM) and Programme (PgM). Provides a high-level review and will enable early intervention, ensuring:
Quick Scan – Project Quality Assurance
An accelerated 5-day PMO Audit; covers one project and provides an independent second opinion delivery confidence; high-level rated recommendations. Provides a high-level review:
P3M3 Assessments – P3M3 Assisted Self-Assessment
P3M3 Maturity Assessment provides a framework for organisations to benchmark the current capability. The P3M3 self-assessment can be carried out solely by the organisation; the assisted standard or enhanced self-assessment is supported by a trained P3M3 Assessor, who can hit the ground running in planning, running the assessment, and analysing the results. The assessment will:
P3M3 Assessments – P3M3 Full Assessment
P3M3 Maturity Assessment provides a framework for organisations to benchmark the current capability. The full P3M3 assessment can cover portfolio (PfM), programme (PgM)or project, (PjM) or a combination of the three management models; deliver a maturity certification, and/or a more in-depth further diagnostic assessment. The assessment will:
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success”
– HENRY FORD
About Us
All our Directors and Associates are appropriately qualified in the relevant methodologies and accredited; they are skilled and experienced high performing professionals who are committed to delivering value-added services. We tailor our solutions according to the need of the client and the risk profile of the portfolio, programme and projects.
AHE Partnership is an AXELOS Consulting Partners [ACP] and licensed to carry-out P3M3 Assessments; and GOV.UK Digital Marketplace Supplier
Social Value – Equal opportunity
Together, we tackle workforce inequality and demonstrate to young women through mentoring, networking, and ways of working what can be achieved and make a difference.
We receive useful insight from young women into how they are treated in the workplace and what are the challenges they face in the 21st century at work and in society.
We inspire young women from across a full spectrum of capabilities, not just the brightest, to believe they are okay; and feeling, at times unsuccessful is normal in everyone’s life, from which we should understand, learn, and move forward is vitally important.
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GROW: INCLUSIVE: RESPECT: LEADERSHIP: SUSTAIN:
Building trust with young women to help them become confident, independent, and valuable to their communities, organisations, and society by providing them with a set of skills and tools through experience and knowledge sharing which enable them to thrive.
Our Executive Director, Deb Hopkins-Hurt, works with the AIPM, APM, BCS and Women in Technology in their mentoring programmes; giving her time to mentor women at the early stages of their careers, changing careers and women returning back to work after career breaks.
AHE Partnership Directors
Marc Atherton
MAPM
Director
Marc is a programme and project management consultant with over 15 years of experience in delivering a range of projects across government and the private sector. Experience across all roles within the Programme Management Office [PMO]. Marc is a Professional Member of the Association for Project Management.
Deborah Hopkins-Hurt
FBCS, FAPM, FAIPM
Director
Deborah is a highly experienced interim manager, consultant and certified coach/mentor in the portfolio, programme & project [P3M] arena; with over 20 years of experience in technology-enabled business change and delivery. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society; a Fellow of the Association for Project Management; Fellow of the Australian Institute of Project Management.
Hazel Eggleton
MBCS CITP, MAPM
Director
Hazel has over 20 years of sound programme and project management experience. She has worked as a delivery focused programme and project consultant in the public and private sectors. Hazel is a BCS Chartered IT Professional; a Professional Member of the Association for Project Management.
P3M3 Assessors
UK, Australia, South Africa
Deborah Hopkins-Hurt
FBCS, FAPM, FAIPM
Senior Consultant
Deborah is an assurance practitioner, accredited Assurance Review Leader and licensed P3M3 Assessor.
Hazel Eggleton
MBCS CITP, MAPM
Senior Consultant
Hazel is a licensed P3M3 Assessor.
Selven Naicker
Associate Consultant
Selven has over 20 years of sound organisational change management experience; has undertaken assessments across portfolios and programmes. He is an accredited Assurance Review Leader and a licensed P3M3 Assessor.
Certifications
Memberships & Accreditations
Portfolio, Programme & Project
- Agile Project Management
- Managing Success Programmes [MSP]
- Portfolio, Programme & Project Offices [P3O]
- Management of Portfolios [MoP]
- PRINCE2
Organisational Governance
- AgileSHIFT
Benefits, Business Change & Improvement
- Better Business Cases
- Change Management
- Lean Six Sigma
- PROSCI Change Management
- Agile Business Analysis
- Neuro Linguistic Practitioner
Planning & Risk
- Project Planning & Control
- Management of Risk [M_o_R]
British Computer Society
- Fellow
- Professional Member
- Chartered IT Professional
Association for Project Management
- Fellow
- Professional Member
Australian Institute of Project Management
- Fellow
- Accredited Assurance Review Lead & Practitioner
- Licensed P3M3 Assessor
- Professional Certificate in Management
- Institute of Risk Management
- AXELOS Consulting Partner
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AHE Partnership Executive Director, Deb Hopkins-Hurt FBCS FAPM FAIPM, as one of the contributors and reviewers…provided some thoughts on assurance lessons to be learned from good, bad and ugly governance 😉