ACOURSERV

Project & Program Management services

  • Project Management – There are a variety of ways that we can add to your organizations Program/Project management’s capabilities. We can act as a short term or long-term resource to manage programs. We can help organizations improve project deliverables value by creating custom project management processes, procedures and training. This would allow the organization the ability to consistently deliver projects on time and on budget. Our philosophy is that a Project Manager needs to play an active role in managing the project, too many project managers fall into the trap of only reporting on project performance becoming a Project Reporter rather than a Project Manager.
    • Project Management Contracting – Over 20 years’ experience of successfully managing Projects and Programs ranging from small R&D (IRAD) efforts to large portfolio of projects. Experience managing T&M, CPFF, CPAF and FFP contracts in Waterfall and Agile project lifecycle management environments.
    • Project Management Development – Creation of PMO and Project Management policies, procedures, PM Metrics and training documents.  Have developed PM process from scratch to fully compliant CMMI Level 3
  • Examples of Project Management Processes
    • Initiation
      • Project initiating forms – Evaluates project costs, risk and liabilities to apply appropriate management and oversite
      • Project Charters – Project overview
    • Planning
      • Project Management Plans – Defines key characteristics and interfaces of a project
      • Work Breakdown System (WBS) development
      • Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) using Microsoft Project
      • Cost Estimates – Top Down, Bottom Up, Analogous and Parametric techniques. Methodology also integrates into organizational resource management plan to allow organizations to use effort estimations to plan for correct type and amount of resources to support project efforts.
      • Risk Management – Qualitative and Quantitative methodologies – Meaningful risk analysis is used to predict, track and take actions to mitigate project risks. If managed correctly plan will decrease project surprises and inform all stakeholders of possible risks. (supports MIL-STD 882E)
      • Quality Management Plan – Defines how quality will be applied to the project and defines quality metrics that will be measured to help analyze project costs and the effects of organizational process improvements
    • Execution
      • Uses the Integrated Master Schedule to create mini-plans (typically every 2 weeks) to clearly communicate the goals and project plan to the project team. Also acts as a tool for the project team to take accurate performance on task completion.
    • Monitoring and Control
      • Earned Value Management (EVM) – Techniques utilized to measure project cost, schedule and project performance
      • Simplified Earned Value – When appropriate, project cost is measured against planned spend curve and entire project performance is estimated
      • Project Change Management – Process for controlling project scope by defining what is in and out of scope and defining processes and approvals to change scope which includes project Management Reserve change log.
      • Project Management Review (PMR) – Key Performance Indices (KPI) metrics such as Cost Performance Indices (CPI), Schedule Performance Indices (SPI), Estimate At Completion (EAC), Estimated Profit, Critical Path, Project Risk Register improvement plans and project accomplishments & issues are reviewed at planned intervals to clearly communicate the status of the project to the project team and organizational stakeholders 
    • Closing
      • Develop closure plan using project closeout checklist
      • Gain formal acceptance of the project work products
      • Complete contract closure, including any customer related paperwork for project closeout
      • Prepare a report on final performance
      • Conduct a Post Project Review and a final Lessons Learned meeting and document the results in a report or presentation format. The results are for use in process improvement efforts and to provide guidance to other projects
      • Release resources to other projects, including any facilities which have been dedicated to the project