Helen Winter

An Management Consultant responsible for structuring programmes, success criteria, mobilisation, management of scope, budget, timely delivery, benefits realisation and stakeholder satisfaction. Helen has led on large transformation programmes to execute delivery along with strategic business outcomes. Helen is also a global business author with publisher Kogan Page where her first book “The Business Analysis Handbook” was a finalist for 2 major industry awards. One was for contribution to project management literature with PMI and the other was the Specialist book category for the business books awards. She is an active member of the APM programme management group. She is currently involved in a focus group sharing examples of good programme management practice and is an established speaker for project management forums. In her free time, she loves sharing her knowledge on her blog BusinessBullet.co.uk which is followed by over 5000 visitors a month.

Author Archives: Helen Winter

Announcing Handling Transformation with a Target Operating Model – 1st CHAPTER FREE

By | 11/09/2022
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Handling Transformation with a Target Operating Model is launched and open for enrolment! You can enrol by going to the following link – https://businessbullet.thinkific.com/courses/target-operating-model-launch The first chapter is now completely FREE. Here’s what you’re going to get: 7 modules consisting of workbooks, videos, interviews with other industry experts, forum discussions, templates, case study examples and a live session… Read More »

Should we have a more ambitious plan in place to justify our target operating model a few years in the future?

By | 25/04/2022
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There has been so much uncertainty for many businesses over the last few years with significant changes to external factors.  The slide below is from a presentation I did at the APM SIG conference on Target Operating Models. This article looks at external factors and why companies will need to plan their target operating model to ensure they… Read More »

Considerations for companies wanting to move to agile and pitfalls to avoid?

By | 26/06/2021
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See the embedded video for my recent chat with Dr Penny Pullan about companies wanting to move more to agile and what pitfalls to avoid.  I’ve been involved on several occasions with companies that have done this with varying levels of success.  This has also been a popular topic at conferences with other presenters sharing their experiences.  The… Read More »

Recent speaking engagements, events, articles and media sponsorship

By | 06/06/2021
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Business Bullet is passionate about sharing knowledge, promoting business change professions and helping companies to make projects successful.  Here is a round up of some of the recent speaking engagements, articles and media sponsorship. Speaking engagements Best practice guidelines and templates for business cases webinar with Helen Winter PMI UK Digital Events Team hosted this webinar which discussed… Read More »

Webinar – Real IT Bites Early Career Professionals Series – Success Stories

By | 01/05/2021
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This is a webinar hosted by the British Computing Society (BCS) – Birmingham Branch.  Jag Sohal invited Helen Winter as a guest speaker to talk about her early career.  The objective was to help provide guidance to early career professionals looking to start or progress a career in IT by providing personal success stories.  Below shows the webinar… Read More »

Best practice guidelines and templates for business cases

By | 07/03/2021
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This is a webinar that I did for the Project Management Institute (PMI) in February 2021.  Original slides can be found on this link: https://www.pmi.org.uk/events/webinar-library-current/1491-february-2021-best-practice-guidelines-and-templates-for-business-cases-by-helen-winter Challenges to business cases are how to get the right level of detail so that senior management will be able to understand the main elements of the business case with their limited time… Read More »