In our experience, the root causes of project failure are largely found in project initiation, before project planning has even started! This is why it is crucial to ‘curb your enthusiasm’, and before rushing into planning and execution, ensure that the key deliverables from the initiation stage (viz. the Project Charter and the Project Business Case) are rock solid. This requires key stakeholders and project staff to understand and agree the true commercial rationale for the project, what business outcomes they are all trying to achieve and how they will achieve them.

At Bestoutcome, we believe that the best way to achieve this is to follow the guiding principles of Outcome-Driven Project Management (ODPM) in developing, through a series of workshops, the right value proposition for the programme or project. This ensures that it gets the best possible start in life by being defined and configured to achieve the best business outcomes, with the:

Right definition
Right ambition
Right length
Right risk
Right estimate
Right resources
Right responsibilities
Right justification Our consultants are all experienced programme and project managers who have excellent facilitation skills. To get the best out of our initiation workshop, we recommend using an independent, Bestoutcome facilitator.