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The key to successful project management is managing the scope! As simple a concept as it is in theory, in practice it can be very difficult. At PMCC, we offer a variety of consulting/ mentoring, teaming, and training services to help you get the important things done right! On projects ranging from internal PM process improvements to the construction of one of the largest structures on earth, PMCC has helped companies to apply best practice on award winning projects.
Key concepts and processes that PMCC can help your company incorporate include:
Use of Project Charters to properly transfer the corporate vision/mission or the client needs into project deliverables.
Assistance in establishing estimating processes and procedures that tie to best practice project management practices including the use of a Work Breakdown Structures and a feedback loop that allows estimating to analyze final project results in terms that help the future estimating effort.
Utilizing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) to tie cost and schedule together! This simple concept can be a “bear” to implement! PMCC has assisted several companies with over 10,000 employees and worldwide operations to tie the WBS to the corporate chart of accounts so that both accounting and project teams get meaningful information that helps them do a better job.
Mentoring of project managers for key corporate projects. PMCC can serve as the “subject manager expert” for your key projects and provide mentoring on what actions should be occurring as the project advances through the project life cycle. Many project managers only work on “key” projects once in a while; PMCC has worked on literally hundreds of mission critical projects involving fluctuating scope and dispersed project teams. We can help project managers avoid the pitfalls we have seen committed on other projects where we were called in “after the fire”!
Focus on the scope early! Many project managers make the mistake of focusing on team building at the expense of scope management during the project initiation phase. Fearful of spoiling the euphoria (also known as the kumbayah syndrome) that can exist between the project team and the client/business unit owner in the first days and weeks after project initiation, project teams will not raise critical issues related to scope boundaries and methods for “how they will agree to disagree” that will return to haunt them later on. PMCC can audit projects to make sure that key practices (including scope and change management) are implemented early in the project life cycle.
Scope management is closely tied to Change management. No proposed project survives contact with reality! Change is not good or bad…it is inevitable! Therefore, change management procedures must to be tied closely to scope management. If you don’t have a process for handling change in a manner that properly allocates the associated risks, your project is doomed to have overruns! PMCC can facilitate and/or write PM scope and change management process and procedures for your company that help to properly allocate the risks introduced by client and/or internal requests for scope changes.
Training! Project managers are not born with a set of innate set of skills and competencies related to scope management. They must be taught! Elsewhere on this web page, you will see a sample of the over 70 courses that PMCC has developed and can customize to deliver to your PM staff wherever they are located on the face of the good earth.
For more information or to schedule a conference call to discuss how PMCC might help your company or project team with project scope management, please call us at 713-278-PMCC(7622).
A Sampling of PMCC courses related to Project Scope Management that can be customized to meet the needs of your project organization:
