Industry experience
Financial services
New Policy Administration System
- Client
- Global Insurance Company
- Sector
- Financial services
Project description
The insurance company launched a programme to redesign its UK general insurance policy administration – both commercial and personal lines.
ItemPlus Consulting was asked to support the project management of the first project (Release 1) within the Policy Programme.
ItemPlus Consulting supported the business project manager and the overall project team for the initial phase of Release 1.
The ItemPlus support included:
- Helping the project team to transition from definition to project delivery.
- Assisting with project initiation including development of a detailed plan and implementation project controls.
- Helping the project team to adopt the chosen agile development approach (Extreme Programming).
- Enabling the project team to gain momentum quickly by identifying the key initial activities
- Assisting the business staff seconded to the project with prioritising the system features to be delivered.
- Helping the project manager to communicate project status effectively to senior executives
- Resolving key issues identified with the project manager
- Contributing to a formal project review following the first two incremental deliveries
