The Challenge
Services organizations are far more effective when delivery executives and managers have timely and reliable information about the health of their project portfolios. Many professional services organizations lack the necessary visibility and structure to effectively govern their project portfolios and ensure that standard project management practices are being followed.
Addressing these challenges requires you to answer the following questions:
- Do we have a standardized approach to project management that is widely adopted and uniformly applied?
- Do project managers and others have the skills and training required to perform their jobs efficiently and effectively?
- Do we have appropriate processes/tools in place to provide a view of the entire project portfolio on demand?
- Have we defined and communicated the right controls and metrics by which all projects should be managed?
If you answered ‘no’ to one or more of the questions above, then you have an opportunity to improve your project management execution. Poor project execution is a leading driver of services margin erosion and poor customer satisfaction. RTM Consulting can help you solve for these challenges.
Our Approach
RTM Consulting provides a number of ways to assist you in improving the way you manage and monitor your project portfolio.
Project & Portfolio Management Assessment
RTM Consulting will review the end-to-end management of your projects, from inception to close, both at the individual project execution level and from the portfolio governance perspective, to identify opportunities for improvement in process and data standardization, automation, and organizational behavior.
Project & Portfolio Management Implementation
Based on the needs identified in the assessment phase, RTM Consulting will lead or assist you in implementing best practices to drive more consistency and transparency throughout your project management execution. Common outcomes from this Build Phase are:
- Project management methodology standardization, grounded in the principles of PMBOK, across the entire organization.
- Establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO) that defines the people, process, and technology necessary to effectively govern the entire delivery portfolio.
PMO QuickStart
The effort to effectively and adequately redefine processes, implement automation, and change the behavior of the team for managing projects and portfolios takes time. Services leaders, however, often need results in weeks, not months. To address this, RTM Consulting has developed PMO QuickStart that combines the assessment phase activities with targeted implementation phase outcomes to accelerate your speed-to-value.
Project Management Training
Project Managers continually seek to enhance their project management skills and drive successful delivery. To address this need – and give PMPs continuing education credits – RTM Consulting offers a highly-regarded project management curriculum focused on:
- Project Manager Accountability – Level setting and helping PM’s to better understand their responsibilities, management and customer expectations, and their interactions with Regional and Global PMO’s, all to help standardize expectations and practices globally.
- Project Manager Responsibility, Authority, and Assessment – Designed to help PS managers better understand their PM’s responsibilities and to facilitate granting PM’s a greater level of authority over all aspects of a project. We will also help you to ensure that your PS organization has the tools needed to properly measure and audit the project team’s progress.
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What Our Clients Are Saying
Adobe Case Study
Adobe Partners with RTM Consulting to create a Project Management Office (PMO) with standardized tools, governance processes and quality gates. Read the case study. |
