The Major Projects Association is a community of practice for organisations engaged in the initiation and delivery of major projects, programmes and portfolios. ​ The Association is home to those organisations and individuals that share a common purpose: the desire to hone their skills; to improve best practice; and to investigate innovative solutions for the many problems encountered during major projects, programmes and portfolios. ​ Membership comprises organisations engaged in a wide variety of commercial and public enterprises. They operate in a wide variety of fields including: manufacturing, construction, defence, transportation, IT, government departments, consultancies and law, as well as those engaged in the academic study of major projects.

Providing exec level independent project advice and assurance.

Head of Project & Programme Capability. We help you manage change better - quicker, for less money, with greater impact and improved stakeholder confidence. We help raise confidence to senior executives, stakeholders, regulators and shareholders that time and effort invested will yield the desired results.We do this by applying a maturity modelling approach: understanding the context in which you deliver your initiatives, understanding current capability, identifying the capability you need and then jointly identifying and prioritising what will make the biggest impact on delivery performance. Where needed we also provide advice and assistance in implementing the changes needed to gain the capability you seek.Our range of services include:• Capability assessments for projects, programmes and portfolios• Capability improvement• Assurance and health-checks• Project/programme initiation • Portfolio definition and reviews• PMO design and establishment• Development and embedment of bespoke frameworks and methods• Provision of standard frameworks/methods through our Outperform Toolkit Whether it’s a project or programme in difficulty or you want to raise overall organisational capability our consultants can help.Our consultants are recognised as leaders in their fields of expertise and have been at the heart of the development of internationally recognised best practice guidance such as P3M3®, PRINCE2®, APM’s Body of Knowledge, APM’s Governance of Co-owned Projects and HM Treasury’s Project Initiation Routemap. We are not theorists though – we were chosen to develop these guides through our experience as practitioners and track record of embedding sustainable capability in organisations.RSM is a corporate member of the Major Projects Association (MPA), the Association for Project Management (APM) and is an Axelos Consulting Partner (ACP).

*In 2015 Outperform was acquired by RSM UK*Outperform helps clients improve their Bid, Project, Programme or Portfolio Management performance. Our consultants are recognised internationally for their expertise in developing and embedding best practice methods and frameworks such as MSP® (programmes), P3M3® (maturity models), IUK Routemap (initiating complex projects/programmes), PRINCE2® (projects).Services ranged from ‘light-touch’ assessments (e.g. health-checks) through initiating complex change (e.g. complexity assessments), to comprehensive capability building (e.g. embedding methods) - all delivered by qualified consultants recognised as leaders in their field of expertise. At Outperform we pride ourselves on our can-do will-do approach, a deep rooted respect for quality processes and building long-lasting mutually beneficial client relationships.Example Assignments:* Lead Author for the PRINCE2 2009* Co-Author of IUK Project Initiation Routemap* Co-Author of P3M3 v3* Founder of Middle East PPM community of practice.* P3M3 Maturity Assessments for British Council, Oracle, SunGard, Dolphin Energy, MoD, Royal Navy, Dstl, London Underground and numerous local authotities and charities* Project Assurance for Dolphin Energy (Abu Dhabi), Newham NHS PCT, Sun Microsystems* Helping Embed MSP in a number of organisations such as Sellafield, Standard Bank and local authorities.* Assisting the National Audit Office (NAO) conduct their Value for Money study of the 2012 Olympic Games* Designing and implementing Investment Governance for Transport For London (TfL)* Designing and implementing Investment Governance for Mubadala

Co-founder, WPM Solutions Ltd. Grew business from 2 to 45 people.Key clients: Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Nokia, BT, Vodafone, Local authorities, charities.Key services: bid and project management capability development, audit, assurance, risk management, governance (SOX)