Technology Projects, Delivered.

We engaged with the Aspira Scheduling team in 2019 to assist us in developing complex design schedules from detailed technical statements of work. The design schedules need to cover all elements of the design involvement in our capital expenditure projects and the design has to be scheduled & sequenced to meet construction dates. The schedules are critical as they are used for resource information, fee estimates and Key Performance Indicator reporting. Projects can have numerous design inputs such as substations, underground cables, overhead lines, station control systems, civil and power system studies, so schedules can be quite complex and expert knowledge is needed in order to create a schedule. Aspira didn’t have this knowledge but they took it upon themselves to become familiar with our design processes and understand what was meant and what was involved in each task in our design processes. Using that knowledge, along with a library of design schedule templates developed internally, they have been able to deliver exceptional results back to us. They showed great interest and enthusiasm in gaining a full understating of the statements of work in order to produce technically accurate project specific schedules. The Aspira team also worked with our internal team and developed their own methodology and playbook which we now use as the training base for our schedulers. It has been a pleasure to work with their scheduling team.

"MTU Cork have engaged Aspira to form part of the panel of industry lecturers that deliver the Diploma in Project Management for the last 13 years. The Diploma in PM includes detailed insight into the use of Agile methods to deliver projects, showing how Scrum, Lean, Kanban and Agile hybrids apply to different industries. The course also provides insight to the PMBOK© – the Project Management Body of Knowledge, which is the basis for CAPM® (Certified Associate in Project Management) Certification and the key reference work for the PMP® (Project Management Professional) Certification administered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). The trainers we engaged were very thorough and professional in the delivery of this course and had a vast array of experience and well-rounded skills and knowledge placing emphasis on the quality of training. The Diploma receives very positive feedback from trainees on a consistent basis. In particular, Aspira's lecturers have been commended on their knowledge, breadth of experience and ability to convey it in a practical way in a classroom setting."

"I passed my CAPM exam in July 2020. The course is quiet broad and with work demands increasing, I hadn’t invested the amount of time into study that was needed. A few months before the exam, I did the virtual Exam Prep course with Aspira. For me, it was really made the difference in passing the exam. It condensed the areas of study into more manageable pieces and the trainer walked us through question banks covering the various topics as well as providing links to numerous others to complete offline. The trainer was very accessible and helpful and cut through the jargon and fog that is so often associated with these kind of areas. I would highly recommend both the course and Gillian as the course provider."

"We have the pleasure of partnering with Aspira for our Project Management learning in Three. We worked with them to create bespoke content for our learners balancing our companies needs and the PMBOK principles as well as SCRUM bootcamps and we found Aspira open and flexible in changing content to suit our needs as well as ensuring we covered all of the relevant content. Working with Aspira gave us confidence in the quality of the content and we are thrilled that all of our trainees successfully certified in Project Management. To support the world we currently live in, Aspira transitioned to virtual delivery of content without losing any of the engagement and content in doing so. The feedback from our learners is that the programme was engaging, challenging, worthwhile and they all benefitted from the programme with 95% of the learners saying it was extremely relevant to their role. The facilitators build great relationships with the learners which adding a depth of trust to the learning that supports the success of the programme and I would highly recommend working with Aspira."

"Aspira guided and supported us through our upgrade from Microsoft Project Server to Project Online, seamlessly completing our data migration and reintegrating our reporting with the new Project Online platform. They continue to support us in further customisation and report development by providing their expert knowledge. Their assistance has been invaluable in improving our portfolio management capabilities and providing up to date reporting to our stakeholders."

"We partnered with ASPIRA to get 20 of our senior strategic PMOs and program managers certified in MSP (Managing Successful Programs) and MoP (Management of Portfolios). Aspira have supported us in a very pleasant and professional way, to organize what we needed. Feedback of our participants and our Transformation Director was extremely positive, and with a big group of our senior people now being certified, we are looking forward to our journey to further improve program and portfolio management within our company."

“Our organisation has worked with Aspira for many years and it’s grown into a key partnership that continues to help us to deliver on our strategic business objectives. Personally, I’ve always found Aspira very easy to work with and our organisations have developed a strong collaborative working relationship.”

"HEAnet have been working with Aspira for a number of years to help improve our competency in project management through the delivery of customised training courses. Aspira have delivered courses at an introductory level as well as more targeted masterclasses for experienced project managers, and the feedback from attendees has been extremely positive. Aspira’s courses have helped raise the level of understanding and appreciation of the benefits of project management, and we expect to continue this for more staff in the future."

"We were looking to choose the right Customer Service System for our business which would allow us collate all of our customer data, received via all channels, in the one place. We engaged with Aspira to work on our discovery phase to define our problem statement, gap analysis and requirements to be reported back in a discovery document enabling us to review potential systems. From the initial demo of a potential system, all through the workshops and the final document delivered Aspira were very committed throughout and helped us get to our end goal of choosing the right system for our business."

As we’ve developed a global PMO capability, Aspira have been with us every step of the way. From an initial capability assessment, to the building of a global governance process and the provision of project management talent, Aspira have proven to be responsive and flexible partners in helping us build a world-class PMO organisation.

"Laya Healthcare has a strong strategic partnership with Aspira for over the past 10 years. They always provide engaging, knowledgeable and dependable I.T Professionals who consistently deliver on our business requirements."

"Aspira PM training services give an excellent practical insight into Project Management, comprehensively covering all PMBOK® Guide content. The personalised content provided tangible real world examples of how to gain value from use of PM tools and techniques in our own organisation. I would highly recommend Aspira Project Management Training services".

"The training was engaging, had the right level of interaction, was fun and even the more complex topics were made light and easy to understand. The participants feedback was very positive, they found this was one of the best trainings they ever had on Project Management."

"Our experience with Aspira Project Management training has not only been professional but excellently delivered. The course material covered was well organised, thorough and very practical in terms of applying to real life projects at Hovione."

"Aspira provided Stryker with highly valuable agile coaching services. Such services were not only based on best practice Agile theory, but brought a rich experience in implementing them practically too. Aspira helped us with the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ to bring Agile forward as a framework in our toolbox of practices; bringing positive excitement & engagement amongst the teams."