Managing the Project Environment
For years there has been a shift in Corporate America to
project oriented organizations. Companies are supporting their long-range
strategies by accomplishing short-term goals and objectives. These goals
and objectives are being completed in a team environment with well defined
expectations for product or solution results. When one goal is reached
another team is formed to take on another goal or objective. This concept
requires effective leaders who can move from one team to another effectively.
Tomorrow's Leader has extensive experience in creating and
managing the project and team environment. Our consultants have developed
project management methodologies for multi-million dollar corporations and have
led global projects for the numerous industries including government,
telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, retail, and information
technology. We offer customized services for our clients to ensure
optimized return on investment while producing on-time and on-budget results.
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Effective project management requires a framework that
supports repeatable processes with tools and techniques that create the most
efficient project organization. Many organizations develop tools and
processes, but lack the disciple to use them effectively because the framework
constrains creativity.
Let us help you create right processes and tools needed
to manage the project environment while realizing the fullest capability of your
project team. Our service is customized based on your needs but falls into
one of two categories:
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Project Management Office
services are made up of analyzing the way you currently manage multiple
projects better known as program management. We evaluate the need to
create an organization group called the Project Management Office or PMO.
The PMO would be responsible for overall project management processes, tools,
training, and guidance to enhance the overall effectiveness of your project
management environment.
We use several assessment tools and interviews to gather information about
your current framework. After gathering the information we analyzing
your programs to see if there are improvements that need to be made. A
list of recommendations is created for your review and approval. Our
consultants can even assist in implementing all or any number of
recommendations.
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Project Management Methodology
services focus primarily on the processes, techniques, tools, and skills your
project managers (or team leaders) use to lead the project team and accomplish
the goals. The project environment demands effective repeatable
processes that hit at the heart of the task but are flexible enough to mold to
the current situation.
We have the knowledge, skills, and expertise to develop a complete project
management methodology to fit your project environment needs. Our
consultants have developed complete methodologies from the ground up and have
also improved existing methodologies making them work for the organization
rather than creating unneeded structure.
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SAMPLE of some
of our Basic Tool Kit forms. Feel free to use these as they fit your
organization.
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With the project management framework as effective as
possible, it then comes to the quality of your team leaders or project managers
to use the framework to achieve success projects. Using the framework as
designed is critical to minimizing costs across projects and keeping projects on
track.
Our on-site consulting service can help you maximize the
benefits of your framework quickly. Our on-site consulting is tailored to
meet your needs. Together we discuss your needs and come up with a
solution to make sure your framework is used to its fullest. Our on-site
consulting services include:
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Formal Training Courses
are developed around your framework to train a large number of team leaders
together. We use our expertise in project management processes along with
our instructional design process to create a performance-based program that
ensures skill transfer to the project leaders. The courses can be
developed for classroom delivery or they be designed as self paced instruction -
you choose.
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On-site Coaching and Mentoring
services are designed for those team leaders who need just little
encouragement and one-on-one instruction. In most cases the team leaders
are well qualified in many areas, but lack some skill maturity in other areas.
We tailor the coaching and mentoring sessions to coincide with actual project
activities. Unlike classroom or self-paced instruction, our coaching and
mentoring services are conducted on "live" projects. We allow the project
manager to steer the ship with guidance and support from their mentor.
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On-site Project Management Support
is a service that helps you extend your existing project management staff.
Many companies find that they have too many goals to achieve but don't want to
hire the additional staff to handle a short term need. Our certified
project managers will come on-site and manage your project needs.
We can manage your project regardless of the stage it is currently in.
From initiation to close-out we provide highly qualified and certified
consultants. Even if you have a troubled or distressed project that is
behind schedule and over budget, we can in many situations help get the project
back on track
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