APM webinar sponsored by the South Wales and West of England Branch on 24 November 2022. Speakers: Elizabeth Harris and Sarah Mitchell The Met Office Project Delivery Capability has been on a significant transformational journey to ensure that delivery is undertaken by brilliant, empowered project delivery professionals. We shared with you how we started, where we are today and how we continue our journey. This webinar was held on 24 November 2022. Everyone will have a view on what the Met Office does with the main view being, ‘we tell you the weather’. What if we said, ‘that is just the tip of the iceberg!’ excuse the pun! This webinar provided a clear view of our strategy, the breadth of what we do and the landscape that we are operating in. We also took you through a high-level view of our transformational journey and went into more detail within the Project Delivery area. Over the last three years the Met Office started its organisational wide transformation. The Programme Directorate came into play to professionalise Project Delivery and aligning this to the Government Framework. We provide a consistent framework that allows delivery via the appropriate methodologies, whilst we are continuously striving to demonstrate best practice. For us to be able to do this, we need our brilliant people to be stood with us. We are committed to them to provide a clear career path, development, clarity on what they are delivering and more important than all of this is the empowerment and safe structures to be able to fail fast, learn from this and beautifully deliver. https://www.apm.org.uk/news/how-the-met-office-delivers-extraordinary-impact-and-benefit-through-beautiful-implementation-a-transformation-story-webinar/

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Met Office
Transformational change
Elizabeth Harris
Sarah Mitchell

2. Met Office strategy

3. The start of our Journey
February
MO Redesign
started
June
Exec Dir. announced
and shaping started
January
New Directorates in place
October
ELT announced
November
Structural changes agreed and
Programmes Exec in place
November – December
Structural changes shared
February
Transition of staff
March
All operational Directorates in place
April
Ongoing senior recruitment
in Programmes Directorate
June 22
FOC
implementation
started
September
FOC started in Programmes Directorate
2020 2021 2022

4. Great people wanting to do a great job
Inconsistency in delivery approaches, governance & no ‘one voice’
Imbalance between contractors and permanent staff
People development and career path unclear
Drivers for Change

5. Creating extraordinary impact and benefit from exceptional science,
engineering and technology through multi-disciplinary project and
programme teams.
Programmes Vision

6. Remember what we do…Breadth of Delivery is staggering
Customer Facing
Strategic
Underpinning
High Potential

7. Programmes SLT Structure
Associate Director
Science, Technology,
Engineering
Associate Director
Project Management
Office & Programme
Delivery
Head of Central Office
Supercomputing
Programme Director
Principal Fellow
Programmes
Director
Elizabeth Harris

8. Project Delivery Capability & PMO
Head of Project
Delivery Capability
PMO Manager
Customer Facing Sub
Portfolio Manager
AD Project Management
Office & Programme
Delivery
Strategic Sub Portfolio
Manager *
Underpinning and
High Potential Sub
Portfolio Manager
*only existing role before restructure

9. Beautifully implement and embed the project delivery capability throughout
the Met Office by establishing clear project practices, governance and
controls with a strong focus on the continuous development of our people.
Empower our people to be able to lead clear and consistent delivery by
utilising brilliant people engagement and collaboration.
Project Delivery Capability Vision and Strategy

10. Brilliant delivery via consistent and collaborative approaches
Right thing, right time, right quality
Integrity, honesty and doing the right thing
Continuous improvement and innovation
Be empowered and empower others
Project Delivery Capability Principles

11. Project Delivery Structure
Programmes Director
Associate Director Project Management Office
& Programme Delivery
Head of Project Delivery Capability
Team Leaders
aligned to Customer Facing
Sub Portfolio
aligned to Strategic
Sub Portfolio
aligned to Underpinning
Sub Portfolio

12. Our Journey continues...
Project Delivery Capability
Interim structure in place
Operating principles
shared
FOC started
Project Delivery Capability
Framework (PDCF) implemented
Project/Programme Complexity
Assessments implemented
FOC structure
announced
PDCF Competencies 'alive’ via
ELearning
Demand pipeline inflight
Continuous
improvement
across all areas
Recruitment against demand
2021 2022 2023 ...

13. And we keep evolving...
Career Paths
Enhancements to tools
Talent Management
Early Careers
Development stretch
Community of Practice
Aligned to BEIS
Best Practice PMO – CoE
Sub Portfolio Governance
Business change
our people by building our capability
to beautifully deliver

14. • Saving lives in Africa
• Lake Victoria
• Locusts
• Lobster populations
• Annually we publish papers of +450 (375 in scientific journals)
• Personal service (Met Office phone line for a personal forecast)
• And yes we do get asked to arrange the weather for personal events
Interesting Facts

15. Q&A Session