Articles & Case Studies

QRP International offers three different formats to help you get certificated. We offer On-site, Virtual and E-learning training. In quality they are all alike, the only difference is what fits your needs and objectives. Both the On-site and the Virtual courses can be held inhouse (with your colleagues only) and open (with other professionals from different fields). This whitepaper explores the three different formats and the unique benefits.

We offer our courses On-site, in our Virtual Classroom and have some E-learning training available. All will help you get certificated and all are equally in quality. The only difference between the three formats? Your objectives and expectations! Learn what format best fits your needs. This infographic gives you a clear overview.

Explore our latest way of teaching; QRP’s Virtual Classroom. This brochure will answer all your important questions. It will explain the structure of the Virtual Classroom and why you will love it!

This is a KEY document for anyone embarking in a PMO challenge. As project management has become accepted as a mainstream management discipline, many organisations have established a PMO (Portfolio, Programme or Project Management Office) function to increase the maturity of their project management approach. The scope, power and day to day responsibilities of each of these offices differs widely, comprising a mixture of strategic and tactical functions. This paper describes the community of stakeholders that benefit from the existence of a PMO, the services that are most important to them, the key challenges that PMOs are facing and the ideas that are helping to meet these challenges. An example of “PMO stakeholder map” is shown, and further more, some ideas about how to incorporate agile principles into existing project management approaches are presented. This is a KEY document for anyone embarking in a PMO challenge.

Are all your programmes and projects really necessary? Which ones will help you to deliver your strategy? What benefits will they give you? Do you have the right people and skills? Are they available when you need them? If you can answer these questions, then your organization probably already has a PMO (P3O) model in place or has the key components of it. If you can’t answer them but would like to, then you should seriously consider implementing P3O.

Our trainer and consultant Jeff Ball spent a couple of days with a fast growing higtech company. They were looking at their PMO needs because their business is growing FAST and they are running more and more projects, so they had identified the need for a PMO solution…

The purpose of this White Paper is to present an integrated approach to the governance of projects, programmes and portfolios. It aims to demonstrate how the logic behind concepts such as ownership and accountability can be used to ensure a consistent approach to governance across an organization. This study addresses issues like “business as usual and management of change”, “identity the right accountable resources”, “decision-making processes at project and portfolio levels”. Download the paper to find out also the 5 typical problems that arise when working on integrated project, programme and portfolio management.

This White Paper discusses the implementation of Agile frameworks within organizations where the complexity of the delivery and management environment means that inspecting and adapting guidance from the UK government’s Best Management Practice frameworks is recommended. Agile encourages the creative implementation of Best Management Practice in the way it was designed to be used. It enables focused delivery of the right outcomes, on time and cost, even when the environment is complicated, complex or anarchic.

Not all things are equal. In this busy world, if you don’t prioritise, you won’t get the right things done. If you want to get things done, you need to prioritise.