Project Masters will support your program / project management needs in four distinct ways:
- Program/Project Managers Services
- Organizational Change Management
- Portfolio Management Services
- Schedule Management Services
Program/Project Managers Services
Project Masters supports you by:
Providing experienced, certified Project Managers, Program Managers, Project Schedulers and Project Coordinators to implement project plans, mentor your staff, and improve your project management disciplines.
Managing the Project from Initiation phase through Closeout
Tailoring to your organizations needs as determined by the complexity, critical nature and length of the project
Concentrating on assembling the various pieces of the Project Plan
Providing Quality Project Management, Quality Project Processes, Quality Project Standards…
Organizational Change Management
Tools - Project Management “Maturation Assessments”
Through an in-depth assessment you’ll learn how your current skills, systems and corporate structure support or hinder the development of an improved management system. During this assessment, all stakeholders will be interviewed from top management, down to the general worker. In addition, an analysis of documents used to support your business direction, organization and communication will be provided. Additionally, observation or participation in typical work, planning or decision-making is conducted to gain greater insight into your organization.
Project Masters’ Organizational Change Management Methodology
Organizational Change Management will be applied through tried and true methods, with the use of proactive customer communication skills. Project masters’ will adapt processes and procedures to meet your exacting requirements. The above figure represents Project Masters’ “Organizational Change Management Method”. F igure below represents Project Masters’ “change control method”. These methods will be tailored to meet your specific needs.
Project Masters' Change Control Methodology
Progress/Status Reporting
Project masters will ensure an accurate picture of the work in progress. typical status reporting includes;
- Activity Status Reports
- Recommendations
- Time and costs to complete remaining activities
- Risk assessments and mitigation
Interfacing With and/or Managing Its Team during Contract Performance
Project Masters will use PMI standards, and project management best practices. Project Masters uses several methods to manage risk, staff and subcontractors, to achieve compliance with project and customer standards.
Typical Measures used
- Detailed statements of work for each subcontractor
- Customer performance reviews
- Project team performance reviews
- Project guidelines, which govern communications and execution
- Milestone management
Change Management:
Project Masters will develop an “integrated change control system”. Most problems are related to the wrong people asking for the wrong change. We will ensure only those people authorized to request a change will be allowed to submit those changes. Project Masters will develop a matrix to clearly show who is able to authorize a change, based on agreed upon paramaters.
Regarding scope verification and formalized acceptance of a project, Project Masters believes no project is complete until the customer is satisfied. By managing an integrated project plan, we can clearly see what objectives have been met and what objectives still need to be completed. Additionally, we will get interim sign-offs on deliverables in order to make the formal acceptance of the project’s deliverables less traumatic.
Portfolio Management Services
A portfolio is a collection of projects or programs grouped together to facilitate management and attainment of strategic business objectives. They’re not necessarily related to one another but are often grouped together based on general types of projects, specific lines of business, and performance goals.
Project Masters helps:
- Set up your portfolio by including projects that meet the portfolio’s goals quickly excluding those that don’t
- Balance investments to efficiently use resources
- Manage resources
- Manage your project interdependencies
Project Masters will help you keep your portfolio on budget and on schedule.
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Keys to successful portfolio management
- Gather the initial portfolio information
- Define goals, resources and assets for portfolio
- Link projects; goals, resources and assets
- Define the organization’s strategic resources
- Prioritize projects according to your defined acceptance criteria
- Examine portfolio balance
- Develop recommendations for improving portfolio return on Investment (ROI)
- Communicate results to organizational executives
Schedule Management Services
We will help you manage your Project Life Cycle, by providing you with a Master Project Scheduler.
Shown below is the Project Schedule Life Cycle. The five major processes are:
- Initiating Process
- Planning Process
- Executing Process
- Closeout Process
- Controlling Process
The controlling process spans the other processes. The Project Manager is responsible to make sure that all of the activities of the other processes are completed according to budget, schedule and customer requirements.
