PPM Improvement

Continuous Improvement

Managing your projects, programmes, and portfolio strategy effectively is a vital insurance policy for business success.

Whether your projects are large and complex or point solutions to specific business challenges, your PPM requires meticulous planning and constant improvement so that project delivery keeps on meeting highest expectations.

PPM improvement is about more than just timelines and deliverables. Each project is unique, and building a solid and continually improving base for developing and delivering those projects – no matter how different in type and demands – is critical to successful delivery.

Supporting Your Requirements

We then identify areas that need improvement. This could be estimation and forecasting of delivery, for example, or improvements to spend tracking or measuring satisfaction levels amongst stakeholders.  

We also provide mentoring, coaching and skills transfer programmes to help your organisation develop its own in-house capability.

Whether you need full end-to-end Project, Portfolio and Programme Management improvements, or bespoke consultancy services, we can help get your PPM back on track.

Our consultative, partnership approach provides a tailored service that works with you to ensure the successful delivery of your strategic objectives.

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Case Study

Find out how we helped the University of Leeds with hands-on PMO support to support their increased project demands.

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How We Can help

Whether you are looking for a strong return on your asset portfolio, enhanced programme performance, better governance, or improved profitability on your project delivery, we will work with you to make it happen.

Our consultants will look at your processes, making sure for example that your PPM gives you full visibility throughout each project’s cycle, clear alignment of your project plans and business strategies, and effective planning principles to mitigate risks and build efficiencies.

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Why not talk to us today to find out how we can help you.

Why Talk To Us About PPM Improvement?

Our PPM Consultants work with clients who expect and receive best‐in‐class advice because of our heritage in PPM methodologies, strategy and operations.

Our PPM consultants also offer a deep understanding of business practices, technology and change management. They are APM, PRINCE2, MSP, MoP and MoR practitioners in Waterfall, agile or hybrid environments.

Backing our consulting services in the PPM space, we have technical and planning expertise, offering a broad range of planning methods and tools, and managers who have delivered complex projects and designed highly effective PPM strategies.

Meet The Team

Derek Strachan

Business Consulting Practice Lead

As head of the CPS Business Consulting Practice, Derek is a Project, Portfolio and Programme management professional with over 30 years of experience. Among many other things, his work has helped hundreds of organisations rejuvenate their PMO, delivering greater efficiency, thereby increasing organisational return on investment

Christopher Pond

Commercial Director

Christopher has close to over 25 years of experience in Project Portfolio Management. His experience ranges from advisory services to deployment and training. He now focuses on delivering CPS' objectives to help customers of all sizes innovate and transform their business.

Sam Graber

Professional Services Director

Sam has over 18 years of experience in the Portfolio, Programme, Project and Management (PPM) arena. Sam has a passion for supporting customers with their PPM delivery and associated technology solutions. Sam has extensive experience in driving organisation-wide change and digital transformation across all verticals.

At CPS, Sam now focusses on leading a team of Business Consultants and Solution specialists whose passion is to support customers with leading edge work management solutions. All whilst ensuring the associated processes and governance are in place to ensure maximum benefits are realised.

Lester Lovelock

Head of Practice - Modern Work Management

Lester brings over 17 years’ consultancy experience in Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (P3M) and organisational change. He has a proven track record of delivering significant, complex change with appropriate visibility and building change through P3M skills and capabilities – bridging the gap between business and technology.