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Maximising Project Success by design
In today’s dynamic world, controlling business or organisational
activity by projects is an ever-increasing practice. In this context, a project
is any business or organisational activity that must be delivered within time
and budget constraints.
Progressive organisations are now taking control of these activities by
applying Project Management techniques. This has resulted in an increasing
number of soft projects such as "changing the culture in an
organisation". To maximise the success of such
projects they need to be well defined and have a strong
design, which has the common agreement
of the key stakeholders. This is the aim of The Logical Framework Methodology.
The Logical Framework
The Logical Framework (LogFrame) is a project improvement tool that has
the power to communicate a complex and costly project clearly and
understandably on a single sheet of paper. It is used during project planning
to develop the overall design of a project. The LogFrame is also used as a tool
to improve project implementation, planning, monitoring and evaluation. The
LogFrame is a participatory planning tool. Its power depends on the degree to
which it incorporates the full range of views of intended beneficiaries and
others that have a stake in the project design. It is a tool for summarising
the key features of a project design at the time of project identification
during preparation and appraisal. It is best used to help project designers and
stakeholders:
- Set Proper Objectives
- Define indicators of success
- Identify key activity clusters
- Define critical assumptions on which the project is based
- Identify means of verifying project accomplishments
- Define resources required for implementation
Logical Framework Workshops/Seminars - See details of next workshop
Generic Workshops where you are
shown the methodology and how to apply it are highly participative. These
intensive Workshops are held over two days and participants learn: -
- how to conduct a stakeholder analysis to
determine their interests in the project
- how to produce a problem tree for a
project based on cause and effect logic
- how to identify a project’s Hierarchy of
Objectives (ie goal, purpose/impact, outputs/deliverables and activities)
- how to set key project performance
indicators
- how to identify the means of verification
for tracking performance
- how to identify the external factors (such
as risks, assumptions, etc) on which the project’s success depends
- How to determine killer assumptions and
how to deal with them.
- how to build customer supplier
relationships into project design
- how to use the Logical Frameworks as the
script for presentations to Boards, Steering Committees or Management
- how to manage a portfolio or program of
projects
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Email kdavis@ausproject.com.au