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, vision
graphics cards
• 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 to be challenge
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 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.
The Act will ensure harmonisation of the law across all protected characteristics for simplification.
There are still some difference across some protected characteristics.