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WHAT IS YOUR CASE?
ARE YOU INITIATING A NEW PROJECT?
If you are in the process of project initiation, it is very important to get things right from the very beginning. Do you have the right people at the table? Does your business case have enough details? How about your project’s ROI? Do you have sufficient information to come up with your preliminary budget and your high-level scope? Do you know your risks and opportunities? Does your organization have enough resources? Can you kick off your project? Do you need assistance with project planning and baseline creation?
Are you following the traditional PMI methodology? Our specialists can help you identify project stakeholders, enhance your business case, facilitate sessions to state the project requirements and create your project charter. After that, we can lead your project through the acquisition of a project team and help you build time, scope and cost baselines. In addition, we will help you build the project WBS, identify project dependencies and risks, sequence your activities, plan communications and create the detailed project management plan.
Are you practicing Agile? In that case, we will help you create your product roadmap, plan your first release, determine the minimal viable product for your first release, and facilitate backlog grooming and iteration planning meetings. We will also help you initiate your risk burn down chart and product burn down charts.
ARE YOU DEALING WITH A PROJECT CRISIS OR AN ISSUE?
The word “crisis” is very subjective, and it depends on how you feel about your project’s health and on your customer’s tolerance towards issues. Depending how your organization defines your project health criteria, the official crisis is not necessarily the same as a real crisis. Your project may be well over budget or behind schedule, yet its status would still be “yellow” according to the definition imposed by the organization, or because of the chosen project health criteria. At the same time, some organizations feel alarmed if a single task slips by a day and call it a sever issue.
While we completely adhere to the rules and criteria imposed by the client organization, the severity of each situation is defined by the organization’s ability to fix it as well as the impact of such fix, whether it is cost, time or scope related.
So, let us assume that your organization is dealing with a situation that may not in fact be a crisis, but is severe enough for you to reach out for some project management aid.
Our specialists help you conduct the root cause analysis of your issue, assess the severity and explain the assessment factors. We learn about your limitations and priorities and recommend the course of action that will take into consideration is aligned against those limitations and priorities.
ARE YOU SELECTING A VENDOR OR REVIEWING A SOW?
Working with external vendors may be challenging, especially if you are dealing with a remote team of developers, testers or other team members that are completely virtual to you. Typically, you have a focal point, but you have no insight whatsoever into what each vendor team member does. This often raises concerns about vendor's ability to deliver the desired product on time. It also raises questions if the payment requested by a vendor to do the job is fair.
You would like to have transparency or at least some guarantees. You would like to make sure that the statement of work that your vendor prepares does not have any grey areas that can be interpreted in such a way that the vendor's work will not be done in full or will require additional (hidden) payment.
While we leave the legal aspects of your vendor contracts to your lawyers and procurement department, we can certainly address the project management part of your those contracts, such as completeness of the work scope, payment milestones, validation factors and acceptance criteria, fairness of estimation and work schedule.
ESTABLISHING OR REORGANIZING A PMO?
A project management office is a very important department for each organization that does projects. It helps to sustain the organizational process assets, to select and utilize consistent project management processes and tools, to provide assistance to project managers, to streamline parallel projects within the organization and to ensure that project inter-dependencies and external risks are communicated in a timely manner and collectively addressed.
Our specialists possess successful records of building and enhancing the work of project management offices of multiple corporations, both small companies and large enterprises. We will help you build yours and make sure that it becomes effective.
THESE WERE JUST A FEW SCENARIOS. BUT THERE ARE CERTAINLY MANY OTHERS. SO WHAT IS YOUR CASE? TELL US.