Guidance
Resetting Major Programmes
What is a project or programme ‘reset’, what is considered and what does it mean to be ‘reset’?
This guide from Infrastructure and Projects Authority provides a high-level framework for project delivery professionals considering the need for a ‘reset’ of a project or programme, accounting or the wide range of different types of projects and programmes across the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and beyond.
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This guide from Infrastructure and Projects Authority provides a high-level framework for project delivery professionals considering the need for a ‘reset’ of a project or programme, accounting or the wide range of different types of projects and programmes across the GMPP and beyond. It recognises that the decision is informed by the judgement of the accounting officer, and in the case of GMPP projects and programmes from completing the Response to Red process supported by HM Treasury and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.
This guide was developed in response to recommendations made in 2023 by both the National Audit Office (NAO) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that government should publish guidance on ‘resets’.
The guide is aimed at project delivery professionals involved in decision-making on and implementing resets.
The main elements of the guide are:
- Context
- Focus on resetting successfully
- What is a ‘reset’?
- Different types of resets
- Phased approach to a reset
- Phase 1- Discovery: Identifying critical challenges and assessing the need for a reset
- Phase 2- Setting up for success: Developing a shared understanding of the way forward
- Phase 3- Delivery: Progressing with the planned reset aligning with objectives and time frames
- Annex A- Case Study 1: Department for Work and Pensions- Pensions Dashboards Programme
- Annex B- Case Study 2: Ministry of Defence Ajax Programme
- Annex C- Reset examples
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Delivery vehicle Appraisal, Definition, Delivery, Feasibility, Operation, Programme, Project
Practice Governance
Product type Workbooks and guides
Updates
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