Client – Marshall Aerospace, Cambridge

Brief – Marshall Aerospace had identified an exciting business opportunity to develop and install safety related equipment into commercial airliners.  Short-term support from an interim manager was required to navigate the bid through the local business processes.

Contribution – Vee Solutions’ contribution was to provide a consistent focus on delivering the proposal on time and to support the proposal team.  Over the two month duration of the assignment we:

• Re-wrote board paper describing business case for major investment;
• Assessed the business case viability based upon prior experience of similar business cases;
• Coached the allocated project manager;
• Defined the timeline for delivering the proposal to the end customer;
• Generated an integrated schedule for partially overlapping, sequential development programmes for different platform variants;
• Generated multiple resource profiles for different programme variants based upon various “what if” scenarios;
• Led presentation of the proposal through the risk reviews and internal gate reviews mandated by the Marshall Aerospace lifecycle management process.
• Led generation of the bid pack for Board approval prior to submission of the priced proposal to the end user customer.;
• Generated feedback to MA Board on the overall business case and the programme schedule;
• Reviewed the risk quantified risk;

A substantial contribution was to coach several key members of the project management and engineering management teams.

Outcome – The proposal was presented through the mandated risk reviews and internal gate reviews on time and the supporting bid pack was generated and delivered. The bid pack was a substantial endeavour that ran to some 80 pages of information and supporting charts, schedules and supporting data.