Project Management

Our Project Management Guide

As you know project management practices influence more than individual projects—they affect the overall health of a company’s project portfolio and the ability to advance its overall strategy.

 We can help develop and improve your project management and project portfolio management (PPM) framework, allowing you to prioritize and execute strategic projects that will deliver tangible, sustainable benefits.

Our approach to PPM is to understand your culture and right-size practices to fit your organizational needs, aligning our recommended structure, tools, and processes with your goals and resources.

Pearly Bleuwaters (PBW) can lead your organization in establishing or enhancing an effective Project Management Office (PMO) and build your project, program, and portfolio management capabilities. If time is of the essence, our Collaborative PMO (cPMO) will rapidly install a world-class team to begin adding value on Day One. IPM can also help transform your organization using key elements from our proprietary Strategy Realization

Model (SRM), addressing your company’s strategic direction, strategic alignment, and strategic execution.

PBW’s offerings include the following distinctive services

STRATEGY REALIZATION MODEL

  • Establish framework, process, and discipline across an organization to accomplish the essential strategic objectives for success
  • Align finite resources throughout the organization to ensure the most important things get done
  • Enable visibility to project and portfolio performance to ensure realization of organizational benefits

PPM/PMO MATURITY ASSESSMENT

  • Assess current methodologies and tools with a focus on strategy, project management, PPM, and change management practices through a formal assessment process utilizing seven success factors
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of decision-making, communication, and governance
  • Prioritize recommendations and provide a sequenced roadmap for increased growth using IPM’s proprietary maturity model

PPM ENHANCEMENT/IMPLEMENTATION

  • Align portfolio projects to strategic goals
  • Establish/enhance project prioritization and selection process
  • Develop PPM analysis process, including resource capacity and portfolio balance
  • Provide portfolio management leadership

PMO ENHANCEMENT/IMPLEMENTATION

  • Establish/enhance PM processes, tools, templates, and governance
  • Develop project communication strategies
  • Provide onsite PMO Director leadership, including management of PM staff

PPM SOFTWARE SELECTION & IMPLEMENTATION

  • Understand goals and requirements of a new software solution
  • Provide an objective short-list of market vendors suited for the organization, scored for alignment to needs and maturity
  • Support the end-to-end implementation of PM/PPM software with project management leadership to ensure maximum adoption and integration with other technology

COLLABORATIVE PMO

  • Scale up or down, or change direction, based on the needs of the business
  • Rapidly deploy a fully staffed, world-class PMO that begins adding value on Day One
  • Provide onsite PMO leadership, including management of PM staff, enabling you to focus on your organization’s core competencies

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