Project Risk Assessment demonstrator - Step 3
With an appreciation of the management culture and process capability of the organisation, we can now look at the project being planned and assess how it fits with the capability of the organisation.
Step 3: Project Complexity
With your project in mind, try working out the relevant number to allocate to the three factors, P, A and T:
P = Number of People or stakeholders
(e.g. those represented on steering and project groups)
A = Number of business Activities or processes that will be affected
T = Expected implementation timescale in months
(from issue of spec/ITT to planned completion)
Don’t worry about getting all the numbers absolutely right – an approximation will do for the purpose of the exercise.
To calculate your project's complexity score, multiply P x A x T. Then look at where this places your project on the scale below.
A score above 1000 means your project is more complex than you perhaps were expecting. Think about whether you have sufficient resources allocated to delivring the benefits.
If your complexity score is 2500 or higher, you may need to reconsider whether the project needs splitting up into a programme.
Projects of this complexity are unlikely to be fully successful in an immature organisation i.e. level 1 or 2 Management Capability and anything lower than level 3 Process Capability, so the relative relationship between project complexity and organisational capability needs to be brought into focus.
Find our about this in Step 4.