You've received approval for a complex and critical project. The success or failure of this project will have a lasting impact on your organization and your career. Your organization has mixed results with delivery of highly complex projects, and you are not sure if everyone is up to date on the latest development tools, methodologies, training, and quality processes. What can you do to ensure that the project has the highest chance for success?
XD3 project management specialists believe that the majority of project failures result from poor project initiation despite existing methodologies and quality processes. There are many factors which lead to poor initiation but the net result is the same. The typical project never gets "started on track" and never has a chance to be successful. It is much easier for a project management team to keep a well initiated project "on track" than to constantly battle a project that did not get properly initiated.
Our experience has proven than an extra investment at the beginning of a project can dramatically increase the potential of success for that project. XD3 can assist your project manager with the launch of a critical project by ensuring that key elements such as a communications plan, document repository, change control, issue resolution process, and deliverable review and approval process are properly established. Our specialists can provide the experience, expertise, and support necessary to ensure that your critical project gets "Started on Track".
You've recently attended a Steering Committee meeting for Project A, a key project within your business group that you helped to successfully initiate many months ago. You're pleased with the progress of the project and the obvious benefits that are being reaped from the solid methodology and strong project initiation program. However, you were stunned to hear that Project X, upon which Project A is critically dependent, had implemented an extensive change in design and schedule several weeks ago. Project A was aware of its dependency on Project X but the same couldn't be said about Project X. In a seemingly unrelated event, you learned that several projects had recently decided to adopt their own methodologies and hardware/software platforms despite words of caution from the Quality Assurance and Architecture groups. How did this happen?
In today's world, the problem of Project Islands is an increasingly dangerous issue for businesses. A Project Island is a project which believes that it can exist and be successful without any or limited communication with or adherence to the standards of the mainland community. The Project Islands can result in major disconnects between various initiatives and wasted money spent on unapproved training, software, and hardware.
XD3 can help you to establish a strong Project Mission Control (PMC) or repair/fortify an existing PMC which will help to prevent Project Islands from developing and to join existing Project Islands to the Mainland. Project Mission Control will ensure that all projects are utilizing approved methodologies, software, hardware, tools and vendors. The dependencies between projects will be identified, tracked, and verified through the PMC. Quality Assurance and Architecture groups will be given greater leverage through the support and follow through of the Project Mission Control. Our clients typically experience positive feedback and results within a few short weeks of the establishment or repair of a PMC.
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