| Our Methodology |
The Project Management
Cycle is the method designed by PM4DEV to facilitate the different
phases of a project; from the first ideas, proposal, planning,
implementation monitoring, adaptation/learning, close and evaluation
of projects.
It provides a consistent approach to
all components of the intervention cycle, ensuring beneficiary
orientation (relevance), a comprehensive perspective on interventions
(feasibility and sustainability) and effective monitoring
and evaluation.
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Project
Management Consulting & Assessments
Development organizations face a long list of challenges from
personnel reductions, tight budgets, rising costs, increasing
security risks and ever-increasing competition for funding. As
varied as they are, however, those challenges all point to one
fundamental development imperative - improve project impact .
To deliver impact, a project team has to do much more than just “work
harder”, it has to increase the way it solves new problems by
rapidly introducing new management processes and technologies;
learn new skills and tasks quickly; and increase efficiency to
continuously reduce operating costs. At the same time, the organization
must be able to manage and support the same level of efficiency
across all projects.
PM4DEV understands that such efficiency is the result of many
complex, interrelated factors, ranging from technology and processes
to culture and incentive and reward systems. To drive efficiency,
development organizations must address those factors in a holistic
fashion. And they must ensure that those factors come together
at all three levels of the organization; from the organizations
top management to the project team and the individual, in order
o create a complete efficiency-enhancing environment.
The success of every project depends on the ability of organizations
to build a project management culture, organizations need to
identify the functional and technological gaps and develop the
solutions to achieving those goals. The primary focus of our
assessment services is to partner with you to gather information,
explore options and identify solutions that will make an impact
at your organization.
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Assessment and Analysis Services
Our consulting services are designed
to provide with the best advice to help your organization or
project. Our consulting approach includes an assessment designed
to discover the root cause problems and device a range of appropriate
solutions:
- Assessment and Analysis. Our
consultants can help you identify the root causes for your project
management problems, we help identify the real problem beyond
the symptoms and effects that people usually complain. By identifying
root causes we work with your team to analyze the problem from
different perspectives and chart the desired level of practices,
operations and capabilities under a project management maturity
framework your organization should achieve.
- Recommendations and Solutions.
We help you identify potential approaches to solve problems,
we have a participative approach for the creation of ideas
designed to build ownership of the solution; we recommend,
based on our extensive practice, the best approach to implement
the chose solution. We help you develop a long term strategy
that will incorporate a roadmap and key milestones to monitor
your progress and achieve the expected benefits; supplemented
by the identification of short-term opportunities and quick
wins to help alleviate the most pressing issues and challenges
that need immediate attention.
- Support and Implementation. We
can help your organization implement the identified solutions,
develop a customized methodology that fits your organizational
culture and allows for growth and flexibility. Supporting the
implementation of the recommendations includes the services
of training and coaching your staff on the new methodologies
and processes designed for your organization. Rather than using
generic course material, we customize our training content
to fit your environment, including policies, forms and tools
required for your teams to start applying their new skills
immediately.
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Project Methodology and Guide
Our services also include the development of customized methodologies;
by working with your organization we will assist you through
the development of a customized project management manual that
can be used as a guide to establish a common framework for all
the projects. The result is a handbook which has your logo, your
terminology, your tools, and other items unique to your organization.
The benefits of your own project management manual include:
- Supports effective planning and control of projects.
- Documents your customized project management approach.
- Adapts to unique and general organizational needs.
- Establishes a process for communicating learning experiences.
- Enables continuous improvement of the project process.
- Establishes a process for maximum use of project resources.
PM4DEV provides the expertise and framework within which your
guide is developed. Development of the project management guide
is designed to leave the PM4DEV expertise with you. This service
also ensures that responsibility for the process and its continuous
improvement has been transferred to internal management.
The intent is for your organization to be self-supporting at
the end of the process. The services include development of project
management job descriptions and roles and responsibilities for
project staff. The result is efficiency and effectiveness of
project management, which drives the organizational behavior
and enables more effective change management.
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Research and
Insight
Our project management research services
provide insights and valuable information for solutions focused
on the development project challenges. We conduct customized
research that are tailored to our client's needs, objectives,
research, and budget, and provide innovative, practical
solutions for pressing challenges. By leveraging our expert knowledge
and our in-house research data PM4DEV provides an interactive
analysis of organizations capabilities and opportunities to develop
custom consulting services that provide a well-rounded, comprehensive
view of the environment
Areas of research:
- Project management frameworks and methodologies
- Human resource practices and organizational behavior
- Stakeholder relationships
- Risk management
- Information management and communications technology, ICT
- Project monitoring and evaluation and logframes
We deliver the sophisticated analysis and insight development
professionals need to make sound decisions and ultimately, demonstrate
the value of their services to donors, beneficiaries and the
community.
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Management Services
If you have a critical project that needs
to succeed but find yourself lacking the experience to properly
complete the project, you're not alone. In fact, government studies
find that only 10% of projects ever finish on time. That is why
at PM4DEV we offer Management Services.
We work with your project staff to implement the tools and methods
needed to attain timely project completion. We can even help
set up a Project Management methodology if your project currently
does not support one. Our intensive planning and implementation
sessions can be customized to meet your project needs so you
see first hand how tools and methods are applied on the project.
We help condense completion times, align the project team, create
an efficient work plan and identify deliverables all in a time
frame and at a pace that works for you. Follow up visits and
remote coaching sessions help identify how well the tools and
methods are being implemented and what further actions are needed.
Our Management Services include:
- New Projects, we help develop
the plan and structural organization of a new project that
requires a new approach. Development of project plans, schedules,
risk assessments, communication plans and stakeholder analysis.
We help you develop the skills of the project team and train
the team in the use of the new tools to improve their chances
for success. Services include the development of a project
information management systems customized to the unique needs
of the project.
- Current Projects, current
project facing difficulties that need a review of their management
practices and changes in their processes to bring the project
back in track. We review the current practices and identify
knowledge gaps to develop a plan to build skills and a change
plan, including definition of roles and responsibilities, strategies
to bring the project back in track and new processes to help
streamline the project work.
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Extending the Capabilities
of Project Management
PM4DEV consultants understand how you do your work, we're uniquely
positioned to help you achieve measurable success by utilizing
a unified approach that combines:
- Reliability . PM4DEV works closely
with you to ensure a successful project outcome. Our job isn't
finished until we've achieved your goals.
- Expertise . No one understands
PM4DEV products like the people who build them. PM4DEV consultants
have the necessary knowledge and resources to guarantee your
project success.
- Methodology . Our proven processes
and methodology were developed during successful engagements
allowing PM4DEV professionals to work with maximum speed
to efficiency.
PM4DEV can deliver flexible solutions tailored to the unique
needs of your organization. Our consulting services will enable
you to quickly take advantage of the many benefits of our project
management methodology. By teaming with us, you will diminish
implementation risk, ensure user adoption, and maximize your
overall investment in PM4DEV solutions.
Send us an e-mail to consulting@pm4dev.com
for information on consulting services. Or schedule
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| Development Projects
Challenges |
Development projects face
constant demands to do more with less, and donors and beneficiaries
are demanding more accountability and professionalism in the
delivery of development services.
A leading root cause for many of the problems
facing development organizations is the lack of a project management
methodology used in a consistent, predictable, and reliable manner.
The lack of project management methodologies
results in the duplication of efforts, which affect the bottom
line of the organization's development goals by producing outcomes
at higher costs, increased risks, and within an environment of
distrust from donors and stakeholders.
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