Program Management - Desklib

Learn about the programme strategy, aspects, maturity model, governance structure, and strategic contribution of the Barnet regeneration programme. Find out its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats through SWOT analysis.

PROGRAM
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Programme strategy and analysis.................................................................................................3
Programme aspects......................................................................................................................4
Programme maturity components................................................................................................5
Programme maturity model.........................................................................................................6
Programme governance structure.................................................................................................7
Strategic contribution...................................................................................................................8
Summary......................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Programme management is the process which is used for the management of a certain
project. It contains all the principles of a management related to a specific project. In this report
the programme management is related to the urban regeneration. A regeneration programme is
the procedure which is use for improving the physical structures of the locality. It is also a way in
which the economy of the country is pumped up with the investments made by both government
or private efforts (Watt,2021). The Barnet regeneration programme is planned for delivering a
thousand of improved homes in London in between the time period of 2016 to 2021. According
to the government the success of this regeneration programme is based upon these three
principles, the engagement of the local community as the partners, increasing the local support
and leadership and also the willingness for working hard specially for the private sector. This
will allow the locality to gain access to commercial skills and also improve the level of
investment in the locality.
MAIN BODY
Programme strategy and analysis
Programme Strategy :
This programme utilizes an action research methodology which acts towards actions or
changes for performing research so that they can understand the subject along with their actions.
This strategy is generally a cyclic process which changes its course again and again between the
actions and critical reflection. In this programme where the plan is delivering new homes to the
locals in London the strategy revolves around the action research methodology. This is because
the for making so many changes the government has clearly said that the following of the
principles is very important. In the principles it has been mentioned that the success of this
programme will require the locals to give proper engagement to the programme and also the
private sector to work hard for achieving growth. This programme has to be following that
methodology as there is many uncertainties which will be faced by the people. This can affect the
decision-making of the council (Kim, Križnik and Kamvasinou, 2021).
Programme analysis :
For analysation of this Barnet Regeneration Programme the best framework that can be
used is SWOT analysis. This analysis will help in providing the details about the Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

Strengths :
The strengths of Barnet council and this regeneration programme of theirs has many
supporting factors which can affects their operations which will help them to provide their
programme the necessary strength which for accomplishing its goals. The magnitude of this
project is very high and thus the support it requires is from the local which will help it in being
successful.
Weaknesses :
The project will face issues with coordination. This will happen because the there will be
individuals which will have issues as the involvement of the individuals is very high. This is one
of the reason which signifies the importance group involvement in this programme. This project
will face issues related to funds as the required funds for the project is very high (Trono, Zerbi
and Castronuovo, 2017).
Opportunities :
The biggest opportunity for this programme is just the legacy of the programme which it
will create after the place gets successful. The biggest opportunity this programme is generating
is that it will improve the economy of the locality it will invest in. This will influences investors
to establish their business. Thus, it can be also said that this programme will provide a lot of
scope to the areas which will develop.
Threats :
Some threats it can face in its operations are any change in economy of the country can
affect this programme and its activities. Another one of the threats is related to the establishment
coordination with all the individuals which will be the part of the programme. Any disagreement
towards the programme can cause it to delay and also affect the time taken (Küpper and et.al.,
2018).
Programme aspects
This programme of Barnet council is very influential towards the impacts it makes over
the people for which it has planned its regeneration. For understanding how this programme does
it, the need for understanding its different aspects increases a lot. The major aspect to this
programme has been said to be the technology which is related to its building of home. With the
help of this programme the individuals will be helped with homes which will have technologies
which will make their operations very easy. Some other aspects are,

London Borough of Barnet :
This technology will help the individuals by providing them assistive technology for
improving the user experience of the new house owner. This technology will help specifically the
people who are disabled by providing support related living facilities (Lovatt, 2017).
Essex County council :
In this programme the technology which will help the users with their assistance of
individual short term support. This is the process by which the programme will provide the re-
enablement of services and support.
This programme has been planned in such a way that it will provide the users
independence and more of a personalized care and also makes sure that the users of this
programme will be able to gain quick responses. This reduction of the non elective admission
allows the users to enhance their experience. The improvement of the medical facility in the
locality which is meant to be improved will help the individuals with improved health and
medical care management. The involvement of the technology to these services will reduce the
need of physical presence of the individuals. This will be with the help of video calling which
will allow the individuals ways for improving the reassurances of their family and reduction
towards their social isolation and other services. In this programme their will be an individual
assessment which will ensure the best technology for a given user (Barnet London, 2021).
Programme maturity components
The main motive of this programme is regeneration of the homes and implementation of
new and development in the locality with the help of technology and other investment. However,
the maturity of this programme will be better understood when the programme will be successful
in understanding the potential savings and cost avoidances which became a challenge for
measuring the outcome of it. This process of the programme will include the position localization
of the system which will bottleneck monitor the digital technology and help in enabling the
efficiencies of the organization. By the help of measuring the time which the programme takes or
will take the maturity and the behavioural changes which the company gets will also be
understood by the work of the system. The components will be measured in the following
pattern, Another component for this would be that Barnet will make sure that it is being
successful in delivering the quality towards building the new homes and neighbourhoods to the
people for their investment and renewal (Moya and Yáñez, 2021). It will be the duty of the

council to deliver the individuals sustainably towards the goals of their infrastructure. Barnet's
aim would be to make sure the residents of this area will be sharing the success of this
programme for making sure that their families are well and good. It will be the responsibilities
of the council to promote the economic growth of this locality for making sure about the
economic growth by supporting the local and their businesses. It will also be important for the
council to provide the residence to gain required skills so that they can work and gain new skills
for employment.
Programme maturity model
For the achievement of the maturity from the operation of this council. This programme
will need to first summarize its activities. In relating to all the work it needs to develop strategies
and key priorities which with the maturity model of the programme. For increasing the priority
of supply of the house this programme will need to prove more towards the home development.
This can be improved by taking survey which will access the affordably of the houses and find
out the issues which can affect the concerned people and their demonstration towards the
importance of the increasing the supply of the houses (Tubridy, 2021). The maturity of this
programme model will include the delivering of the homes to people which can afford them.
Therefore, there is no point in building homes which the individuals of that place cannot afford.
This maturity model will also cover support related to the vulnerability of towards the people and
also to those people which are suffering from the disease of Dementia. The biggest part of the
maturity model will be providing social value to the homes of the Barnet council which will
benefit the economy and its growth, for housing and their responsible for the generation and also
their indispensability of the community which will provide new homes and jobs for delivering
the residents love and support towards their newly made home.
Usage and feedback:
In the starting of the project only it has identified that labours can create issues because partners
were aware that they are planning to go for strike and it can be also observed that there are
technology related issues has also raised. At the execution stage regeneration programme has
witnessed delay due to the labour only. So in the future if carrying this same project then
investors or partners must be careful and should identify every possible loopholes of the project.

Programme governance structure
Programme governance is designed in order to make program strategy and also monitor
them. Programme governance boards are also made which shows organisation interests into the
program and the board is made by executives of the company (Caldwell, 2018). It includes
procedure which are as follows:
local investment programme:
Barnet councils, national government association, local government association and Argent and
Hammerson are going to participate in the investment programme. Barnet councils want to carry
regeneration programme because they want to revive societies by providing them residents to
live and they will also provide work space to do their business. This scheme will provide 20000
new houses by 2029. it is the initial stage which will give information that who are the parties
which will going invest in this programme.
Planning:
Planning is the most important stage because at this stage it will decide that how the activities of
the programme will be completed and who will complete that (Greenwood and Hinings, 2017).
Costs of the programme is also identified at this stage. In this regeneration programme, planning
will involve local government association and Barnet councils. This is the very important stage
because wrong planning can lead to project failure. Planning include most important parties of
the programme as it is the crucial stage so that is why any wrong decision can be harmful for the
investors.
Execution:
after planning of the programme has been done properly then it is the time of executing the
programme. If programme has to make successful then execution has to be make as per planning.
In the regeneration programme parties which execute this project are Barnet councils and Argent
and Hammerson will going to execute this project. These two parties are the main party in this
programme and they are also included at the execution stage (Steenstra and et.al., 2020).
Partners:
Argent and Hammerson and Standard Life are the partners which are involved in the
regeneration programme. They are partners which are also present at investment programme and
at executive stage. Big projects cannot be planned or monitored by one party as they requires
different parties who can invest in the project.

Overseeing:
local government association will going to oversee the programme. As at this stage one party
amongst the investment group will review that the project is running as per planning or not and if
they find that it is not processing as per planning then they can raise issue and ask to make
changes.
Close down:
Service users and their families will use the houses and will start living in them (August, Chen
and Zhu, 2021).
Strategic contribution
Regeneration programme benefits:
financial factors:
it has been observed that cost saving has been done in the project by reducing unnecessary
activities at the planning process. As at planning stage there are several activities which was
allocated costs but at the execution time it has noticed that those activities are of no use so that is
why it gets eliminated. As labours has reduced because the number of labours which was given
at planning stage was not needed.
Parameters and constraints:
It is found that data collection is considered as challenging because it is time consuming and also
require huge costs. Also building 20000 new homes is not the easy task. As making houses
involves long procedure and also to make 20000 houses is not the easy deal.
Human resources factors:
As it is the large project so it requires many people in it. People who are involved in this are
investors, partners, contractors, labours, office staff, house owners etc. before executing the
project parties has explained their role in the project. It can be seen that main role in the project
is of investors who have invest money in the project and they were also involved in the planning
process which is considered as one of the important stage. At the executive level contractors and
labours are played important role. As houses will be constructed by labours only. Contractors
will provide raw materials to the labours and labour will construct houses (Fernandes and et.al.,
2020).
Complexity factors:

Technology can be said as the complex factors as it changes very quickly. But adopting
advanced technology can also benefit to the project. As technology have many options and it
makes work easy, fast and accurate. With the help of technology Barnet councils can tell
architect to make design and show that to them. If Barnet councils did not gets happy with the
house design then they can ask architect to change it and make it new. As architect is making
deign by using computer and various tools, so he or she can easily make changes in the design.
Summary
Findings
It has been observed that in the regeneration programme there are some activities which
has caused some issues. While project was running only and in the meanwhile labour strike has
also took place. As a result labour did not came for work for almost 6 months which has delay
complete project. Evolving technology is also an issue because every time adopting advanced
technology. It has also seen that some of the activities did not get started on the decided date
because of the delay which has occurred due to re procurement of services. In the complete
project limited knowledge of technology was available. Technology helps in increasing the speed
of the project and also provides solution to many problems (Samphire, 2020). It can be said that
project will not get complete at the given time because of various delays has caused in various
activities.
Recommendations
there are several recommendations which can be given, recommendations are as follows:
Giving accessible information packets to the residents among all tenures. It should be make sure
that every offers from the starting only must be clear and easy to understand and it can be done
by sending concise letters which consists of information. Identification should be done in regards
of vulnerable residents at initial stage only so that if they require any extra support then it can be
provided via CPO regeneration process. People who are taking this project should be make sure
that proper communication should be done with stakeholders and with community. As
consultation must be done with stakeholders so that they will also get idea that what will be
going to happen in the project and can give their views on it.
Partnership should be done with local people so that to make strategy for that area will get easily
and government will also easily give permission because of the presence of local partner.
Providing showrooms to the secure tenants. Proper planning should have done with the

partnership board activities of earlier year only so that information management assistance can
get. While doing the regeneration project West Hendon's history should have been incorporated.
At the planning stage only problem must be identified and should have been discussed with
stakeholders in order to get effective solutions for the issue. It is recommended that this project
require more guidance and also support from various stakeholders who can monitor the progress
of the project. Teams which are involved in the governance process should have also create more
awareness of the project. If people will get aware of the project then only they will come and
purchase the project (Zwikael and Smyrk, 2019). As the effectiveness of project is required but
awareness of the project is also needed. If project will gets completed and no one will come to
purchase it then it will be of no use so that is why awareness is must and most required.
Conclusion
From this report it can be concluded that Barnet council with the help of their partners
will going to start the project which is regeneration schemes which will going to provide 20000
brand new houses to the people. It will include both residential as well as commercial space so
people will live their and also can work their. Project has discussed that how Barnet council will
going to complete this project by 2029. as it is the big project and not easy to complete. This
program has used action research methodology so that can get help from the local bodies. The
biggest strength of this program is it is getting support from local government. While starting the
project training has been given to the workforce so that can know about their role. Investors in
the programme are Barnet council, local government, national authority etc. as technology has
act as complex factors because of its changing nature. Reports has also evaluated various
recommendations.

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