Initiatives in a fast-paced environment call for superior professionals and methodologies that bring organization and appropriate processes to a company's most important projects.  Further, by engaging professionals only as your projects arise, your company accomplishes the work without the attendant overhead.  Project Strategies is founded on the strong belief that businesses thrive by completing projects purposefully and conscientiously with a system of rigorous planning, accountability and communications. Our commitment to successful project delivery starts before your call to us.

• Management and client personnel work together with Project Strategies’ project managers to identify your unique business requirements for all projects and determine a common project life cycle.  Each project will have a primary and a back-up project manager assigned from Project Strategies for 24 x 7 x 365 coverage.

• Identify project participants' duties, deliverables and the cadence of communication for every phase of the project life cycle.  Determine required content and format for each deliverable, with flexible standards to match varying levels of project complexity.

• Develop an enterprise-wide reporting system with customized templates for regular project communication and status reports for executive stakeholders.

• Project Strategies’ principals can supply both coaching and training to your project personnel as needed. You will have use of our virtual Projects Office to maintain and improve your project management processes over time.  

Why Project Management?

Most companies are full of projects - large, small, full-time and part-time. The variety of project types adds to the confusion and difficulty in managing them. Further, it makes overseeing multiple projects even more difficult because each project leader is reporting different information.

Project Strategies' consultants employ practical, time-tested methods to lead firms through the series of decisions required to establish a successful project management process. We bring a structured approach to ensure that your new management standards will be effective on all of your projects.

With Formalized Project Management:

Executives have consistent information about projects, making it easier to manage multiple projects.
Standard project initiation documents mean every project will be clear about its goals, constraints and priority.
With standard project management deliverables, project managers won't waste time struggling to write project charters, status reports or project plans because they'll know the format and content of each one.

Typical Project Management Functions:

• Oversees and develops uniquely complex work statements, scope/priority definition and the creation of budgets and schedules for several large complex global programs. Develops documents in accordance with appropriate standards and customer requirements and needs. Identifies global implications and determines appropriate response to those implications.
• Defines overall high-level program plans and their interdependencies, manages communications between projects, and sets realistic objectives for project managers within a program. Documents program progress including implementation, time lines, issues, risks, and successes to maintain program course. Determines changes and/or corrections and implements as appropriate or approved.
• Maintains grade and quality of program deliverables within defined and agreed upon program requirements. Oversees adjustments and changes necessary. Communicates with client senior management to manage expectations, maintain smooth operations, and build client relationships. Communicates program goals and processes to the program team to ensure program continuity.
• Leads major proposal efforts and creates strategies to establish business in new markets or in current accounts. Functions as a subject matter expert and provides project management methodology consulting to business unit personnel. Participates in contract negotiations with clients, sub-contractors, and vendors.
• Balances program resources (people, budget, material, time) to optimize program objectives for several large, complex, global projects. Monitors and reports budgetary concerns to achieve financial and performance objectives for several large, complex, global programs. Manages legal, contractual, and customer processes to ensure compliance with agreed upon requirements. Understands and determines course of action to comply with global or country specific regulations.
• Oversees complex projects with high level risk, identifies risks. Identifies and resolves issues impacting the productivity of several large, complex, global programs. Gathers appropriate information, assesses results and determines and recommends risk mitigation solutions and implements as appropriate.
• Gathers feedback from client on program results; analyzes feedback and incorporates same into future programs. Identifies and determines global implications of program parameters and redefines, redesigns or revises as appropriate.
• Determines, obtains and provides program metrics/status to stakeholders to communicate project progress. Leverages corporate synergies to improve customer information technology performance.
• Selects and hires employees. Trains and evaluates employees to enhance their performance, development, and work product. Addresses performance issues and makes recommendations for personnel actions. Motivates and rewards employees including providing salary increases, bonuses and promotions within allocated budgets and company guidelines.
• Prepares and recommends operating and personnel budgets for approval. Monitors spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary. Balances program resources (people, budget, material, time) to optimize program objectives for several large, complex, global projects.

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