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PRINCE2™: How to earn value
PRINCE2™’s true value is thickly veiled behind exam cram selling. With a change in approach as suggested here, significant value is available. Previously sunk training investment can be brought to a return and new investment made with confidence.
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Have your say – what is Project Assurance?
With project failure rates inherently high, both public sector and private organisations are looking to support their activities through project assurance but the term is widely used and variously interpreted. We asked twenty five blue chip organisations to share their thinking...
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Raising programme and project competency in your organisation
Peter Mayer introduces a new series of management workshops aimed at improving core skills, behaviours and communication.
At Pelicam we have always advised you of the benefits of understanding the core components for project success – we call it Project Intelligence™ - and we developed a two day active learning workshop called ‘Realising Project Intelligence’ which has proven to be a valuable benchmark, energiser and enabler for project and programme managers alike.
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 Survey…We would like to hear from you
Imagine you find Aladdin’s Lamp! Unfortunately this one has etched in its side “Project Wishes Only”. Before you give it a rub what three project capability wishes will you make?
 Business Systems Replacement – An implementation review and “key learnings”
Barry Sacks, Managing Practitioner.
A large financial services organisation had embarked on an ambitious strategic multi-million, multi-year project to replace their current business systems, primarily packaged solutions by third parties, with new systems software and databases developed by an in-house team. After two years with significant schedule and cost overrun and two missed deployment deadlines, the board agreed to seek external assistance to bring the programme back on track. Pelicam were approached to provide that support based on their reputation for pragmatic assurance services.
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Telecommunications: €50 million billing, customer management and middleware systems replacement
Pelicam is proud to have worked with Meteor throughout their very complex programme, the biggest ever undertaken by the company.
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3G Launch planning – key challenges
Nick Sanderson, Managing Practitioner
 Russ Ede, one of our senior practitioners has been working with a major European Telco as the Programme Manager for the launch of a new 3G mobile proposition. The scope of the work includes management of the launch of consumer and business mobile with voice, mobile broadband and fixed/mobile integration. The launch will be supported by an online presence covering the entire customer lifecycle. The company is also launching an expanded set of reseller, dealer and direct sales channels.
Key challenges in this type of engagement include:
 business case sign-off impacted due to a current change in ownership
taking place
managing the senior stakeholders through the launch of a mobile product within a more traditional
fixed line culture
development of the technical solution with a dependency of inflexible legacy business systems.
Paper and bureaucracy is killing us...
“Two things that have caused pain in programme management.
Far too many programme managers believe in bureaucracy and paperwork
Risk profiling and Gantt charts etc.
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 You’re in the driving seat...
We were interested to hear that CA are running a ‘Portfolio Experience’ training event using a tool that gives a group of 15 delegates a set of challenging decisions to make for a fictitious company. A years’ worth of decisions in a day…..CA have invited Pelicam to go along and experience the course and have opened up the invite to our network. There is no cost to attend, but we would like you to write a report on what you thought of the course so we can publish it in our next newsletter. If you are interested in attending the next event please contact CA directly by emailing Lynda.roberts@ca.com.
 
We are now planning our main fundraising event for 2010 to help raise funds for Lifelites so they can continue to make a world of difference to the lives of terminally ill children in hospices all around the UK by providing a fully maintained technology package.
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Some dates for your diary
Walk or cycle the Ridgeway with us on 22nd and 23rd May. Peter is planning to cycle as much of the Ridgeway as possible over the two days (stopping at a B&B and local pub for refreshments). Please let us know if you are keen to join in – email helen.morgan@pelicam.com.
CA course
CA are running ‘Portfolio Experience’ 1 day training events over the forthcoming months. Please contact CA directly at Lynda.roberts@ca.com to find out more. If you do attend, please let us know what you thought of the course.
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