Right-Size Project Management for Infrastructure and Operations
Equip your project managers with a purpose-built approach to project management.
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Failure to properly plan and manage projects can result in:
- Sub-optimal project outcomes (poor quality, over time, and over budget).
- Cancelled projects.
- Low satisfaction with IT.
Effectively planning and managing projects results in:
- Successful project outcomes.
- Better project management decision making.
- Higher business satisfaction with IT.
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
Book NowModule 1: Analyze the Current State
The Purpose
- Assess the current state of infrastructure project management and establish a realistic target state.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Realistic and well-informed workshop goals.
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| 1.1 | Introductions and workshop expectations activity. |
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| 1.2 | Complete Info-Tech’s PPM Current State Scorecard diagnostic survey. |
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| 1.3 | Assess pain points and analyze root causes. |
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Module 2: Define Project Management Baselines
The Purpose
- Establish key project and project management baselines before building the process out.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Stakeholder alignment on things like “what is a project?” and “how much time do we have for project management responsibilities?”
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| 2.1 | Refine the definition of a project for your infrastructure team. |
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| 2.2 | Establish the criteria for assessing project levels to right-size project management processes. |
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| 2.3 | Perform a high-level project capacity assessment. |
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Module 3: Establish Right-Sized Planning Processes
The Purpose
- Develop appropriate initiation and planning practices for your infrastructure projects.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Standardized and sustainable initiation and planning processes.
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| 3.1 | Define intake and initiation steps for infrastructure projects and project managers. |
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| 3.2 | Create requirements-driven scope statements and a plan for managing project changes. |
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| 3.3 | Create a task breakdown and schedule and define roles. |
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Module 4: Develop Execution and Closure Protocol
The Purpose
- Develop appropriate execution and closure practices for your infrastructure projects.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Standardized and sustainable execution and closure processes.
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| 4.1 | Plan organizational change management aspects of a project. |
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| 4.2 | Create a communications plan. |
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| 4.3 | Develop project status reporting and risk management processes. |
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| 4.4 | Develop a closure checklist. |
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Module 5: Define an Implementation Plan
The Purpose
- Define an implementation approach for your new processes.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Well defined next steps on how to implement the tools and processes defined during the workshop.
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| 5.1 | Map your target state process. |
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| 5.2 | Configure the Infrastructure and Operations Project Management Workbook. |
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| 5.3 | Plan training requirements and define an implementation plan. |
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