Development organizations face a long list of challenges, from personnel reductions, tight budgets, rising costs, and increasing security risks to ever-increasing competition for funding. As varied as they are, however, those challenges all point to one fundamental development imperative: organizations must improve the impact of their projects.

To deliver impact, a project team has to do much more than "work harder"; it has to improve how it solves new problems by rapidly introducing new management processes and technologies. The team must quickly learn new skills and tasks to increase efficiency and continuously reduce operating costs.

PM4DEV understands that such efficiency results from many complex, interrelated factors, ranging from technology and processes to culture, incentives, and reward systems. To drive efficiency, development organizations must address these factors holistically. To create a complete, efficiency-enhancing environment, they must ensure that these factors come together at all three levels of the organization: top management, the project team, and the individual.

The success of every project depends on the organization’s ability to build a project management culture, to identify functional and technological gaps, and to develop solutions to achieve its goals. The primary focus of our consulting services is to partner with you to gather information, explore options, and identify solutions that will make an impact on your organization.
 

• Organizational Performance Development
• Project Management Methodology
• Learning and Talent Development
• Project Review and Recovery

Organizational Performance Development

Our consulting services provide a holistic approach to improving project management performance in your organization. Using our assessment tools, we identify the opportunities for your organization to improve your current project management practices. We know that organizations that apply appropriate processes and structures will manage initiatives more effectively.

PM4DEV Consulting Services can help your organization improve project performance with time-tested approaches implemented in hundreds of organizations. These include:

• Project Management Maturity Assessment
• Performance Measurement
• Culture and Change Management
• Project Management Office
• Project Portfolio Management

Using a proprietary assessment tool, PM4DEV can measure the performance of your organization’s practices, evaluate their effectiveness, and demonstrate strategic impact. The assessment gives you the information you need to understand how your project management processes, tools, training initiatives, and overall strategies are performing, so you can make informed decisions and choose the best options to improve performance.

Learning and Talent Development

Our Learning and Talent Development Services are designed to help you and your organization identify key project management competencies and create development activities to build your organization's project management talent.

A competent project manager needs to be able to analyze a situation across different contexts and develop multiple action plans. Regardless of formal training, competencies grow with experience and the degree of flexibility in learning and adapting.

Our Learning and Talent development services include the following:
 

• Competency Assessments and Development
• Project Management Career Path Development
• Targeted Training Plans
• Course Customization
• Post-Course Mentoring
• Outsourced Training Administration

We can help your organization move beyond the perception that project management is a skill that is reserved for project managers. In reality, project management is an organizational competency. If the organizational strategy implements strategic changes and those changes are executed as projects, project management must be an organizational capability rather than a job skill. If project management is an organizational competency, we should develop a training program to build everyone's project management knowledge and skills.

Project Review and Recovery

Our consulting services are designed to provide the best advice to help your organization or project. Our consulting approach includes an assessment designed to discover the root cause of problems and devise a range of appropriate solutions:

• Assessment and Analysis: Our consultants can help you identify the root causes of your project management problems. We help identify the underlying problems beyond the symptoms and effects that lead to complaints. We work with your team to identify root causes, analyze the problem from multiple perspectives, and chart the desired levels of practices, operations, and capabilities within a project management maturity framework that your organization should adopt.
• Recommendations and Solutions: We help you identify potential approaches to solve problems. We use a participatory approach to generate ideas that build ownership of the solution. We make recommendations based on our extensive experience and offer you the best approach for implementing the chosen solution. We help you develop a long-term strategy, including a roadmap and key milestones, to monitor your progress and achieve the expected benefits. We supplement it by identifying short-term opportunities and quick wins to address the most pressing issues.
• Support and Implementation: We can help your organization implement the identified solutions and develop a customized methodology that fits your organizational culture while enabling growth and flexibility. Supporting the implementation of the recommendations includes providing training and coaching for 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, using your policies, forms, and tools so your teams can immediately start applying their new skills.

Project Management Methodology

Our services include developing customized methodologies. We work with your organization to develop a customized project management manual that serves as a guide to establish a common framework for all projects. The result is a handbook that includes your logo, terminology, tools, and other items unique to your organization. The benefits of your own project management manual include:

• Effective planning and control of projects.
• Documentation of your customized project management approach and adaptation to your unique organizational needs.
• Establishing a process for communicating learning experiences.
• Enabling continuous improvement of the project process and establishing a process to maximize the use of project resources.

PM4DEV provides the expertise and framework within which your guide is developed. We're developing the project management guide so you can keep PM4DEV expertise with you. This service also transfers responsibility for the process and its continuous improvement to internal management.

The intent is for your organization to be self-supporting at the end of the process. The services include developing project management job descriptions, roles, and responsibilities for project staff. This improves project management efficiency and effectiveness, which in turn drives organizational behavior and supports more effective change management.

We guide the methodology development and let your team make the critical decisions. This approach ensures ownership of the final deliverables, a strategy that will make the implementation and adoption of the methodology a success.

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We deliver flexible solutions tailored to your organization's needs. Our consulting services will enable you to quickly realize the many benefits of our project management methodology. Partnering with us helps you reduce implementation risk, ensure user adoption, and maximize your return on investment in PM4DEV solutions.
 

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's success.
• Methodology. Our processes and methodology were developed through successful engagements, so PM4DEV professionals can work at maximum speed and efficiency.

Send an e-mail to info@pm4dev.com for information on consulting services, or schedule an interview with one of our representatives.