Project Management and Programme Management Services

Cambridge is recognised as a globally important centre for biopharmaceutical research and development. The city offers invaluable access to world-leading scientific expertise and provides excellent opportunities for collaboration with renowned academic research institutions, pre-eminent hospitals and cutting-edge biotech companies.

Project Lifecycle Services LTD helps organisations and companies in the UK, internationally and overseas seeking to set up or expand in Cambridge.

Our comprehensive project and programme management services can be adapted to any project/programme environment.

We can provide operational support during peaks of work, or even run entire programmes and projects for you.

Our primary objective is to provide exceptional service and value for money and generate the best possible outcomes for our clients and the communities in which we work.

Project Lifecycle Services can manage all stages of a project/programme or enter the project timeline at different stages depending on the particular project or programme and/or your specific requirements.

Project Lifecycle Services Ltd specialises in project and programme management delivery, knowledge transfer and capability - building. From helping you apply best practice techniques to managing projects or programmes on your behalf, leaving you to concentrate on your core business. We work closely with you to help you achieve best results.

We can offer any or all of the following:

• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Risk Management
• Cost Management
• Planning
• Coaching
• Project / Programme Health Checks

Flexibility is what we offer!

There is sometimes confusion between the terms project management and program management.

Essentially, Projects are concerned with outputs and Programmes are concerned with outcomes.

A project is a temporary, scheduled, usually short-lived undertaking with specific time constraints to create a unique product or service and a programme is comprised of multiple projects usually related to one another, created to obtain broad organisational, strategic or technical objectives.

A project is designed to deliver an output or deliverable and its success will be in terms of delivering the right output at the right time and to the right cost.

Examples of projects could be:-

• The building of new laboratories, pharmaceutical manufacturing production facilities, cleanrooms or biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities
• The refurbishment of a building with all staff moved in and working
• The launch of a new product with a new sales and support team in place

Groups of projects (Programmes) are managed in order to drive essential investments and change.

Programme Managers deal with Project Managers, as well as upper management/high profile stakeholders.

Programme Management includes management of projects which, together, improve the performance of the organisation. A programme's success will be measured in terms of benefits.

Benefits are the measures of improvement of an organisation and might include increased income, increased profits, decreased costs, reduced wastage or environmental damage and more satisfied customers. In central or local government organisations benefits might include providing a better service to the community.

Where Project Management Fits:

Whilst project management techniques and methods have long been a feature of industries such as engineering, these approaches are now widely applied across all types of organisations. Projects are often used to manage initiatives which span the traditional functional silos which exist in most organisations.

Project Managers will have many interfaces within an organisation - not least with the various stakeholders, including those who have sponsored the initiative.

Where there are multiple, simultaneous projects, Project Lifecycle Services can set up a PMO or Project Support Office to share specialist resources, and assist with routine project tasks.