QA-IQ delivers leading Project Management training programme
with Manchester City Council
21 February, 2008
QA-IQ, the UK’s
leading learning company, has been engaged by Manchester City
Council to develop and deliver the training for its leading
project management programme as part of a three-year
contract.
To ensure consistency and reliability in the delivery or major
projects, the City Council has developed a public sector
tailored model for project management. This model, the
“Manchester Method” is widely used by others within both the
public and private sector.
QA-IQ has worked with the City Council to update the Manchester
Method, to reflect the growing diversity of projects which the
council delivers. This new version is being supported by
training modules which focus on the different roles within the
methodology, developed and delivered
by QA-IQ.
Manchester City Council’s Strategic Planner, Kevin
Fletcher, explains; “Strong project management skills
are central to achieving the ambitious plans for the City of
Manchester. Our aim is to achieve better outcomes for the
people of Manchester through the effective delivery of
projects. Our initial priority was capital projects, however we
have now widened the scope of our project management approach
to include change projects within service delivery.
“We selected QAIQ as our training provider due to their
industry experience, cost effective delivery and their desire
to help us achieve a higher level of project maturity within
the organisation.”
Head of the Project and Programme Management Practice
at QA-IQ, Steve Moran, adds; “This is a great
opportunity to deliver the innovation that will help take
Manchester City Council to another level of project management
maturity. The Manchester Method is recognised across the
industry as a tailored working model for project
management and the new version will provide further
‘real-world’ organisational challenges in every project
undertaken. This is something that QA-IQ feels is central to
the success of all training, making this programme a great fit
for our expertise. We are working with the council over the
next three years to evolve and maintain an industry-leading
programme.”
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