Project routemap: organisational design and development module

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Projects are delivered by people working together in temporary teams. The diversity, skills, performance and interactions of these people will determine the project’s effectiveness. It is critical to think ahead about how to organise and develop them in the context of the specific project they are delivering.

Organisational design & organisational development are two distinct but interrelated aspects of successful project set up and delivery.

• Organisational design is more than just an organisation chart. It concerns the structure of the project team, the resources, working practices, behaviours and culture required to enable project delivery.
• Organisational development concerns the changes needed to implement the organisational design as a successful high performing team. It also covers the changes to develop the necessary organisational capabilities ahead of key transition points in a project’s life cycle. For example, when moving from definition to delivery, you may need to increase capability in construction management or health and safety performance monitoring.

The good practice in this module will help you establish the appropriate organisational design for your project through robust capability planning. It explores the challenges of bringing together multiple organisations to deliver a project; how to use resource planning tools to determine the optimal blend of in-house and external resource; and how they will work together as an integrated team. Building this team brings both the opportunity and responsibility to increase social value. A diverse and inclusive workforce can have a positive impact not only on society, but also the project’s performance (see good practice example 3).

This module also gives guidance on change management approaches to help build and embed the required organisational capability, and to ensure it remains fit for purpose as the project moves through its life cycle.

All the Routemap modules are designed in the same way, and each module includes guidance on how to use it. This is the contents for the procurement module:

• Introduction to the Routemap modules
• Cross-cutting themes projects can’t ignore
• Procurement, and why it’s important
• Typical findings
• Pillars of effective procurement
• Considerations
• Good practice examples
• Suggested further reading

This module can help to assess whether existing or proposed organisation arrangements are suitable for the scale and the complexity of your project. There is a strong link between this module and the governance module.

Routemap

Routemap provides an early intervention that supports effective project set up. It is a structured and tested methodology that ensures best practice and learning about the most common causes of project failure are considered at crucial early stages of development.

Routemap is a flexible set of modules 8 modules accompanied by a factsheet and handbook. The factsheet provides, at a glance, information on what Routemap is, how to use it and how it works. The Handbook explains in much more depth what the Routemap is and how to use apply it as a process. The modules offer guidance on the most common challenges for projects and explore good practice to identify and address gaps in capability. The modules can be used as part of the Routemap process or as standalone guides.

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Product Information

Collection Project Routemap

Delivery vehicle Appraisal, Definition, Programme, Project

Practice Governance, Management of organisational and societal change, Resource, capacity and capability management, Roles & Accountabilities, Solution Delivery

Product type Workbooks and guides

Updates

27 May 2022

First published.