All capital projects with an anticipated spend of over £5 million should be subject to a rigorous yet simple process of critical path analysis, followed by the appointment of a job-specific project manager. The job of the project manager is to ensure that at every stage in the delivery process, every possible impediment is identified and dealt with before delays can occur. This involves a team of professionals working to a defined programme and meeting, [Zoom and the like are perfectly appropriate], on a weekly or fortnightly basis to discuss as a team, how to forestall problems.
The project managers form a cadre and are responsible to a Cabinet ranked Project Management Co-ordinator.
The writer has some experience of these matters being a former Project Manager responsible for delivering Town Centre renewal projects.
It is blindingly obvious that a lack of professionalism and the absence of a clear delivery format have tended to derail the majority of government programmes before any expenditure is made.
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