Project Management
'Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space, etc) over the course of a project (a set of activities of finite duration).'
There have been several attempts to develop project management standards, such as:
- A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)
- PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments)
- V-Modell (German project management method)
- HERMES method (The Swiss general project management method, selected for use in Luxembourg and international organisations)
- Organisational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)
- ISO 10006:2003, Quality management systems — Guidelines for quality management in projects
- Software Engineering Institute: Capability Maturity Model
- Total Cost Management Framework (AACE International's process for Portfolio, Program and Project Management) (ref:Cost Engineering)
Our senior consutltants are experienced Project Managers who can manage all of your IT projects. Their experience is across diverse industries, organisations and platforms and includes: application development projects, system integration , system deployment, system migration, network and infrustructure implementations.
Experience , the adoption of formal methodologies, and on-going education and support ensures that our consultants are able to provide effective project management services to organisations. Our emphasis is on meeting an organisation's needs in a cost effective manner within agreed timescale.
In order to suscessfully manage projects the following key elements are incorporated within the project lifecycle:
- Planning and Scoping
- Governance
- Organisation Change Management / Outcome/Benefit Realisation
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Issues Management
- Resource Management
- Quality Management
- Status Reporting
- Evaluation
- Closure