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Modernising defence through projects, with Army Portfolio Director Kris Baldy · Project Podcast

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Welcome to the APM Podcast, brought to you by The Chartered
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Body for the Project profession. This episode is part of our
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series of Senior Leader interviews hosted by APM Chief
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Executive Professor Adam Bodison.
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This time Adam is speaking to Chris Baldy, Army Portfolio
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Director at the UK Ministry of Defence.
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Chris shares his journey through the ranks of the civil service,
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including his rise from admin assistant to portfolio director
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and how he, in his own words, stumbled into project
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management. Projects and programmes, Chris
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says, are central to tackling the main challenges facing the
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army, including the modernisation of vital
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equipment. None of that is possible without
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a pipeline of talented project professionals entering the
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Ministry of Defence. And Chris tells Adam about the
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department's approach to growing and developing its project
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talent base, while reminding us that you don't have to be in
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uniform to deliver projects in the Army.
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Good afternoon, Chris, and welcome to the APM Podcast.
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It's a real pleasure to have you here today, hot off the heels of
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my recent visit to Army HQ. So welcome.
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Thank you, Adam. To start with, I wondered if you
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might tell us a little bit about your career journey, Chris, and
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how you came to be Head of Portfolio Management for the
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Army within the Ministry of Defence.
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Yeah, of course. So portfolio management is a is
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a function is is part of my role.
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I've got a part of my role that's also in the head of
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professional space for the wider P3M.
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So it's a it's a dual role that tracks along P3M.
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So I'm a career civil servant. I joined the civil service as a
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as an admin assistant and I guess as you hear quite a lot of
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people talk around kind of stumbled into project management
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and and never looked back. So took the opportunity that was
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handed to me, probably more than more years than I'd like to
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admit, a go to do some of the kind of entry level training
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courses into into the function and then using that training.
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Into a bit more specialist roles within project delivery.
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So I've been a risk manager and I've been a a scheduler working
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across a whole load of different diverse projects which which we
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often see in in Defence. And then when portfolio
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management became a bit more into focus in the last kind of
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5-6 years, I took the opportunity to set up the
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infrastructure organisations portfolio, which then took me
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into having done that into the army space.
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So just to be clear, sometimes on these podcasts I've heard
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about people who are accidental project professionals.
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You know, they just woke up one day and realised the jobs they
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were doing was a project role. It was that the case with you
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then or or was it quite a deliberate move from that kind
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of admin starting point through into projects?
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I'm not sure. I quite woke up realised I was a
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project professional. I think as I kind of went
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through my my first role that was aligned to kind of the
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infrastructure world, I then quite quickly got into a role
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that was more associated to projects and programmes and was
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lucky enough to be working for someone.
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That then introduced it as you realise what this is, this is
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about. Project management.
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Why don't you go and do some of this training?
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Yeah, no, it's it's on. Sounds brilliant.
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And of course we hear a lot about projects and programmes,
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but I I suppose there's, there's probably a lot of misconceptions
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out there about what kinds of projects and programmes are
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taking place in the army and within your portfolio.
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I wonder if you could tell us a bit more about that.
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In terms of what the Army are doing in the portfolio I cover,
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hopefully it won't be a surprise to hear that we cover a whole
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load of things from those heavy vehicles.
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So in layman's terms, tanks, some of the lighter, more mobile
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vehicles, some are Range Rover or a quad bike all the way up to
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helicopters, which again is something that some people kind
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of find odd. Why the Army buying helicopters?
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There's certain variants that are that are bought through the
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Army system, which is the Chinooks and you're Apaches.
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There's also firing systems, so things like ground to air
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defence, as well as all of the communication bits that link all
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those things together. And then also there's the the
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true integrators. So if a Army unit were to
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deploy, they need to make sure they've got power and water.
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All of those sorts of things. So effectively if if you can
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think of anything that the army might need to deploy to afford
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forward based operation, it's bought by the portfolio, is
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bought in the portfolio. And what would you say the main
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challenges are then facing the army?
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And what's the role, I suppose, of projects and programmes in
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solving some of those issues? The short answer to to that is
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that projects and programmes sit at the centre of solving
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problems at the army currently face and that kind of challenge
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sits around the army's equipment which I described previously has
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been under invested in in in for many years with a lot of it
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going out of service either in the next kind of 2-3 years or
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slightly longer term. So project and programmes at the
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centre of the army's modernisation agenda and this is
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around replacement of of some of that equipment in terms of
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modernising, so buying a lot of the same stuff but just newer,
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but also buying new vehicles so. The recognised infantry
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programme which is buying the box of vehicle which is one of
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the large vehicles, which is which is wheeled rather than
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tracks, so kind of at the very centre.
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Of of solving that problem. And another problem we have,
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which isn't unusual across a lot of industries, is around finding
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project delivery professionals and recruiting them.
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I've been in the project profession 2 years now.
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Myself and everywhere I go, everybody's talking about we've
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got to learn lessons from previous projects and then apply
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them to projects going forward. What I'm things I've been trying
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to do is to drill down into that a bit more, in a bit more detail
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and get a sense of, well, what are those key lessons.
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So I suppose what I'm interested to ask you about is what are the
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key lessons in relation to project leadership that you've
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learned through your role leading a portfolio at the MOD?
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So learning of lessons and cycling those back through is is
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a is a problem. We often have a mentality if you
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finish something you move on to the next thing without learning
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and feeding that back in. I think one of the things that
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I've learned through doing that project leadership and then
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going into portfolio management is around making sure we take
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time at the start of a project to really get the foundation
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set. Because not only does that
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improve your chances of delivering the the project or
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the programme successfully, you've got a much better dock
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into the portfolio. Could I just ask just in
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practical terms, how, how, how you do it?
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Because I guess I'm thinking you've got lessons learned, uh,
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kind of leadership level. You've got lessons learned on
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individual projects and programmes that are going on
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right across the army and and probably more broadly across the
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defence. That's a lot of lessons.
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I mean, how do you, just, in practical terms, gather all of
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that intelligence together and make sure the right things are
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pulled out for the right kind of future projects?
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Use of technology is is really important and whether that be on
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a kind of really simple repository type system where you
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kind of record what's the lesson and what type of of programme
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because what we have through our.
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Assurance processes is when we get a new programme dropped in
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from the strategic centre, there's a a really quick kind of
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Chequers, you know what we're doing here.
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Is this one of the? Helicopters.
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Is it? Is it a heavy, Is it a light
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vehicle? And being able to then get after
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those lessons that have been learned through previous
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projects of the same and putting that through a gated review to
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make sure there's a check. Have you learned the lessons
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from XY&Z? And just while talking about
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kind of great project leaders, obviously I've I've met you a
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few times, I've met some of your team, obviously some really
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talented project leaders there. So you you must know, therefore,
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what the characteristics and traits are of a great project
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leader. What what?
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What? What would you say those are?
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So if I kind of stick to the rule of three, I think the
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incredible. So I think there's definitely
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something around there's a leader being credible to be able
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to talk around your experiences and then also being able to lean
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in and support when when needed. Transparency is super important.
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Have been really open and honest around successes, but also the
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challenges and not being afraid to kind of flag when there's a
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problem. And I think there's also third
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one being around being adaptable.
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So being able to get the best out of people when there's
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pressure or things go wrong. So I think the other thing that
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I find certainly in the defence context and even more so in a in
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a context which is split between military and civilian, there
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needs to be an adaptable approach to how you lead people,
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because there's lots of different people, lots of
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different kind of drivers, certainly in the defence
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context. And you've raised a really
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important point there, Chris, which I wonder whether some of
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our listeners might not be aware of around the military and
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civilian mix, if you like, within the project profession,
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within the Army, because it's people might think, well it's
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only military project professionals, but you've got
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both. Haven't you did want to say a
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bit more about that and how that works?
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So we've got a a split of military and civilian in a
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workforce of around 650 and there's about 60% civilian, 40%
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military. And when I say military is Army
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Navy and the Royal Air Force, although predominantly in the
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Army space. We do have some Royal Navy and
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Royal Air Force colleagues in some of our aviation programmes
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that I described earlier. So that comes with a really
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interesting challenge around, as you described earlier, the
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accidental project delivery professional.
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And we find that our military colleagues often get posted into
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project delivery roles and they don't realise that they're in a
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project delivery professional. Context or environment until
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they turn up on day one. What what's your assessment of
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the maturity and professionalisation of the
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project delivery community across the Army, and and how
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would you say that's aligned to the MOD more broadly?
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It's one of those things that it's good, it's getting better,
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it's in progress but there's still plenty to do.
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We often hear the kind of the bad news stories and defence
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procurement but I think our our maturity in in the army and and
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in fact through defence is is pretty good through our kind of
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central work, the project delivery functions got a pretty
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strong strategy. It's currently being refreshed
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just because they do it in four yearly chunks rather than every
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year and that links quite strongly into the the central
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government's vision for accreditation.
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So it's a really exciting time to be in the in the profession,
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in in defence and and broader government.
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We talked earlier on about recruitment is a real challenge.
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We know that. I can't remember the exact
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statistic now, but it's it's something like we're gonna need
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88,000,000 project professionals globally by 20-30.
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I mean, I mean, we're clearly nowhere near that.
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So it's a challenge for everybody.
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But I'm interested to know what the MOD, and maybe more
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specifically the Army, are doing to make sure there's that real
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healthy pipeline of talented project professionals coming
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into the Army. So from a defence perspective,
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we've got the project delivery fast stream, we've got
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apprenticeship groups in terms of how you come into the
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department and also options for when you're in the department
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and you can kind of join it. So defences, I'm doing a lot of
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work in terms of what we're doing in in the army space,
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we're trying to up our brand. So one of the things that I've
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pushed really, really hard since being imposed is how do we get
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out and you know publicise the the army of delivering some
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really purposeful programmes that can make a real impact.
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And some of that is around engagement with the APM, go into
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the conference in in Birmingham planning to go to to future
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conferences. Outreach to universities, but
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also getting the fundamentals right around how do we advertise
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our roles, How do we make sure that it's understandable.
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So a point you made earlier around and there'll be a lot of
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people out there that think that people in uniform deliver our
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programmes, it's absolutely not the case.
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So how do we make sure that we advertise in a way that kind of
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draws people in and they understand kind of what the
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offer is and being really clear around what that training offer
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is? Because I think one of the
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things that defence do, and this isn't just about the army, is we
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invest in people and so we'll invest in people's training.
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So being really clear around what that.
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That routine is and then linking it to the the IPA's functional
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strategy around accreditation. So it's it's really about making
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sure that we've got the professional identity within the
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project delivery profession and there's a really clear offer.
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And I think the other thing that's really important is, as
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you say, there's a big demand for project delivery
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professionals and there will be people out there that have got
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some training, got some experience in project delivery.
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And there'll also be some people out there that don't have that
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project, every training or experience, but we'll have an
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awful lot of transferable skills and have an aptitude for
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learning. I think it's really important
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that we're tapping into those people.
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To bring them into the profession and help them
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understand how they can develop and kind of move forward into
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the profession into more senior roles.
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Yeah. So I think this is a really
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clear message from you there, isn't it?
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So it's almost like actually at any career stage, whether you
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are starting out and you need that investor someone to invest
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in you in the training side or whether you are more advanced in
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your career, maybe you're looking to switch sectors or
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switch professions. There's multiple entry points
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here, isn't it? So this is going to be a kind of
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a pretty broad spectrum of people that can enter the
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profession here. Absolutely.
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Yeah absolutely we've we've got again I I can probably talk
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around kind of wider defence but certainly in the army roles that
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are kind of entry come and learn from the kind of day one week 1
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all the way up to come and be a senior responsible owner.
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So Chris, I know that you've recently been going through the
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process to achieve Chartered Project professional status your
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yourself and I I think the results are have have come out
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very recently and and I understand you were successful
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and you've joined our Stella list of Chartered Project
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Professional. So many many congratulations.
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Thank you. One of the things I wanted to
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ask because you there will be other people in your
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organisation who are either going through that process to
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become chartered already or thinking about, you know, is
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this something that they should do?
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Have you got any advice or somebody who's fresh out of that
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process about any learnings that you've got from going through
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that or things that you wish you'd done differently maybe as
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you were preparing for that process?
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Yeah, so I followed route one, which I think is probably the
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middle of the road in terms of going through the process.
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So I had to do a professional practise interview and I didn't
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have to do the technical stuff because I had a pre-existing
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qualification. But I think it stands in terms
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of the preparation for that. There's a network of people that
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are going through at defence level.
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So using those people has been really important and having gone
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through it slightly ahead of others, I think my advice has
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been don't over prepare for the interview part of of the
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process. It's one of those things that
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the knowledge is in there you've just got to get it out and
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coherent way and to over preparing is is is not.
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A good way of going because it's it's just questions around the
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experience that you've you've got already.
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So it's a challenging process, should be challenging, but also,
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you know, I think as I can say now, really rewarding when you
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get through the other side. I wonder if you might just talk
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a little bit about the overall approach to training and
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development for project professionals and and how that
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links in with with APMS Chartered Project Professional
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status. Yeah.
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So I think this is an area where defence are really strong and I
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think in terms of how we link into the IPA's accreditation
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system, which the higher level of credit accreditation needs
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the chartership standard to be to be part of that.
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So we are certainly starting to push from a defence perspective.
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There's been two cohorts of of about 30 senior leaders just
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gone through a pilot process across the fence that were
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supported through the charter journey.
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I'm now starting to think about how we do that for the Army
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again a senior cohort within the Army to push through that the
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the Chartered standard. Because as it links to the
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defence and then onward into wider government process and
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thinking we're starting to push more people through the
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chartered route. And I think in terms of kind of
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wider training, I think it's not just about going on training
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courses. There's also the the Seventy
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2010. So experience mentoring and kind
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of formal training and making sure that breakdown is really
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clear. Because we find a lot of people
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that kind of go on a course and come back and say I'm now an
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expert in risk management because I've done the risk
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management course. What they mean is they've done
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the risk management course. They need to learn and and get
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the experience of being a risk manager.
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So in terms of chartership then that's all to do with how it
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links him with the IPA, the infrastructure and project
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authorities expectations and and actually that's something that's
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happening cross government. So.
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So getting that chartership is is also a passport to other
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public sector roles and private sector roles of course, and vice
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versa those who've already got chartership elsewhere.
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That could be really attractive in terms of helping somebody to
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come and join your team and add value at at the right level.
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Absolutely. So I think I think it's the
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first time that we've now got a really clear understanding of
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how we can read across as you say not just other government
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departments but also into kind of the wider sectors that
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support us and people coming in. So.
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So I think the the chartered standard is the thing that we're
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going to start to ask people to kind of demonstrate or be
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willing to work towards because that's the that's the common
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thread through all of the things that would be as part of a job.
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So if you're outside of of government and someone said be
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accredited to level acts, they won't understand that if we ask
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someone to be at the chartered standard level and we're willing
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to work towards. That's really understandable,
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understandable across the across the profession.
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One of my own insights into into the kind of maturity of the
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project profession more broadly, I suppose, is how people
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identify with the professional, with the role they do.
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So if I talk to people in very well established professions, I
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I don't know. Um.
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A chartered engineer, for example.
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And I. And I say to them, you know
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what? What do you know?
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What do you do? What's your role?
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They will say I'm an engineer and I work for the British Army,
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for example. But sometimes when they're
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project professionals, they identify more with the
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organisation before they do with their profession.
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So you know, they'll say I'm a project manager and I work for,
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you know, the National Health Service or you see what I mean?
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I think it's quite interesting. It's it's an interesting
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indicator I suppose, of the maturity of the sector and for
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me I'll be really excited the day when you ask somebody what
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they do and they say I'm a chartered project professional
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and I work for the British Army, for example, that would be
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really exciting. Yeah.
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No, it's interesting. It's one of the conversations
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that we've had in the head of profession space around, you
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know, similar to what you just said, how do you introduce
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yourself at a cocktail party? So someone says, he said what do
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you do? We're trying to push to say
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we're project delivery professionals.
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It just it happens we work in the Army Navy, so it's trying to
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push that kind of identity and that's part of our functional
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strategy. So part of that is how do we
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make sure that people kind of understand us against as you
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said? Some other the other professions
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within defence. If people were to be asked, it
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would be around the finance profession, the commercial
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profession really established long term professions, projects,
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really professional, still in its infancy.
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Sometimes I I I think of think of that as a real challenge for
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us. But I think as with all of these
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challenges there are also opportunities because because we
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don't have a very well worn path it means we can take the path
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where it where it needs to go where it's actually trying to
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change some of these other professions who are very well
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established. That's like trying to say and a
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super tanker you know it'll take a long long time.
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So I'm I'm always interested to watch you know over the next 10
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or 20 years um how the different professions will have matured
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and evolved over over that time. What about your role and and
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portfolio management within the MO D more broadly, Do you think
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that's going to go through a a big evolution over the next 10
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years? Is there going to be a lot of
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change? What do you think?
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So I think there will be, I think portfolio management being
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defence has been through a journey already.
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I see portfolio management continue to be an integral part
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of the kind of defence procurement because it provides
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that kind of P3M conscience to senior leaders.
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So if you make one decision, how does that impact another?
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So I think that's the really kind of important thing that
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portfolio manager management does, especially in a in an
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environment where the army will be making some decisions as will
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the Navy, the RAF and all the others.
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So they're all interlinked. So portfolio management becomes
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a really key role in that kind of bringing it to a defence
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level and being consistent And I think you know really driving
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decisions but also efficiencies in terms of how do we use some
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of the things that kind of sit at that portfolio level, say
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category management is one of the things.
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So how do we make sure that we're doing the right things
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properly, which I guess is a bit of a strap line from the kind of
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portfolio management doctrine? We've managed to get through a
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whole conversation, Chris, and we haven't talked at all about
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artificial intelligence and digitalization and you know the
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the conversations that are happening in every organisation
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all around the country right now.
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What what's your take on on on on all things digital and AI
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opportunity or threat? What's your assessment?
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So I think as with any any of these sorts of things there's a
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huge opportunity. But what comes with that is a a
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a threat as we always kind of see.
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I think you you kind of you see and and hear and you know pick
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up on conversations where you know people see a I as as a
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threat. And I think I've I've read lots
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of things recently where it talks about AI won't replace
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people. People use an AI will be the
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ones that replace the people that that don't.
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So I think there's a huge opportunity especially in an
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organisation that has a huge amount of data as defence do and
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that's that's varied in its quality and I think that's
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another threat in terms of you know how good is the quality of
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the data that we're using. But overall I think it's a it's
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a huge opportunity. I've seen some of the work
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that's been going on in in the central centre of of the defence
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department and it's it's huge it, it will allow us to again
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make those decisions at a portfolio level with a lot more
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confidence I think. On balance, I think you signed
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in quite optimistic about AI about the opportunities.
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Obviously you've identified some of the threats there as well.
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Do you think we should all be opportunistic as well and and
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positive? I think it was anything as big
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as this I think you need, you definitely need those kind of
23:54
people that are more cautious I guess in in any kind of change
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perhaps my brains going back to some of the things that I've
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learned through my career, you need those people that say Are
24:04
you sure, will it work, are we going down the right path.
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But I think it's also one of those things with the way that
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the world is going in terms of technology, it feels like
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something that's going to happen.
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And I guess my outlook on things are embrace it because I think
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it's inevitable, but make sure that whilst kind of embracing it
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that I can continue to kind of challenge to make sure that it
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is, is the right way to go. We've got people who've been
24:30
listening to this who are right at the beginning of their
24:32
career. Maybe they're already in the
24:34
project profession and they're just they they don't know what
24:38
things they should be doing to get on and really get on in
24:40
their career. Maybe they're thinking about
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entering the project management profession and aren't quite sure
24:46
where's a good place to start. What what advice would you give
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to them based on your obviously excellent career journey that's
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got you into this brilliant role.
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So again I think kind of rule of three.
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I think the first one would be be curious and challenge.
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So that's about challenging the people around you and yourself
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and kind of ask those questions that you perhaps think other
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people aren't or or are not The right questions I think are
25:12
really really important. One is don't be afraid of
25:14
failure. I think a lot of people see
25:16
failure as a a negative and this might be an odd thing to to say
25:19
out loud. But I think in my experience I
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think the things that I've learnt and the best lessons that
25:26
I've learned have been through things haven't gone well.
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And I think the third thing which I see a lot through, I
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guess my my day job, but also the head of professional or is
25:35
make sure you get the right level of balance between going
25:39
on training courses and getting experience.
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And I think that's a really important thing to to kind of
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take away is linking back to the second point experiences, the
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thing that tends to teach you the most.
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Chris, it's been a real pleasure to have you on the podcast
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today. Thank you so much for your time.
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I hope people have got a lot from listening to that.
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And I hope those people who have thought about but maybe not
26:04
acted on, but potential project career within the Army or indeed
26:07
the mod more broadly will pick up the mantle now and and and
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start looking at the the job sites and thinking about coming
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to join what what's on like some really exciting projects that
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are going on that. So, Chris, thank you very much.
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Thank you, Adam. Brilliant conversation.
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