We provide Project Management services that enable organisations to deliver varied and complex IT change. We can help during all stages of project delivery from initialisation through to sign off and closure.
We can provide complete Project Management solution or work closely with your in house teams, helping to build project management competencies within the organisation whilst also ensuring that inflight projects are delivered successfully.
Whether it is just a case of kicking off a project in the right way, you have a project that is in trouble and needs turning around or whether you have a major project that "can't afford to fail" we can help.
Our Services - how we can help
PLANNING
Leading work to capture and formalise plans and descriptions of the entire scope of work. This includes running planning workshops, defining Product Breakdown Structures and creating MS Project plans.
PROJECT ARTIFACTS
From Scope & Project Initiation Documents through to Project Closure Reports we can help you by producing the project key documents that define and drive forward project delivery
DOCUMENT & PRODUCT REVIEWS
Ensuring that there are clear schedules and an agree approach to create Product Descriptions and organise the formal document walkthrough, review and acceptance
RISK IDENTIFICATION & MANAGEMENT
We can work with key stakeholders and run workshops to identify areas of risk, capturing and quantifying these and defining ways to mitigate risk
PLAN PROGRESS
Ensuring that project plans are regularly reviewed and updated to reflect the true progress being made and that work on the horizon is clearly understood by all of the teams involved
DEPENDENCIES
Identifying the gives and gets between different areas of work, ensuring that these are clearly documented, agreed and tracked.
STATUS REVIEW AND REPORTING
From simple progress reporting through the formal exception reporting and escalation, we can help compile, summarise and publish information on the status of key projects
DELIVERY & SIGN OFF
Clear plans, regular review and appropriate tracking of progress are all part of standard Project Management Methodology, ensuring that each project remains under control and that the intended aims of the the project can be achieved , ideally with a success outcome for everyone involved
Further Information & Links
Project Management Standards
Prince 2 - Project Management Methodology widely used by public and provide organisations in the UK
PMBoK - Project Management Processes & Knowledge Areas (Owner by the Project Management Institute)
ISO 21500 - Concepts and Processes that are considered to form Good Practice in project management (published by International Organisation for Standardisation)
See also: ICB - the IPMA Competence Baseline, owned by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).
Other Frameworks owned by the Cabinet Office and published by the Stationary Office (TSO):
MoP - Management of Programmes
MoR - Management of Risks
MoV - Management of Values
P3O - Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices
ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
Information on agile methods can also been found on the following websites:
Agile - Agile development principles and practices
DSDM Atern - DSDM Consortium (Rapid Application Development)
RUP - IBM Rational (Agile & Collaborative)