Final Thoughts

To ensure the success of your projects in a fast-changing workplace, where staff turnover is rising and teams are moving to remote and hybrid settings, you must invest and deploy the right learning strategies. By replacing an outdated training approach with one that champions vital skills and abilities, your team can learn to embrace continuous improvement and achieve results.

As business leaders, we all want a sustainable organisation that is productive and can carry us into the future. Engaging in a capability uplift crafted to serve your organisation's strategic objectives will improve business outcomes and ensure that you are well on track.

About MetaPM

Founded in 2006, MetaPM is Victoria's leading independent project consulting and certified training provider. Offering some of the best end-to-end consulting, resourcing and training solutions available within its industry.

Our services are delivered by practitioners experienced in leadership and management, project/program/portfolio management, PMO, business analysis, change management, enterprise agility services and learning.

Case Study: Project Role Family Refresh

How MetaPM helped a major financial services organisation improve their project results by developing a consistent set of roles.

The Challenge

Our client, a major financial services organisation, recognised that a lack of capability had hampered their project planning and project management delivery success. They embarked on a program of initiatives to improve their project results.

In developing the program, it was identified that several issues were explicitly related to project roles, such as:

Lack of a dedicated pool of project staff
Disengagement by project staff due to a lack of career path clarity
Inconsistent application of a robust performance management framework across project management roles that are appropriately differentiated from operation roles
Recognition of project management roles being distinct and different to operational roles
Recognition of project management roles having commonality regardless of function, division or region
Remuneration strategy and policy that better reflects localised supply and demand of project management professionals.

MetaPM Approach

MetaPM was engaged to analyse global standards and best practices to develop a core set of standard roles for all program, project, business analysis, PMO, change management, and business process roles.

MetaPM focused on delivering a consistent set of Project Professional Role Family (PPRF) roles aligned with international best practice standards structured to integrate into existing HR standards and remuneration grades.

With extensive stakeholder engagement across a large project population, MetaPM were able to capture examples of better practice as well as inputs, ideas and concerns to ensure maximum collaboration and reuse.

The Results

MetaPM delivered a complete set of integrated job roles, descriptions, and structures for all project-related standard roles. This provided a sound basis for the following:

Standardised recruitment and selection practices
A standard suite of KRAs / performance objectives
A remuneration and reward framework
Identification of project practice professionals

In addition, MetaPM provided a detailed analysis of international standards as a key reference for future development.

Client Assessment

The engagement was recognised by the sponsor as a success, laying the foundation for the uplift of the overall capability of project professionals.

If you are ready to leverage the strengths of a capability uplift program, learn more about our approach or schedule a consultation, let’s get in touch! We look forward to working with you.

MetaPM Training Courses

MetaPM offers a range of training courses based on real-world knowledge and experience. We have been an Accredited Training Organisation by assessment from APM Group, AXELOS, PeopleCert and PMI for over ten years. We are constantly writing and delivering new courses for our clients.

Our trainers engaged by MetaPM Learning have been project managers, program managers or consultants and have extensive knowledge and experience, which they bring to their training and consulting work.

Our courses are available via Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) and face-to-face classroom training. For all PeopleCert certifications, exam vouchers are provided and included in the cost of the training.

We offer our full range of courses across Australia at client's offices and conference facilities on the following titles:

PRINCE2® 6th Edition
PRINCE2 Agile®
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP™ 5th Edition)
Portfolio, Program and Project Offices (P3O™)
Management of Portfolios (MoP™)
Managing Benefits™
PMP® Examination Preparation
CAPM® Examination Preparation
Change Management
Agile Project Management (AgilePM®)
Agile Programme Management (AgilePgM®)
Agile Business Analysis (AgileBA®)
ITIL ® 4 Foundation
Leading SAFe® with SAFe® 5 Agilist Certification
SAFe® Scrum Master with SSM 5 Certification
SAFe® for Teams with SAFe 5 Practitioner Certification

Short Courses

Project Management Fundamentals
Project Governance
Developing and Managing Teams
Project Management for Board Members
Effective Project Communication
Governance in Agile Environment
Managing Agile Projects
How to use PRINCE2 Agile
Turning Talk into Walk
Assessing Origination Readiness for Change
Leading others through change
Business Analysis Fundamentals

To enrol, visit our training page.

You can learn more about MetaPM’s Capability Uplift services and how to improve your program and project delivery efficiency below, or for more information please contact our team at 1800 800 436.