In order to have a successful Programme strategy and set up we: Initiated a meeting with the client and his PMO team (programme management) in Salford, Manchester; we introduced ourselves and presented our company; we established contacts within the team; we collected documents from previous projects, requirements/asks from stakeholders and prepared a workshop which led to identify different risks involved with programmes. We carried out workshops for all the different teams involved (PMO) to communicate each other’s expectations;  in order to do so we used Mason and Marlowe facilitated workshop tools. These workshops helped us establish relationships between all the key stakeholders of our client’s project(s). Participants got to know each other through the different workshop exercises and they established clear expectations regarding their roles and responsibilities in the project. We carried out a paperless office training for all our client’s people; we provided them with tablets to use during workshops in order to work more efficiently on visualising the different requirements, risks etc… We helped our client to establish relationships with all his stakeholders (teams outside of PMO) such as main contractors (leading subcontractors), finance/accounting department; we also organised several meetings between the PMO team and different key people outside of the company in order for them to get to know each other and help establish a better understanding in terms of the language used when talking about projects, timelines and budgets. We built an Excel spreadsheet with the different projects, timeframes and deadlines in order to have one programme plan for all of our client’s programmes. We worked on creating a PowerPoint presentation to communicate the objectives of establishing a programme management office (PMO). It helped us demonstrate to our client how it can be beneficial in terms of cost-saving when using one organisation’s people instead of several if they are managing multiple related projects at once. We established training plans for prime contract employees so that they would know their responsibilities, what timelines they should respect when delivering specific requirements etc…