Nina Hartley presentation, 18 September 2019, Plymouth, for the APM SWWE branch.

1. From Scientific Analysis
to APM Chartered
Project Professional:
The diverse community
of projects

2. Introduction
 Nina Hartley
 Geographical science BSc and Meteorological MSc
 PRINCE2, MSP, MOP Practitioner, Agile Project Leader,
APM RPP and ChPP
 Career spanning teaching, shop manager,
environmental consultancy and 17 years of project,
programme and portfolio management
 Currently Head of Commissioning Portfolio Office and
Head of P3M Profession, Met Office
 APM Volunteer

3. My project journey
Project Support (Y2K
communications project)
Junior Project Manager
(Forecasting the Nations
Health)
Project Manager (Fire
Risk service)
Senior Project Manager
(Weather Radar Network
Renewal)
Head of P3M Profession
(setting process, tools
and competency
standards)
Head of Portfolio Office
(Project and Programme
Assurance and efficiency)

4. Definitions
Equality
❖ Means giving everyone equality of
opportunity in line with their
needs
Diversity
❖ Can be described as the
differences that make people
unique
Inclusion
❖ Means involving people within a group or within society.
Discrimination
❖ Means to exclude people because of their differences. It
involves treating people differently because of assumptions
made about a person or group of people based on their
differences.
Source: Equality Act 2010

5. Protected Characteristics
under the Equality Act 2010
 Age
 Disability
 Gender reassignment
 Marriage and civil partnership
 Pregnancy & maternity
 Race
 Religion and/or belief
 Sex
 Sexual orientation

6. Diversity
opportunities
in projects
• Setting the objective
• Design the organisational structure
• Useful tools: Mandate/Brief, User journeys and personas
• Equality and diversity brings: different views of the benefits
Concept
• Stakeholder analysis and engagement
• Resource planning and activity scheduling
• Risk identification
• Budget setting and estimation
• Useful tools: stakeholder mapping, workshops, communications
platforms, planning poker
• Equality and diversity brings: different experiences, innovation and
creativity
Definition
• Team building
• Communications
• Risk Management
• Scheduling
• Useful tools: Project plans, communications platforms, highlight
reports, stand ups/meetings, burn down charts, backlogs and
registers
• Equality and diversity brings: different skills, risk mitigations,
delivery requirements
Develop
• Lessons learnt
• Performance review
• Benefits Realisation
• Useful tools: End project review, change logs, lessons workshops
• Equality and diversity brings: different views and opinions on the
project performance
Review

7. Assumptions
 WHAT assumptions do we make about
people?
 WHY do we come to the conclusions we
do?
 WHEN do we tend to make these
assumptions?
 WHERE can this cause us difficulties?
 HOW can we stop ourselves doing this?
 WHO does it and who does it affect?

8. EQUALITY &
DIVERSITY
Equality is not about treating all people in the same way. It’s
about recognising and respecting diversity enough to adapt
practice and procedure to suit all.

9. Thank
you