Project maturity assessment - a top law firm The client believed that it was not working optimally in identifying

and managing projects. The business approached IT and operational resources for new systems and new procedures without first getting authorisation from senior managers. IT and operations would attempt to comply with all requests but there was no real plan of who was doing what as workloads were driven directly from the business without management guidance. In some cases individuals were working on several projects for the business that their line manager was not aware of. Clearly this was a structural issue about who had the power to authorise projects and how these projects were to be planned and resourced. While there were suggestions as to how to improve the situation, no consensus on which improvements would be most worthwhile had been reached. To help the client identify and prioritise improvements to their project approach Maven carried out a project maturity assessment, comparing their existing current capability for project management with UK best practice including alignment to strategic objectives and organisational governance. We produced a report and recommendations that identified what positive outcome would be reached by replacing the existing project management approach with best practice standards. This has given the client a roadmap of project management improvements that we believe can be implemented within a short timescale. The Executive Team are now much clearer about what changes to authorise and what the likely results will be.

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