Effective Project Management helps organizations perform projects.

How is project management helping your organization deliver projects?

You have to execute projects to improve your organization and achieve your strategic goals. You have tried tools and training and consultants but project management is still an administrative nightmare. You put a lot of effort into preparing for important projects, then the next thing you realize, project management is a schedule tracking, status reporting, and blame-assigning mechanism.

If your projects don't consistently meet expectations with regards to cost, timing and quality you aren't unique. Over 70% of strategic projects fail to deliver the value stakeholders expected. There have been millions of bridges and buildings built with well established engineering principles, but businesses aren't cookie cutters and changes are difficulty to predict.

Effective Project Management deals with the uncertainty and the risks that exist in business improvement projects. You will create the five key results you need to get the job done: Sharpened Focus, Transparency, Improved Coordination, Common Understanding, and Reliable Commitments. You will establish the required framework of understanding and techniques improving your ability to deliver the benefits expected from your projects.

Our Efficient Project Management works because it focuses on improvements in the project delivery organization to maintain an accurate status of the project and leverages best practices to predictably deliver results while remaining adaptive.

Our Effective Project Management approach covers these topics:

  • The surprising secrets to shorter time-to-benefit, saving your organization from costly overruns.
  • How to assure you will get what you need from a project without sacrificing additional resources.
  • The myth of the more accurate project schedule that often result in tracking errors.
  • How to communicate the real project status and avoid big surprises saving your organization from damage control.
  • The connection between permitting uncertainty in scheduling and shortening the time to finish the project allowing for greater coordination.
  • The path to dramatically accelerating the pace of projects through your organization reducing time tables and cost overruns.

"We had a strategic enterprise infrastructure project designed to integrate the entire customer enrollment process and it was critical to our continued growth and future success. We were four months in and behind schedule and over budget. We had contracted with a major consultancy to staff and manage the project but we weren't getting results. We made the strategic decision to bring in the Synaptus team. Their effective project management engagement provided two consultants who focused on clarifying what had to be done and improving the collaboration between both the business and technology groups. Within a month our project was back on track from both a time and budget perspective with all critical path risks identified. We delivered the functionality by the original due date and actually reduced the staff we had assigned to the project and came in under budget for the program."

~M.R. COO, Internet Bank

Effective Project Management: Frequently Asked Questions

My business is unique. How can you understand and address my project management issues?

First, because we identify your project organization constraints and break them down to their generic causes through system theory, lean management and social constructivism. Second, because you're the one guiding this process. We believe that most of the knowledge required to solve an issue is present within the organization.

Why would I invest in improving project management?

Because this investment pays back on every project moving forward through reduced Time-to-Benefit, and ultimately makes your organization move through change easier and become more agile and adaptive.

How is this better than deploying Microsoft project?

It's a different animal. It's a set of business concepts, not a computer program. PM Efficiency aligns your efforts to strategic priorities, resolves conflicts and creates a common understanding about what needs to be achieved and how. It drastically increases project performance through adaptive scheduling and managed interactions.

We've invested in project management before and it was a waste of effort.

Here you're making an incremental investment to create effective Project Management. This investment will leverage the traditional best practices you've previously invested in, alleviate the shortcomings of that effort and put you in full control of your organizations Project Management. In the process, you will also understand why your previous Project Management investment didn't meet its expectations. Many times over, we have seen that what was meant to be effective Project Management turned out as more or less sophisticated project administration.

What do I get?

  • Effecive Project Management Capability Maturity Assessment
  • Effective Project Management Best Practices Training
  • Application of Effective Project Management practices to a specific project.
  • Effective Project Management Improvement Plan and Implementation
  • Effective Project Management Scorecard

How long does this initiative take?

This depends on the scope of the project. Often benefits of the effort are produced in 6-8 weeks with two consultants.

Contact us to ask any questions you might have about Effective Project Management or to set up an appointment to discuss this for your business.

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