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| Programme and Project Management |
InDepth Consultants are experienced, competent and credible programme and project managers, who have delivered complex, challenging and demanding strategic projects across many central government departments. All are members of the Association for Project Management (APM), whose mission statement is,
"To develop and promote the professional disciplines of project and programme management for the public benefit"
APM is the largest independent professional body of its kind in Europe, with over 13,500 individual and 300 corporate members throughout the UK and abroad, and aim to develop and promote project management across all sectors of industry and beyond.
At the heart of APM is the APM Body of Knowledge; fifty-two knowledge areas required to manage any successful project. APM promotes the use of the Body of Knowledge through qualifications, accredited training, research, publications and events. APM Members are skilled and experienced professionals recognised in the UK and, through the International Project Management Association (IPMA), worldwide.
InDepth Consulting Limited actively supports the APM five key strategy areas:
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International
Promoting and protecting the interests and standards of APM and its members at home and abroad.
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Professional Development
Developing and maintaining an internationally recognised structure of qualifications relevant to cross-sector practice.
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Membership
Attracting and retaining members through a growing range of value-for-money services and products.
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Knowledge
Becoming the recognised source for the development and dissemination of knowledge for project and programme management.
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Governance and Administration
Providing an efficient, cost-effective, transparent core for APM to deliver the plans, services and products to members, potential members and society as a whole.
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InDepth Consultants are all PRINCE 2 Project Management qualified and have considerable experience of applying this discipline. PRINCE, which stands for Projects in Controlled Environments, is a project management method covering the organisation, management and control of projects.
PRINCE was first developed by the Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) now part of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in 1989 as a UK Government standard for IT project management.
Since its introduction, PRINCE has become widely used in both the public and private sectors and is now the UK's de facto standard for project management. Although PRINCE was originally developed for the needs of IT projects, the method has also been used on many non-IT projects. The latest version of the method, PRINCE2, is designed to incorporate the requirements of existing users and to enhance the method towards a generic, best practice approach for the management of all types of projects.
PRINCE2 is a process-based approach for project management providing an easily tailored, and scaleable method for the management of all types of projects. Each process is defined with its key inputs and outputs together with the specific objectives to be achieved and activities to be carried out.
The method describes how a project is divided into manageable stages enabling efficient control of resources and regular progress monitoring throughout the project. The various roles and responsibilities for managing a project are fully described and are adaptable to suit the size and complexity of the project, and the skills of the organisation. Project planning using PRINCE2 is product-based which means the project plans are focused on delivering results and are not simply about planning when the various activities on the project will be done. | |
PRINCE 2 Process Model
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Updated Tuesday, February 27, 2007 |
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