Project, Program & Portfolio Management Services

Deliver Value

Optimizing business value, is a combination of investing in the right opportunities and ensuring the proper delivery to achieve the business case. The organizations that are innovators and able to spend a greater share of IT investment on growth are focused on improving the practices and methods to make this happen.

Combined with the right skill sets, organizations are able to achieve greater investment success.

Our set of PPM services are focused on improving the agility of the IT organization while delivering measurable business value to the enterprise.

Project and Program Management

In order to be successful, an organization needs to have experience with large, complex programs. Best practice suggests adopting Agile methods, PMI informed practices and benefits based principles into Project and Program Management discipline. In many cases, “leadership”, process design and organizational change in addition to management is required to successfully implement a major initiative and deliver the expected results.

Our services include:

  • Leadership and jump start positioning to accelerate your project management success through the entire solution development life cycle using Waterfall and Agile approaches, as appropriate
  • Turnaround assessment and improvement plans for projects that are “off track” to deliver on time, on budget and / or to expected benefit
  • Verification and validation of an “in flight” project to independently assess the current project trajectory and projected outcome path
  • Project value and benefits tracking review and management for critical business investment initiatives.
  • Project management staffing and PMO as a Service

PMO / EPMO Setup and Design

The path for business improvement, revenue growth, digital business transformation and cloud migration continues its momentum.  This business demand is increasing the investment into new initiatives and the need to deliver results in a cost effective manner. A PMO can be established to manage specific initiatives or and Enterprise Program Management Office (EPMO) can help deliver these investment initiatives by establishing a model for investment governance and delivery with standard methodologies, documentation, and tools to track and manage program portfolios. The skills, organization, and resources required to implement the PMO are critical elements of the design.

Our practitioners have proven experience assisting organizations develop an effective and efficient PMO model tailored to our client’s needs. Our PMO design provides an action oriented deliverable that addresses: structure, skill set, process framework, sourcing, strategic vision and implementation roadmap. Key areas addressed are:

  • Investment and project selection
  • Benefits and financial management
  • Solution life cycle management integration
  • Schedule and task management
  • Risk and issue management
  • Reporting and Communication
  • Governance and tools

PPM Capability Assessment and Maturity Development

All organizations have some form of project and program management in place today. We’ve found that in many cases, even those that are delivering well need to improve select components of their PPM capability.

Our practitioners can help your PPM organization deliver more efficiently and effectively. Our service approach is as follows:

  • Identify areas that are most important for your organization to improve though an assessment of the PPM organization, skills, process maturity, implemented technology / tools and delivered results.
  • Determine gaps and develop recommendations / target vision to improve
  • Develop a deployment roadmap