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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 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: 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
Policy-to-Delivery Planning Service
Supports, influences, challenges development of 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 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 portfolio.
P3M Delivery Assurance Service
Provide a delivery assurance framework, manage and mature the assurance regime of the project, programme and portfolio delivery; includes 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 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 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; and HM Government Digital Marketplace Supplier
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, 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’ experience of technology-enabled business change and delivery. She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society; Fellow of the Association for Project Management; Fellow of the Australian Institute of Project Management; and an accredited Assurance Review Leader and licensed 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 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
- Projects 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
- Accredited 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, is one of the contributors and reviewers…providing some thoughts on assurance lessons to be learned from good, bad and ugly governance 😉