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  How complex is your project? Find out where your challenges are
  
  Take two minutes to complete our project complexity tool and find out where your danger areas are
  
  
  
  
  
  These sample results highlight where biggest challenges are likely to be:
  
  
  Intrisic Complexity

  Enviromental Complexity
  
  
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  Project Size
  The project size and timescales determine logistical complexity.

  Value of project	< 50k	50k - 249k	250k - 499k	500k - 1.5m	> 1.5m
  No. of people effected by project	< 20	20 to 100	101 to 250	251 to 500	> 501
  Project Deadline	Yesterday				Faraway
  Operations Sub Type(s) Office environments can be easier to operate in than field environments where people are spread out.
  Field	Yes
  Back Office	Yes
  Front Office	Yes
  Stakeholders The number and type of stakeholders add complexity to requirements and project resource availability
  No. of stakeholders	1	2 - 4	5 - 7	8 - 10	> 10
  No of Suppliers (discreet organistions) (exc. Your own)	0	1	2	3	> 3
  No of Clients (discreet organisations) (exc. Your own)	0	1	2	3	> 3
  Existing Project Management Office Capability A mature PMO will greatly assist any change initiative.
  PMO Type	Trust Wide				Single Function
  PMO Maturity	Best Practice				Immature
  Level of PMO sponsorship	CEO				Not Applicable
  Project/ Programme Type The number and type of elements contained within the project/ programme can greatly increase project complexity.
  IT-Customerised Application Development	Yes
  IT-Off the shelf application	Yes
  IT-Infastructure	Yes
  Finance. Cost modeling / Commercial Modelling	Yes
  Process Re-Design	Yes
  Call Centre	Yes
  Franchise	Yes
  Merger/Acqusition/Outsourcing	Yes
  Restructure	Yes
  Cost Reduction	Yes
  Compliance	Yes

  
  
  
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  Shape & Diversity The complexity of the change is relative to the size of the change relative to the organisations current state.
  Incremental/ Big bang change		Increment					Big Bang
  Extent of change		Evolution					Revolution
  Shape of impacted teams		Single skill sets					Highly Mixed Cultures
  Readiness If people want change then it will happen.
  Staff experience of change		Used to change					Resist Change
  Staff attitude to change		Want the change					Don't want the change
  Staff Awareness		Driving the need for change					Unaware of the need to change
  Leadership People follow effective leaders and managers.
  Visible effective management and leadership		Effective, Visible Leadership					Ineffective, invisible leadership
  Staff Rewards		Regular					Little/None
  Established communications		Highly Particpative					Little/None
  Organisational History If people have a positive experience of change then they will welcome more change.
  Recent Changes to initiatives were deemed a success by those impacted		Highly effective					Ineffective
  The organisation is one organised system		Minimum restructures					Many Mergers
  The organisations comprises of new and not so new aquisitions		No recent restructures					Restructures in previous few years
  Capacity and Capability The more time and skills that people have to support change the less complex your project will be.
  Staff are able to change/ Support Change		Staff have training on change					Staff are expected to 'just do it'
  There is capacity for change		Staff happy to change					Staff are 'maxed' out
  Management		One Team					Them and Us