Program Management and Assurance.

In some instances, you may be delivering multiple business initiatives to your end-users. The logistics of maintaining an overall tactical delivery strategy, achieving expected objectives (results, timing and cost) across all current and planned efforts, becomes increasingly complex. Delay on a single critical path initiative can impact on the delivery of business benefits for all dependent initiatives and result in massive holding costs to the business. We can provide a Program Management service whereby an inventory of business initiatives is developed and an in-depth analysis is performed on the project portfolio in terms of:

• Project compliance with known schedule objectives (expected physical results, timing and cost) and business imperatives
• "Reasonableness" of proposed migration strategies for each project
• Critical dependencies across projects
• Strategies for common areas of work across projects (e.g. training, equipment installation, security and access)
• Individual project audits (schedule compliance, physical result, scope management, technical aspects, project organisation, etc.)

As a result of our analysis, we are able to build a deployment network model, which we use for ongoing tactical management of the delivery of the business initiatives. Expected outcomes can include:

• Tools available to manage decisions regarding the impact of holding costs across the portfolio of business initiatives
• Achievement of economies across common areas of work in multiple initiatives (preventing limitations over scarce resources)
• Improved quality of project work through enhanced sharing of skills and resources
• Improved understanding and planning of the physical capability of the organisation to deliver expected results of the portfolio of projects
• Confirmation and assurance of the schedule status of critical path projects and their subsequent real "downstream" impacts.

We provide experienced project and strategic business/I.T. specialists who have substantial project and relevant industry/process backgrounds to support the required level of analysis. We assist you with the physical implementation of our recommendations at the completion of our analysis and assurance effort.