A standard, consistent approach to IT project management helps projects, and your department, be successful. It allows you to establish ground rules and expectations at the beginning so that everyone is on the same page. It enables the project to run more smoothly because there is a common approach and terminology. Finally, and importantly, the project can be measured more effectively, which helps hone in on future improvements for managing projects.

IT People offers the project management and the IT experience to step in and help. We have certified project managers who have successfully managed fixed-price IT projects for our customers – meeting expectations and delivering quality results.

Our skills and track record enable us to offer project management as a service for anyone needing help, whether it’s to get a single project completed effectively and efficiently, augment their project management staffing in general, or simply improve their project management acumen.

Business Benefits

    • Deliver projects successfully, balancing time, budget and scope
    • Achieve end results that meet quality and user expectations
    • Attain tight change control
    • Satisfy business partners

Our Project Management Services

Planning
      • Establish project scope
      • Estimate the effort
      • Prepare schedule and budget
      • Select the right SDLC methodology
      • Establish RACI matrix
      • Establish project governance and communication mechanism
      • Prepare project plan with all dependencies identified
      • Identify risks and prepare a mitigation plan
      • Identify the right resources to execute the project
      • Define key metrics to be tracked
Execution
      • Identify tasks on critical path and accordingly allocate tasks
      • Regularly track progress of the project against the plan and budget
      • Conduct project team meetings and facilitate issue resolution
      • Ensure there is no scope creep
      • Invoke change control as necessary and seek additional time and budget as required
      • Control ramp-up and ramp-down of resources to ensure project stays within budget
      • Execute risk mitigation plan as necessary
Quality
      • Ensure a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) is created
      • Review and approve all major deliverables, including requirements, RTM, test plans, test cases and test results
      • Facilitate review of critical deliverables such as architecture, design, code artifacts
      • Facilitate gating decision meetings and provide or secure necessary approvals
Communication
      • Prepare weekly, monthly status reports and circulate to the key stakeholders
      • Facilitate governance meetings
      • Ensure key stakeholders’ inputs are considered during execution, risk management and escalation management

Our Best Practices

    • Effort estimation techniques tailored for various SDLC methodologies
    • Project schedule and plan preparation with all dependencies identified
    • Task allocation
    • Project risks identification and mitigation
    • Monitoring project progress and adhering to schedule, budget
    • Critical path identification and management
    • Change control and management
    • Project governance
    • Project status reporting