practical.agile.control
Welcome to AHE Partnership
At AHE Partnership we consider the biggest challenges in major IT-enabled business change programmes and projects to be:
- Understanding how to move from policy to deployment, how to build the business case, specifically the management case for investment;
- Planning, designing or starting-up a business change programme to deliver; specifically, the approach, governance and the value of good PMO services;
- Road-mapping the delivery, taking the strategic planning down to detailed delivery planning, considering the interactions with risk, issue and dependency management, and reporting to support decision making.
We provide a value-add service to IT-enabled business change programmes of work. With our ways of working, our experience and knowledge of working in public and private sector, portfolio, programme & project management [P3M]; we will support, 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 accredited AXELOS Consulting Partners & 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: is 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 agile principles enabling control of delivery:
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him”
– Gandalf; JRR Tolkien – The Hobbit
SERVICES
POLICY TO DELIVERY PLANNING SERVICE
The policy to delivery planning service is to support new and amended policy initiatives succeed; by identifying early-on the delivery options with associated risks and dependencies to help business change programmes and delivery projects start-up and achieve the intended outcomes. This planning service will use workshops, interviews and document review to support policy and delivery leads to consider the strategic delivery options, share stakeholder needs and initiate the business case.
PMO/P3O CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT & ASSURANCE SERVICE
The capability assessment & assurance service will provide an independent and objective oversight: to the organisational programme / project management regime; to measure its maturity against a comprehensive and broad based set of portfolio, programme & project management best practices; and performance capability. This service will identify governance, management, control and planning capabilities that are 1) in existence; 2) missing; 3) and the relative importance to each capability to manage the organisational change and delivery.
PMO/P3O DESIGN, START-UP & MOBILISE SERVICE
The design, start-up and mobilise service is to implement PMO/P3O services to manage, control and support change and delivery; either during initiation / identification / definition of benefits-led business change, or for a PMO/P3O refresh / reorganisation. The service will establish an effective manage, control and support services based on achieving 4 key features – organisational governance; scope management; common standards & best practice; and shared consistent information.
The functions, processes and procedures are tailored to the organisational (portfolio, programme or project) needs.
PMO/P3O IMPROVEMENT & ASSURANCE IMPLEMENTATION SERVICE
The improvement and assurance implementation service can be used to improve PMO/P3O services; to implement management and control assurance framework within a portfolio, programme management office and project support office. The output from the capability assessment and assurance service will be used to plan, implement and mature the improvements.
P3M PLANNING & SCHEDULING SERVICE
The planning and scheduling service is to provide management and control at the core of portfolio, programmes and projects to achieve successful delivery within agreed tolerances. This service is based on delivering key features to establish rigorous monitoring and proactive control – assess capability, define approach, agree design, implement, mature and maintain.
DEV-OPS PLANNING SERVICE
The DevOps planning service is part of the DevOps Toolchain, to provide management, development and delivery at the core of an agile service management framework [agile software development / enterprise systems management] to achieve successful deployment and release; to improve the predictability of increased deployment frequency. This service is based on planning for integrated product or service delivery: ensuring continuous assessment, testing, development and release within the development and deployment timeframes.
P3M MANAGEMENT CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICE
The business case provides justification to change; it evaluates the benefit, cost and risks associated to delivery options and rationale for preferred solution and approach; and is broken down into 5 key cases – strategic, economic, financial, commercial and management.
The management case is key and describes the overall programme approach, structure, governance, business change, benefits realisation, risk management and assurance for a successful delivery. The management case service covers the assessment of current delivery methods, organisation & options, management case, identify gaps and improvements
P3M Turnaround Recovery Planning Service
The turnaround recovery planning service will assist with re-planning where the business benefit cannot be delivered within a reasonable time or cost structure; the political environment is not supportive of recovery; the sponsor has departed and no replacement has stepped forward; business needs have changed; significant technological changes have occurred rendering the approach invalid; or market conditions have changed. This service will produce an achievable schedule; re-establish customer and management confidence; re-baseline the plans and prioritise critical issues.
This services will focus on providing key stakeholders with accurate information to inform decision making to increase the management attention and scrutiny to increase delivery confidence.
“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 highly performing professionals who are committed to deliver 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 are accredited AXELOS Consulting Partners.
AHE Partnership Founders
Marc Atherton
MAPM
Director
Marc is a programme and project management consultant with over 15 years’ experience of 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
Director
Deborah is a highly experienced interim manager and consultant in the portfolio, programme & project [P3M] arena; with over 20 years’ experience of technology-enabled business change and delivery. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society; Fellow of the Association for Project Management and an accredited Assurance Review Leader and P3M3 Assessor.
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 and an accredited P3M3 Assessor.
Certifications
Memberships & Accreditations
Portfolio, Programme & Project
- Agile Project Management
- Managing Success Programmes [MSP]
- Portfolio, Programme & Project Offices [P3O]
- PRINCE2
Planning & Risk
- Projects Planning & Control
- Management of Risk
Benefits, Business Change & Improvement
- Better Business Cases
- Change Management
- Lean Six Sigma
- PROSCI Change Management
- Agile Business Analysis
- Neuro Linguistic Practitioner
IT Governance & Service
- GDPR Awareness
- British Computer Society
- Fellow
- Professional Member
- Chartered IT Professional
- Association for Project Management
- Fellow
- Professional Member
- Accredited Assurance Review Lead
- Accredited P3M3 Assessor
- Professional Certificate in Management
- Institute of Risk Management
- AXELOS Consulting Partner
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