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Project Management Services
We provide experienced project managers — including Project Manager Professionals (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute — to manage your projects and to assist you with your project goals and objectives, ranging from office restructuring to enterprise information system development.
We offer a broad spectrum of services that can be customized to your requirements including entire project management, best practices consulting, change management, mobilization of external resources, facilitation, and general project support.
The services that we offer include:
- Strategic Project Planning
- Project Scope Development
- Professional Project Management
- Project Management Training
- Budget Development
- Resource Estimation
- Requirements Gathering
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Information Systems Development
- System Security Implementation
- Software Project Management
RTC Approach to Project Management
Our approach to project management uses many project management tools and techniques, including detailed work plans and weekly status reports to identify project progress, plans, risks and issues. RTC uses a comprehensive methodology derived from the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) to manage its consulting projects. This provides project management templates, project plans, software and other tools to control scope, deliverables and activities throughout the project life cycle.
We achieve timely delivery of project results, using these tools to meet your timeline:
*Schedule Controls – Establishment of small, specific milestones within a resource-leveled project plan to which we track and monitor actual progress. The work to be performed is broken down into subtasks within a well-defined unit of work in the project process that provides management with a visible checkpoint into the status of the project. The project’s schedule is closely monitored and tracked through task readiness criteria (pre-conditions) and completion criteria (post-conditions).
*Issue Tracking and Resolution – As activities are monitored throughout the project, corrective action may be taken and may include revising the project plan to reflect the actual accomplishments and re-planning the remaining work or taking actions to improve the performance. Any corrective actions would be reviewed, discussed, documented and approved by Caltrans prior to implementation.
*Risk Assessment and Management – RTC incorporates methods developed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to define, develop and manage the risk process. Assessment allows for the systematic process of identifying, analyzing and responding to risk. RTC creates risk checklists, maintains a risk identification log and documents a risk response actions list, and uses a risk priority tool to assign priority to the highest project risk to determine the order of risk response development.
Progress Reporting
Progress will be monitored against the project work plan. We will monitor the deliverables produced, time expended against the work plan and the overall project schedule. The key document for monitoring these variables will be the Project Status Report, which is organized into the following sections:
- Work Completed to Date
Describes the tasks accomplished and the content and status of associated deliverables.
- Scheduled Status
Compares tasks and deliverables completed against those scheduled to date and explains the cause of any variances, as well as options to compensate for such variances.
- Work to be Completed
Describes major activities and deliverables scheduled for the next reporting period.
- Issues, Risks and Problems
Highlights key issues and concerns posed by the project team, which may need to be prioritized and addressed by RTC and client management. Resolutions to previously reported problems will be reported, as well as alternative resolutions to new pending problems, as appropriate.
Change Control Procedures
RTC uses a special process to track requests for changes to any aspect of a project. Without proper change control procedures, the risk to successfully complete the project within budget and schedule greatly increases. Change control is used in conjunction with acceptance of project deliverables throughout the project life cycle to ensure that the required deliverables are achieved. This is used by project team members and includes documentation changes, changes to the number of interviewees, additional work that was not included in the original scope of the proposal, or other changes.
Renée Taylor Consulting
Tel. 1 (530) 692 2000
expert@rt-consulting.com
Based in Sacramento
Serving State government clients and other public sector and private clients internationally
expert@rt-consulting.com
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