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Contact Us | | Why do you Need Portfolio-Engineering? Project Management Knowledge It is likely that many of your leaders have been promoted to management on the basis of their operational and industry experience, their aptitude for working with and inspiring people, and their track record of excellent performance. Portfolio-Engineering can provide specific training and mentoring on the management techniques, methodologies, and tools that your leaders may be missing, to complement and complete their skill sets. [ Top of Page ] 
Sustained Growth, Repeatable Success Organizations that have experienced rapid growth and are now challenged by their own success have often grown through the power of the sum of the individual, heroic contributions of their people. Sustained and continued growth and consistently repeated success may not be possible, or may be significantly limited, due to: Inability to continually recruit exceptionally talented staff Lack of infrastructure to share project findings and best-practices or rapidly introduce standards Organizational challenges of managing talented but autonomous contributors Cost of repeated, individualized reinvention of management solutions
Portfolio-Engineering can help improve the capability of your organization by consulting with your own experts to define a customized, standardized best-practice management methodology including: Value-added documented business processes Simple, effective management tools Proven rapid management techniques
The introduction of a standardized approach to management allows for: Rapid introduction to project management for new employees of differing backgrounds Improved ability to comfortably move staff between projects Continuous improvement by creating an infrastructure from which to learn, adjust and improve Consolidated, enterprise-wide management reporting systems enabled through consistent use of automated project management tools Reduced cost and redundancy of individualized management systems
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Complexity of Project and Portfolio Management Tools Management tools, such as the Microsoft Project Suite, are complex to install, customize and administer and require clear process definition to be used in a way that is optimized for each organization. Portfolio-Management can help you determine your organizational objectives and requirements and can customize and optimize the use of project management tools to meet your needs in a rapid, simple, pragmatic way. We will integrate the tools with your project management methodologies and techniques, provide required training and satisfy your enterprise reporting requirements. [ Top of Page ]
Project Planning Complexity and Projects in Trouble Many of the project cost and time overruns and scope problems experienced by organizations are actually caused very early on in the project lifecycle. Essential steps are missed Checkpoints or gateways are ignored Incomplete and missing requirements and design documents lead to vague project understanding and make thorough quality assurance impossible Incomplete charters leave the project vulnerable to constant redirection Bad project plans lead to inaccurate estimates, proposals and contracts and set project teams up for failure
Portfolio-Engineering will provide tools that will help define the details and risks of the project early on to arrive at accurate project plans that set the project team and the organization up for success. [ Top of Page ]
Organizational Challenges and Resource Management Resources are always limited and organizational opportunities are usually unbounded. Portfolio-Engineering can provide tools and techniques to choose the optimum portfolio of projects to sponsor and monitor their on-going health to maximize return and fulfill the business strategy. Few organizations are (or should be) structured in a “projectized” way. Most are hierarchical, functional or, at best, operate in a matrix fashion creating organizational challenges to temporary, virtual project teams. Portfolio-Engineering can train on techniques to plan and execute projects in a collaborative fashion where team members learn to take personal accountability for their work, allowing the project manager to take the role of facilitator, mentor and chief communicator. In organizations that are sponsoring a complex program (such as an ERP installation or a large scale construction project) or wish to see best-practice project management initiated successfully across the enterprise, Portfolio-Engineering can help establish a successful project or program management office (PMO) through the development of: Program charter Program breakdown structure PMO office roles and responsibilities Program and project management tools and processes Resource management tools and processes
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