Provide meaningful answers to the question, "How's the project doing?" by capturing and monitoring the metrics that matter. Building on the predictive project plans our professional project managers prepare, we continually capture and use metrics to communicate to project sponsors and improve project success. The monitored criteria include time, cost, resources, scope, quality, and outstanding action items. We display project progress against criteria in a collaborative environment for near-real-time dashboard reporting, using simple but powerful icons (stop lights, charts, graphs) that focus attention on areas that need consideration.

Need governance of multiple projects across an enterprise to enable you to manage, monitor, and assess project status? Get started with a uniform set of enterprise-wide project management processes and a roadmap or plan to achieve success. Our EPM Roadmap™ service provides an iterative approach to the deployment of Microsoft's Enterprise Project Management Solution 2007. The iterations begin with small controlled deployments and progress to more complex rollouts, with each iteration building on the foundation laid by the previous stage. The result--your organization's project management capabilities integrated into a roadmap that enables you to achieve project success across the enterprise.

Establish the strategy, tactics, and processes needed for successful portfolio management. Portfolio management is designed to help an organization acquire and view information about all of its projects, then sort and prioritize each project according to certain criteria, such as strategic value and impact on resources. Our project specialists can organize your critical technology projects into a single portfolio consisting of reports that capture project objectives, effort, timelines, earned value, accomplishments, resources, risks and other critical factors. This enables your executives to prioritize projects, spread resources appropriately, and continually reevaluate and adjust projects to produce the highest returns.

Measure project progress objectively and develop an 'early warning' system for project performance. Our qualified specialists combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated Earned Value Management (EVM) system that adheres to EIA748-A. EVM data can improve the definition of project scope, prevent scope creep, communicate objective progress to stakeholders, achieve performance to schedule, and keep the project team focused on achieving progress. We use EVM as a key component in achieving performance to schedule and to emphasize task accountability with client project teams.

We are often called on to rescue projects in near-crisis states and understand well the risks that projects face. The key is to proactively identify and assess risks to enable effective risk and issue management. Our Risk Management process is based on the PMI PMBOK® Guide and augmented by over 20 years of experience and best practice. It is a five-phase lifecycle process that enables us to identify risks early, assess them fully, and prevent or control consequences. In addition, with our Risk Evaluation Matrix™ we can accurately identify risk exposure, allowing for the appropriate risk mitigation plan to be developed quickly.

Protect your new project from organizational "antibodies" and lack of support that can doom it to failure. We work with your executives and key stakeholders to develop a plan that will enable your organization to gain, manage, and maintain stakeholder buy-in. Our strategic consultants can work with your team to define communication needs, identify techniques to maintain and support user involvement, document success criteria, and identify and manage barriers. Or, we can facilitate the entire change management process for you, using our Transition Management Toolkit™.

The explosion of information content can be complex and difficult to manage. Using proven techniques and tools, along with our knowledge of how people access and use information, our consultants can design and implement the right content management for your organization. We can guide your team in creating explicit policies on the use of intellectual assets, institute feedback mechanisms to continually improve knowledge and content used, and develop metrics to evaluate intellectual capital.

No project can make serious progress without a clear understanding of where it is going and what it is trying to achieve. Document the project vision and link it to clear, measurable business objectives to improve project approval and success rates. We facilitate stakeholder groups to document the vision for the project and identify the business strategy and goals it supports. Our experienced consultants document the vision both graphically and textually to help you communicate, build, and maintain project support.