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Project and Portfolio Management
The right combination of experience,
leadership, methods and tools is the cornerstone of a successful program
or project. Achieving this success is especially challenging in large
organizations where complex IT programs and projects are moving at
significant speed with many changing priorities and diversions. SyApps
LLC has a team of experienced consultants who have experience in this
type of environment for years; we understand these challenges and have
built a service offering to address them. We do this by applying deep
experience, proven leadership, successful methods and valuable tools.
All of these components are brought together within our Program and
Project Management offering.
Project Management Adoption
Effective project management practices are as critical to the success of
the overall PMO as they are to the individual projects because the PMO
is only as effective as the projects that feed it. SyApps Consultants
work with our clients to develop a standard set of project-level
processes, tools and templates that are designed to integrate with the
PMO across the following management functions
• Status/Communications Management
• Schedule Management
• Issue Management
• Scope Management
• Budget Management
• Resource Management
• Risk Management
• Quality Management
• Change Management
• Knowledge Management
Earned Value Management (EVM) Implementation
Earned Value Management (EVM) is commonly used in today’s world to
measure project progress in an objective manner. SyApps through its
Project management services can combine measurement of technical
performance (i.e., accomplishment of planned work), schedule performance
(i.e., behind/ahead of schedule), and cost performance (i.e., under/over
budget) within a single integrated methodology.
When properly applied, EVM provides an early warning of performance
problems. Additionally, EVM promises to improve the definition of
project scope, prevent scope creep, communicate objective progress to
stakeholders, and keep the project team focused on achieving progress.
Program Management Services through PMO Office
As companies take on increasingly complex initiatives that require
coordination, integration and synchronization across many related
projects, they often look to establish a Program Management Office (PMO)
to manage the transition. SyApps's experienced
management consultants work closely with clients to design, deploy and
operate a highly effective PMO that will achieve the following
objectives.
Standardization: Driving consistency in processes and solutions
across the entire enterprise from a project
management perspective
Effectiveness: Ensuring that IT and other project-based solutions
are delivered in the most timely and cost-
effective manner possible, with appropriate quality control measures
Efficiency: Eliminating redundancies and delays, fixing broken
"hand-off" points and streamlining process bottlenecks
Visibility and Communications: Providing near real-time
visibility into individual projects, along with
appropriate roll-up and exception reporting that varies by level and
department
Coordination: Maintaining awareness of all key interdependencies
between projects and operating units; providing resource leveling (i.e.,
skills, knowledge, availability) across projects . |
