Further research

Further research

AXELOS publications

Best-practice publications in the area of portfolio, programme, and project management include:

• Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2^® (6th edition) This is a structured method to help effective project management via clearly defined products. Key themes that feature throughout PRINCE2 are the dependence on a viable business case confirming the delivery of measurable benefits that are aligned with an organization’s objectives and strategy, while ensuring the management of risks, costs, and quality.

• PRINCE2 Agile^® This was developed in response to demand from user communities. It is the world’s most complete agile project management solution, combining the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the governance of PRINCE2. It provides the structure and flexible controls of PRINCE2 and demonstrates how they can be used with agile concepts, methods, and techniques.

• A Guide to AgileSHIFT^® Designed to prepare and equip everyone in an organization for transformational change, the guide provides insights into why organizations need to transform and offers guidance to support a shift towards enterprise agility. AgileSHIFT will create and support the champions of change that your business needs to thrive in an increasingly competitive and disruptive environment.

• Management of Portfolios (MoP^®) Portfolio management concerns the twin issues of how to do the ‘right’ projects and programmes in the context of the organization’s strategic objectives, and how to do them ‘correctly’ in terms of achieving delivery and benefits at a collective level. MoP considers the principles upon which effective portfolio management is based; the key practices in the portfolio definition and delivery cycles; and guidance on how to implement portfolio management and sustain progress in a wide variety of organizations.

• Management of Risk (M_o_R^®) M_o_R offers an effective framework for taking informed decisions about the risks that affect performance objectives. The framework allows organizations to assess risk accurately (selecting the correct responses to threats and opportunities created by uncertainty) and thereby improve their service delivery.

• Management of Value (MoV^®) This is a cross-sector and universally applicable guide on how to maximize value in a way that takes account of organizations’ priorities, differing stakeholders’ needs and, at the same time, uses resources as efficiently and effectively as possible. It will help organizations to deliver enhanced value across their portfolio, programmes, projects, and operational activities to meet the challenges of ever-more competitive and resource-constrained environments.

• Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3^®) This is a tool for assessing an organization’s current capabilities for managing its portfolios, programmes, and projects. It helps the organization to implement change and improvements in a structured way. P3M3 is made up of three models, and uses a five-level maturity framework to focus on seven process perspectives.

• Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O^®) P3O provides universally applicable guidance to successfully establish, develop, and maintain appropriate support structures. These structures will facilitate the delivery of business objectives (portfolios), programmes, and projects within time, cost, quality, and other organizational constraints.

Other global best-practice publications aimed to support organizations in other areas are:

• ITIL^® This is the most widely recognized framework for IT and digitally enabled services in the world. It supports organizations and individuals to gain optimal value from IT and digital services, defining the direction with a clear service value system, aligning them with the business strategy and customer needs.

• RESILIA^® This comprehensive portfolio of tools and training will enable your organization to achieve global best practice in cybersecurity. RESILIA helps embed best-practice cybersecurity skills and behaviours throughout your organization, regardless of employees’ roles or responsibilities. With RESILIA you can move beyond effective cybersecurity and achieve solid cyber resilience.

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Other sources

Association for Project Management (2007) Co-Directing Change – A guide to the governance of multi-owned projects. APM.

Murray-Webster, R. and Dalcher, D. (2019) APM Body of Knowledge (7th edition). Association for Project Management.

Pullan, P. (2016) Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Kogan Page.

Pullan, P. and Archer, J. (2013) Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing Change. Kogan Page.

Pullan, P. and Murray-Webster, R. (2011) A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management. Gower.