PROJECT MANGEMENT SOLUTIONS provides highly experienced program managers and project managers with the leadership capabilities to successfully guide, manage, and support high-visibility initiatives.
Flexible Enough to Meet Your Needs
Whether you require resources long term or short term, PM Solutions has the flexibility and talent to accommodate your resource needs. We specialize in:
- Managing strategic, mission-critical initiatives: Our clients utilize our consultants when they can’t afford program or project failure – even staffing companies turn to us!
- Recovering troubled projects: Our consultants are skilled at conducting rapid diagnosis of problems, instituting course corrections, and bringing projects back on track.
- Interim leadership: We can take charge of PMOs and similar organizations, run them for you for short- or long-term durations, and transition them back to you when you’re ready.
- Filling skill set gaps: If your people are proficient in some areas but not so much in others (e.g., risk management), we can provide the expertise you need. We can also help better manage key resource dependency issues.
- Supplementing resources when demand exceeds capacity: From Business Analysts to Project Controllers to Program Managers, we can help fill your staffing shortages.
Backed by PM Solutions’ Renowned Toolkit
All our experts are certified and bring our proprietary toolkit of vetted best practices, processes, templates, metrics and dashboards with them. So, you not only get the benefit of leaders with an average of 10 years of experience, you also get the backing of PM Solutions’ intellectual property and account oversight as constant assurance that you will receive consistent delivery. We adhere to a rigorous talent acquisition process, ensuring that our consultants bring a history of demonstrated performance managing a diverse range of projects and programs in all industries.
Organizations continue to be challenged with the consistent application of defined project management processes, resource planning, forecasting, and other business demands. A well-managed Project Management Office (PMO) can address these challenges in order to ensure successful project delivery. We work with clients when they need to deploy a new PMO, operate a PMO, or optimize and enhance an existing PMO to meet a set of evolving challenges, functions, and services.
Deploying a New PMO
The first step PM Solutions takes in deploying a PMO is to assess the current environment and develop a deployment roadmap incorporating your organization’s culture and operating practices. We will work with you to identify, prioritize, and establish a set of fundamental PMO functions and services. Deployment includes establishing governance standards, developing the PMO Charter and communications plan, identifying resource needs and performance measures, incorporating the right amount of repeatable delivery processes to fit your culture, and improving the competencies of your staff through training and mentoring. Emphasis is on the PMO providing an organizational entity focused on improving the management of your portfolio.
Operating a PMO
If project management is not a core competency, consider outsourcing the PMO. PM Solutions works in partnership with you to understand your goals and establish a structure that will achieve them. We will evaluate what you currently have in place and will subsidize as required. Or, if preferred, can utilize our customizable toolkit of proven techniques and methodologies. Constant communication, incorporating organizational change management, is crucial to the success and is a core tenet of our PMO operating model. Performance measures are collectively established upfront with you, and progress toward established goals is continually evaluated via quality and performance reviews.
Enhancing an Existing PMO
PMOs are consistently being challenged to provide additional value to their organizations. To meet business demands, projects must be completed faster and cheaper. The business wants more transparency, and they look to the PMO to optimize project resources. We can help your organization rise to the challenge.
To take your PMO to the next level, PM Solutions will first review and evaluate your existing PMO structure, and provide recommendations targeted to enhance it. We will develop a transformational roadmap, identifying areas of opportunity, and will collaboratively with you create an implementation plan for deployment. Common areas of focus for this type of transformation may include enhanced visibility, level of PM competency evaluation, portfolio resource optimization, demand management of both project and operations work, and facilitating organizational change. PMOs offering this level of service govern with a senior management focus on strategic issues and facilitate change across the organization.
SPM Solutions’ project recovery experts begin by reviewing of the project’s current state to identify the areas in jeopardy. Common areas of concern often include issues with scope, resource availability and/or capability, roles and responsibilities, and project monitoring and control. We will present our assessment to the senior leadership team recognizing the project’s accomplishments to date, while calling out the major issues that caused it to veer off track. A corrective plan is provided as part of this presentation.
Once the plan is accepted by the organization, our recovery experts will lead the turnaround initiative.
37% of organization are at risk of failures
Common Symptoms of Troubled Projects
- Critical issues in meeting milestones or completing deliverables
- High risk of non-delivering anticipated benefits
- Resources are not fully allocated to the project
- The project is consistently behind its planned schedule
- They are critical and/or significantly growing technical issues with the project
Top 5 Actions Taken to Recover Projects
- Improving communication, stakeholder management
- Redefining the project—reducing the scope, re-justifying the project fi nancially
- Adding and/or removing resources
- Resolving problematic technical issues
- Replacing the project manager or bringing in a consultant to manage recovery.
We have capable and energic team to fill in your shoes to increase project efficiency, value and reduce your risk percentage. We provide you the best solutions.