Martin Samphire

Governance is the key factor for project success

Martin SamphireMartin is the owner and Managing Director of 3pmxl Ltd, a consultancy that specialises in helping organisations to transform their business using structured PPPM approaches.

He has over 30 years management consulting, change, project,  programme and portfolio implementation experience in both the private and public sectors, in the UK and internationally.

He has directed and contributed to a number of complex business change programmes to fundamentally reshape and improve business performance, often enabled by technology.  He has also led a number of assignments to improve an organisation’s capability to better manage portfolios, projects and programmes.

Martin is a mechanical engineer by training and an experienced project and programme manager having started his career in major capital project contracting in the petrochemical sector with Foster Wheeler.

He moved into consulting with The Nichols Group and thence to Impact Plus and Hitachi Consulting before starting 3pmxl, helping organisations to implement change in a more structured project and programme oriented way.

Martin is Chairman of the APM SIG on Governance.  This group has developed guidelines for Governance of Project Management, including ‘Directing Change’, ‘Governance of Multi-owned Projects,’  ‘Sponsoring Change’ and currently developing a guide for ‘Agile Governance’.  He has also previously been a committee member for the APM SIG on Portfolio Management.

 

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