5 key areas where tailoring needs to be applied
- Processes
- Themes
- Roles
- Management Products
- Terminology
What can’t be tailored?
Principles
Structure of programme board?
Senior Responsible Owner
* Business change managers
* Programme manager
* Executive
* Design Authority
Is tailoring mandatory?
Yes
Who is responsible for identifying and documenting the level of tailoring in the project?
PM
Documented in the PID
Reviewed by stakeholders
Approved by project board
Who can advise the Project Board and Project Manager?
- Project Assurance
- Project support
- Center of excellence
Can team managers suggest tailoring?
Yes, to the Project Manager - in order to help them manage their work packages more effectively
How to tailor to principles?
- First consider the principle, then adapt the theme.
- Adjust the role descriptions
- Revise terminology and language
- Edit mgmt products Product Descriptions
How to tailor to project factors?
- Team maturity
- Team knowledge, skills and experience
- Applying various bodies of knowledge
- Project and solution complexity
- Type and size
- How risky?
What are the 3 overall steps to tailoring?
- Consider the principles and project factors
- Adjust the processes
- Record the way you have tailored in the PID
Tailoring simplified projects
- You could overlap the initiation stage with first delivery stage
- For a single delivery stage the project plan will also be the stage plan
- For an open ended project, a project plan might not add value - you just need stage plans
What management products are optional?
Pre-project
* Project brief
* Stage plan (initiation)
Initiation
* Stage plan
Delivery stage
* Work package
Customer/supplier environment
- PM gives work packages to the team manager of the supplier
- This supplier may have their own separate project board
