Project set up toolkit
Author(s): Infrastructure and Projects Authority
Issued: 18 October 2022
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Project Routemap
An early intervention to understand the project capabilities needed to succeed.
Project Routemap is part of the IPA’s toolkit for successful project set up. It helps sponsors and clients understand the capabilities needed to set projects up for success, incorporating learning from other major projects and programmes.
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Successful project set up can take more time at the start but this is repaid many times over in delivery. It is proven that projects that focus on early stage capability development are much more likely to achieve their intended outcomes.
Routemap provides an early intervention that supports this 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 its various elements. The modules offer guidance on the most common challenges for projects and explore good practice to identify and address gaps in capability.
You can either apply it as a structured process across the full scope of your project or to explore a particular area in more detail. Alternatively you can just use the modules as standalone reference guides to identify relevant good practice from other projects.
Routemap has been used by many of the UK’s biggest, complex and most high-profile projects since its first publication in 2014. The benefits vary depending on the project and range from selection of the most appropriate delivery model, to clearer governance arrangements and speedier decision-making.
Project Routemap – setting up projects for success
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Provides, at a glance, information on what Routemap is, how to use it and how it works.
Factsheet | 15 July 2021 | This link takes you to GOV.UK
Project Routemap factsheet (HTML)
Provides, at a glance, information on what Routemap is, how to use it and how it works.
Factsheet | 15 July 2021
Explains in depth what Routemap is and how to use its various elements.
Handbook | 28 February 2022
Modules
Organisational design and development module
Delivering strategic project outcomes and realising the benefits
Module | 04 November 2021
Managing uncertainties and opportunities.
Module | 04 November 2021
Delivering strategic project outcomes and realising the benefits.
Module | 04 November 2021
Balancing costs and risks to maximise whole life benefits.
Module | 04 November 2021
Establishing clear accountability and empowering effective decision-making.
Module | 04 November 2021
Readying the project for transition into delivery.
Module | 22 February 2022
Understanding how the project will buy goods and services.
Module | 04 November 2021
Making multiple systems work as one.
Module | 04 November 2021
Case studies
Case Study | 22 June 2023
Product Information
Collection Project set up toolkit
Delivery vehicle Appraisal, Definition, Delivery, Feasibility, Programme, Project
Practice Benefits Management, Environment and sustainability, Governance, Information and data management, Learning from experience, Planning, Planning and Control, Procurement and contract management, Resource, capacity and capability management, Risk and issue management, Solution Delivery, Solution design
Product type Tools, templates and techniques, Workbooks and guides
Updates
Update to handbook NEW IPA Delivery Planning Module updated
Revised handbook published
Publication of updated modules
Updated modules published
Factsheet updated
Updated with: Asset Management Module - Improving Infrastructure Delivery: Project Initiation Routemap Risk Management Module - Improving Infrastructure Delivery: Project Initiation Routemap An updated handbook An updated fact sheet Governance module Requirements module Execution Strategy module ODD module Procurement module
First published
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