Independent PPM skills assessment in four months

Engaged the PM community, role-profiled against the APM, trained line managers as assessors and delivered an independent capability report on time. Then booked back to design and deliver the master class programme that followed.

Independent PPM skills assessment in four months

The Brief

A challenging timeline, with no shortcuts

Marshall ADG, the aerospace defence group, selected The Project Academy for a package of work with a four-month delivery window. The brief covered community engagement, role profiling, line manager training, independent reviews and a final capability report.

Four months for that scope is a tight timeline. We treated it as a project from day one.

Organisation
Marshall ADG
Industry
Aerospace & defence
Headquarters
Cambridge, UK

Our Approach

Engage, profile, train, assess, report.

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A smiling woman in a mustard cardigan and white collared shirt holds a water bottle and wears a conference badge, talking to another woman.

The Outcome

Delivered on schedule, then re-engaged for the next phase

The assessment project landed on time and the report gave Marshall ADG a clear baseline of capability and a roadmap forward. Marshall ADG then brought us back to design and deliver a PM master class programme as the next step.

We have built our practice on that pattern of repeat work for years.

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