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The Arras Circle, whilst offering a simple initial view of a project lifecycle, and identifying the possible support structure, also provides a clear approach to the steps required. Wherever you are on this roadmap Arras can deliver experienced professional to work with your teams to create an environment where your people can deliver the required results in a controlled, supportive and risk aware environment.

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Project Closure: So the project has delivered, the team have stepped down, have you really closed the project? Closure is more than an end point, it is the opportunity to analyse the process, check the results, analyse your benefits realisation, and capture the lessons learned so that they can be used in the future. Getting Started: The key stage in any project? Setting direction, ensuring strategic alignment of the business and its change initiative (project). This may include; business case development, establishing the governance framework, setting the vision, values and expectations, identifying the associated risks, developing the benefits statement. Innovation: The provision of talented consultants who use a combination of a creative environment, solid business tools & processes and advances in learning techniques to stimulate successful innovation within and between organisations. We can design, choreograph and guide participants through an open and creative environment to learn new insights, explore potential business concepts, filter ideas, analyse their validity, and plan their implementation. Project Initiation: You all know and share the goals of the project? Setting out the detailed plan for the project in a form that is easily communicated to the sponsors, project board and team members. This phase may include establishing the roles and responsibilities, project controls, product (deliverables) definition, quality plan etc. All brought together with a project kick-off meeting Procurement: Are you prepared? Your project may require that you go to the marketplace to procure goods and services. This may be a sub-project in its own right, developing requirements documentation, creating and processing Invitations to Tender (ITT) and then processing supplier's responses through to final contract. Project Execution: The project manager and his support team must deliver. Plans, reporting and tracking, risk management, issue management, vendor management and so much more. All this on top of making sure that the project delivers the desired outcome at the right quality, within budget and at the right time. Change Management: Change doesn't happen, it should be planned for! This key element is so often overlooked when starting a project, but ultimately it can be the difference between success and failure. There are may activities to be undertaken; to prepare the organisation to accept the planned change; to manage the planned transition in order to get the realisation of the projects goals and objectives. Programme Manager: Experienced professionals capable of leading and supporting the delivery of multiple projects be it part of a specific programme of work, a portfolio sub-projects. Project Manager: Experienced professionals with the skills to lead, direct and deliver a project. Creatively working within the constraints of time, budget and performance parameters to deliver the projects objectives. Project Support: Knowledgeable, team players who enable your project team members to concentrate on the key aspects of their roles. Project support helps in creating and maintaining a controlled, supportive and risk aware environment for your project.