Read how a health services organization struggling with inconsistent project delivery adopted the PRINCE2 methodology to standardize practices and align their projects to a best-practice approach.
A project department within a health services organization had trouble delivering projects on time, to budget and consistently not delivering to the quality expectations of its customers. The organization’s leadership team asked the project office to look into ways to improve the delivery of their projects. They also had complained that throughout the past year they had little means of understanding which projects where on schedule, which were running to budget and which projects remained on track to deliver value. Over the years the organization had placed their staff through different project management training courses, with several staff also gaining a project management certification.
Despite having trained and certified project managers, the organization continued to struggle because learnings were not being consistently applied to prevent and resolve project issues. Each project continued to be set up differently, time and cost estimates were calculated differently, risks were managed inconsistently (if managed at all) as there was no standard project management approach for project managers to follow.
The organization concluded that a single project management methodology was needed to guide its project managers, and support the application of project management practices in a transparent and consistent way. In addition, it was requested that the method align to best practice project management.
This enterprise organization invited us in to provide a PRINCE2 briefing. Soon after staff attended PRINCE2 training.
Today the organization is embedding PRINCE2 project management and confidence is increasing as the organization now has a standard method for project management with guidance on how it can be adapted to projects of different types and complexity.
Why PRINCE2?
- A proven methodology
- Internationally recognized as best practice project management
- Provides structure and scalability to suit projects of different complexities
- Strong focus on business justification
- Clearly defines project roles for all project team members, including project leaders, project manager role, delivery team leads to project assurance and support
- Offers an easy to follow project lifecycle with ready to use and practical tools and techniques
- Works seamlessly with agile practices
PRINCE2 is recognized as the world’s most popular project management method with over two million people holding a PRINCE2 certification and thousands of organizations having adopted PRINCE2 or their own tailored version derived from PRINCE2.
Learn more about Prince2 and other project management approaches.