Management

Successful Program and Project Management

Even the "best" project management methodology can't guarantee success, although there are many that can work when correctly applied. In the real world, it is a combination of carefully chosen project management best-practices, competent execution and common sense that deliver projects on-time, on-budget with the specified functionality. It is the responsibility of the project manager to bring together these keys to success. Does your organization have the program and project management leadership to make current or planned efforts successful?

Program and Project Management: Key Questions

  • Are the right people working on the right tasks at the right time?
  • Are the projects that constitute major programs properly coordinated?
  • Are projects meeting schedule, budget and deliverable requirements?
  • Is the status of each project well documented, clearly communicated, and compared to an established baseline?
  • Is the next major milestone for each project clearly defined and will they be achieved on time?
  • Have the risks to project success been clearly defined and mitigation plans developed?
  • Does every team member know what to do today and how their work will contribute to project success?

Our senior consultants have more than 20 years experience managing and guiding technology projects ranging from application deployments and infrastructure upgrades to software development and qualification. We can offer assistance in all phases of program and project management from initiation through execution to closure. In general, we don't rely on a single methodology, but adapt to the environment and needs of the client.

Program and Project Management Services

Healthy Technology can provide these management services:

  • Initiation
    • Business case development
    • ROI and feasibility analysis
    • Project charter and preliminary scope development
  • Planning
    • Detailed scope definition
    • Requirement elicitation and documentation
    • Detailed work planning
    • Schedule and budget development
    • Qualification and test planning, milestone/phase-gate criteria development
    • Human resource identification and scheduling
    • Risk management and mitigation strategies
    • Contracting and purchasing
    • Communication and adoption/deployment planning
  • Execution
    • Direct and manage the team
    • Communicate to stakeholders
    • Manage project stages, change control, quality assurance and risks
    • Administer contracts
    • Deployment management
  • Project Closure
    • Final acceptance
    • Close contracts
    • Document lessons learned
    • Post-activation issue management