Project Management Consulting Services
Frequently a client needs guidance specific to a particular project or project management topic so, in addition to our training and courses, Martin Training offers Project Management Consulting Services.
Our consulting practice helps Martin Training clients apply essential best practices and the proven methods, tools and techniques of our project management process to their own corporate environment. This hands-on consulting helps clients integrate our project management system to create and complete successful projects on an ongoing basis.
Our consulting practice helps Martin Training clients apply essential best practices and the proven methods, tools and techniques of our project management process to their own corporate environment. This hands-on consulting helps clients integrate our project management system to create and complete successful projects on an ongoing basis.
Project Facilitation
Whether you’re at the beginning, middle or end of a project, our project facilitation services provide tangible value; we can help you properly kick off the new project or rescue one at risk for failure. Using self-assessments we help guide project teams to identify what they're doing right, what areas have gaps, and how to remedy them. For new projects we direct teams through the proper steps for planning and launching their project.
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Establishing a Project Office
Many organizations know that establishing standards for selecting, planning and executing projects results in fewer mistakes, greater efficiency and more consistent results. To achieve this standardization most firms implement an enterprise-wide Project Management Office (PMO) to serve as the hub for project information and methods to give every project a kick start. A PMO can assume many different roles and forms and with our years of experience in this area, our consultants will work with you and your constituencies to determine the best PMO implementation for your organization.
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Schedule and Budget Risk Analysis
With this service, risk assessment is extended into specialized analyses such as modeling a project schedule and/or budget to ascertain the likelihood of project success. We work alongside your project leaders to assess the uncertainty inherent in various aspects of the project, applying computer-based tools to yield the needed adjustments to the project plan. Such analysis pinpoints specific activities that pose a greater threat to the project outcome, and permits adjustments resulting in more efficient allocation of resources and management attention and greater level of confidence either in the committed delivery dates or budget.
Project Initiation, Scheduling and Estimating
Using the right processes from the beginning can mean the difference between a successful project and one of the millions that fail. Rather than force you into a standard template, our consultants first assist you in articulating the objectives and strategy for the project and then demonstrate our “C.O.R.E” approach for successful project planning: “Collaborative, Open Architecture, Results-Oriented, Easy to Use.”
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Earned Value Project Control
A hallmark of professional project management is the increasing application of quantitative methods for task status evaluation. The Earned Value technique provides simple yet visually effective diagnostic data for analyzing past performance and forecasting future accomplishment of project objectives, showing you exactly how well your team is performing. Our consultants will assist your team during the project planning stages to incorporate these techniques in their project plan and provide on-going support and analysis through project execution until your team reaches a self-sustaining level of expertise.
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Risk Management
Another extension of initial risk assessment, Risk Management involves specialized analysis of key factors that may jeopardize the project schedule and/or budget of a particular project. Every project, no matter what size, faces uncertainty during all phases of its life. Uncertainty spells the possibility of failure as well as offering the opportunity to maximize the outcome. MTA consultants with depth of experience from various industry domains can provide skilled coaching in the discovery of risks and assessing the range of influence they may have on the project goals. A focus on the practical ensures that meaningful responses are devised in consideration of project priorities.
This service is best deployed early in the project during initiation or proposal stages. Projects already underway will nevertheless benefit from risk assessment. The extent of service is flexible depending on your needs, ranging from coaching, risk discovery, cataloging of risks, establishing a risk database, designing risk responses and opportunity realization plans. The support can be continued during project execution, as well as assisting with post-project closeout and lessons-learned analysis.
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