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Aligning the Roles and Responsibilities to the Decision Making Process

Introduction

Case study highlighting Project and Programme Management in a Local Authority using best practice from Chester City Council's tailored project management programme.

Problem

The case study reports findings from Chester City Council's journey into developing a tailored project management programme across the authority.

This programme developed to meet recommendations from the Audit Commission to improve the project methodology framework, arrangements for sharing good practice, and formal training arrangements.

Description

This case study uses the approach taken by Chester City Council to develop a tailored project management programme to reflect on best practice on both project and programme management.

It includes a process diagram for developing a project method, a flowchart to define stages within a programme, examples of systems used by Chester City Council and lessons learnt.

Approach

The case study uses process diagrams and flowcharts to explain the Project and Programme Management process and how these link with systems put into place at Chester City Council.

Results

The Project and Programme Management process will aid Chester City Council with their next steps for programme design with the Corporate Plan and for the allocation of roles and responsibilities for each programme. Lessons learnt include:

Project management cannot be effectively introduced in isolation – some elements of Programme Management are also needed.
By deriving Programmes from strategy, project activity will be generated from the top down to deliver the outcome the organisation wants
Find people who want to address problems and offer to help them!

Beneficiaries

Local Authorities, Project Managers

Contact info

Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA)
Phone: +44 020 7296 6420
knowledge@idea.gov.uk

Project start date

//2004

Links

Visit the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) website

Download the 'Aligning the Roles and Responsibilities to the Decision Making Process' Report (PDF, Eng, 546 KB)

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration > Community development

Keywords

Capacity building