Spectra of instruments for advancing the management of projects

Advancement process

• Planning an integrated advancement process
• Establishing internal development team of driving forces
• Achieving ownership of the corporate management
• Evaluation of improvement effect on management projects

Need for improvement

• Analysing strength/weaknesses of today’s handling
• Inspiration from conferences and initial seminar/courses
• Benchmarking on other companies and projects
• Evaluating the maturity of the present project culture
• Summarising the aimed improvement of managing projects

Training personel 

• Introductory courses for project managers and participants
• Extended training and coaching of project managers
• Integrating training sessions into current projects
• Utilising certification as a lever for competence development

Standards Development

• Project management guidelines on issues of advancement
• Paradigms for project handbook including templates
• Platform for virtual communication in projects
• Access to good examples and experienced colleagues
• Reference to methods and literature in training manuals

Serving Projects  

• Assisting the planning of project preparation start-up
• Facilitation of preparation or start-up workshops 
• Sparring partner for the project manager under the execution
• Review and auditing of management effort in the project
• Facilitating the close-down evaluation of the project handling
• Project office for serving projects and portfolio management c

Ensuring Learning 

• Mechanism for project learning and knowledge exchange
• Facilitating the networking of the project managers
• Attending external conferences – including presentations

Project Orientation

• Clarifying the company’s degree of project orientation
• Making all projects visible – ensuring anchoring
• Promoting project priority and reporting
• Pro-active roles in projects of corporate management