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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 burndown chart and product burndown charts.
ARE YOU DEALING WITH A PROJECT CRISIS OR AN ISSUE?
The word “crisis” is very subjective - it depends on how you perceive your project’s health and on your customer’s tolerance for issues. Depending on how your organization defines project health criteria, an official “crisis” is not necessarily the same as a real one. Your project may be over budget or behind schedule, yet still classified as “yellow” according to organizational definitions or chosen health indicators. At the same time, some organizations become alarmed if a single task slips by a day and call it a severe issue.
While we fully adhere to the rules and criteria established by our clients, the true severity of each situation depends on the organization’s ability to resolve it - and on the impact of that resolution, whether in terms of cost, time, or scope.
ARE YOU SELECTING A VENDOR OR REVIEWING A SOW?
Working with external vendors can be challenging, especially when you’re dealing with a remote team of developers, testers, or other members who are completely virtual to you. Typically, you have a single point of contact, but little to no visibility into what each vendor team member is actually doing. This often raises concerns about the vendor’s ability to deliver the desired product on time. It may also lead to questions about whether the payment requested by the vendor is fair.
You want transparency, or at least some level of assurance. You want to ensure that the statement of work prepared by your vendor doesn’t contain any grey areas that could be interpreted in a way that leaves work incomplete or triggers additional (hidden) costs.
While we leave the legal aspects of vendor contracts to your lawyers and procurement department, we can certainly address the project management components, such as the completeness of the work scope, payment milestones, validation factors, acceptance criteria, and the fairness of the estimates and schedule.
ESTABLISHING OR REORGANIZING A PMO?
A Project Management Office (PMO) is a vital function for any organization that runs projects. It helps sustain organizational process assets, standardize and apply consistent project management processes and tools, support project managers, streamline parallel initiatives, and ensure that project interdependencies and external risks are communicated and addressed in a timely, coordinated manner.
Our specialists have a proven record of establishing and enhancing PMOs for organizations of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. We will help you build or strengthen yours and ensure it operates with maximum effectiveness.
These are just a few scenarios, but there are certainly many others. What’s your case? Tell us.