According to a recent Gartner research report, the companies responding indicate that in addition to projects not being delivered within budget or schedule, more than 70% of the systems integration projects fail to meet their stated objectives. Some of the characteristics of these failed projects include not having process and tools in key areas, including an integrated approach to risk mitigation, a well defined set of roles and responsibilities, a clear set of goals, expectations and requirements, strong project management skills, measurable performance metrics, attention to project tracking and reporting, identification of dependencies, clear foundational agreements among stakeholders, a well-defined communication plan, and making use of a broad array of tools, processes and competencies. Collabera's Project Management services focus on enabling project success by helping to introduce improvements with people, process, and technology.
Collabera's Project Management solutions include specific areas that focus on improving the delivery of project results, extending the capability of project management professionals, providing project oversight for managing delivery and project transparency and, as necessary, augmenting corporate staff with Collabera project management professionals.
Failure Point Analysis - When projects are failing, business and IT leaders need a clear and unbiased strategy for finding causes and solutions. Collabera's Project Failure Point Analysis helps remove the mystique surrounding the failures, and introduces an Assess-Analyze-Roadmap approach. Using a workshop model, this approach incorporates a diagnostic framework for root-cause identification and analysis, and action plan for quickly implementing get-well recommendations. The Failure Point Analysis results in identifying key areas for improvement, and often includes recommending changes in areas such as where to start or re-start, sequencing, and the number of phases, interdependencies, and strategies versus tactics.
Maturity Assessment - The project management maturity model, has a clearly defined value proposition that bases its foundation on the fact that more mature organizations, realize greater business benefit from their projects through increased business value and decreased project risk. The Collabera Maturity Assessment approach, incorporates a diagnostic framework on which to assess program management capability, and chart a course for program management process improvement. An actionable project management capability maturity improvement roadmap is established, on which an organization can improve its project management capability through specific actions that include - Â identifying Key Process Areas for improving competency, preparing a process improvement plan, initiating a formal program for improving project management capability, and monitoring improvement efforts including a re-baseline of capability, at periodic intervals.
Project Oversight - Successful projects, require more than a good project plan and experienced development staff. The establishment of a structured and disciplined project management control approach is necessary, in order to guide the project process and provide project transparency. Oversight needs to be established by professional project managers that communicate project issues, identify project progress, monitor compliance to development standards and SDLC, understand business regulatory issues, and interact with all project stakeholders. These activities are quite often integrated within a PMO, but can also be introduced, independently, for one or more projects, especially those that have a designated level of complexity or business criticality.
Project Management Augmentation - As an organization that participates as a member of the Board of Directors for the Project Management Institute (PMI) PMO Specific Interest Group, Collabera is well positioned to augment your project management staff with best practices and experienced professionals. The services and duration of a project management augmentation engagement, can be designed and customized for a wide range of business and IT scenarios ,to fit your specific needs.
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