Project Management
Techno Management is a regional leader in providing End-to-End Project Management services that form the building blocks of the Enterprise Project Management solutions. We work closely with our customer to increase the organization readiness level to implement Enterprise Project Management successfully. This includes
· Adopt the industry standard PMI
· Develop Project Management Methodologies
· Provide Web-Based Management Tools
· Specialized Project Management Training
Our achievements in many countries in the Middle East and Africa are a result of our continuous endeavors to combine talent, quality and values together in our offerings that cover Enterprise Project management needs of our clients.
Project Management Services
The system provides the following strategic functions
- Project Management as a Service
- MS Project Server Implementation
- Resource Management
- Project Management Readiness Assessment
- Project Management
- Project Managers’ Assessment
- Project Audit
- PMO Services Suite
- Define the PMO Key Performance Indicators
- PMO Setup
- Developing Project Management Methodology
Project Management as a Servicesystem benefits
HPMS is a service that is provided to clients to assist them to better managing their projects. The service is about delivering onsite project management and project audit using the EPMView hosted platform. In this service clients will get on-site service that will deliver the following:
- Training
- Project Planning
- Project Scheduling and Schedule Updates
- Issues Management
- Rusk Management
- Documentation management
- Project Audit
- Reports Review
- General Project Management Activities from Project Inception till Project Closing
MS Project Server Implementation
Microsoft Project Server streamlines project activities. It provides organizations with a central platform that centrally manages a repository for standardized
project and resource data. Microsoft Project Server provides teams with convenient access to the project information through its Web interface. This
service covers the following scope:
Resource ManagementProject Management
By applying Techno Management Resource Management, customers can ensure that the right resources are working on the right projects, based on real-time project timelines as the project evolves. Below are the general benefits of applying Techno Management’s Resource Planning Services.
- Gain Visibility and Control: Achieve complete visibility into resource utilization, skills profiles, bookings and more.
- Optimize Resource Utilization: Reduce dependence on resource management manual work with real-time tracking of skills and availability and centralized, up-to-date, searchable resource profiles
- Enhance Efficiency and Productivity: Robust utilization reporting allows you to select the metrics that matter most-worked hours, allocated hours, assigned hours and more
Service Delivery Approach
- Conduct awareness sessions to all resources to explain the system
- Meet with the resource managers to identify the resources utilization mechanism
- Load the resources on the project schedule
- Produce the loaded schedules to be reviewed by the managers
- Receive the feedback from the resource managers to update the system
- Identify areas of future resource demands to the resource managers
- Produce the resource utilization reports
- Recommend resource leveling to respond to workload changes
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Outsourcing Project Management is a cost effective solution for organizations which do not have the right Project Management skills to manage complex projects. Techno Management will work closely with their customers during the project life within the following scope:
- RFP Preparations
- Proposal Evaluation
- Contract Negation
- Planning, Execution, Control and Close Out
- Risk Management
- Timely Reporting
- Timely Project Meetings, like:
- Kick off meetings
- Steering Committee Meetings
- Status report Meeting
- Progress Meeting
PROJECT MANAGERS’ ASSESSMENTProject Management
Project Managers Evaluation is one of the services that would be provided by the Project Manager’s office. However, Techno Management is ready to do this service on behalf of the Customer. This service will cover the following scope:
- Identify the required Project Manager’s profiles.
- Identify the matching profile internally.
- Interview candidates.
Evaluate the project managers’ performance as per the PMI standards
PROJECT AUDIT
Project auditing is a very useful service to projects based organizations. Through which, organization will be able to measure how effective their Project Management methodology is, and how far the project team members are complying with the methodology. During this service, Techno Management will do the following
- Ensure the compliance to the Project Management methodology.
- Identify any problem with the applied methodology.
- Coach the project managers in complex projects.
- Document the auditing results which can be used as “Lessons Learned”
- Help in changing the PM culture within the organization.
DEFINE THE PMO KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORSProject Management
Techno Management will work with the Organization to define the project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). These KPIs will be based on the Earned Value Management technique (EVM). This technique is adopted by the Project Management Institute (PMI), as the standard of project management performance measures and is based on the following parameters
- Planed Value
- Actual Cost
- Earned Value
From the above three parameters, the following, measures are also produced:
- Schedule Variance
- Cost Variance
- Schedule Performance Index
- Variance at Completion
- Cost Performance Index
- Budget at Completion
Applying the EVM requires the project schedule to be loaded by the resources cost, which may be challenging to some organizations. When EVM is not applicable within an organization, alternatives can be applied, like the following parameters:
- Start Variance
- Finish Variance
- Duration Variance
Project MeasuresThe KPIs will be based on the following performance measurement factors:
- Project Health
- Project Progress
- Project Earned Value
- Project Progress
- Project Cost Variance
- Project Schedule Variance
- Project Issues
- Project Risks
- Variation Orders
PMO SETUPProject Management
Once the organization has the right Project Management methodology in place and the right project team structure, the need for the Project Management Office immerges. Techno Management will work closely with their customers to create the PMO, who will be capable of achieving the following:
- Own the overall organization PM vision.
- Own an overall view of the ongoing projects.
- Introduce the proper Project Management tools.
- Take over the runaway projects.
- Establish risk mitigation processes.
- Review and manage the project portfolio.
- Conduct project reviews and audits.
- Organize and manage the resource pool.
- Identify and develop project managers.
- Recruit the new project managers needed.
- Introduce the Corporate PM S/W
DEVELOPING PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGYProject Management
Having identified the need for the corporate methodology, Techno Management will work with the organization and apply the best practices to produce the most suitable methodology that fits the customer’s environment. Developing a corporate Project Management methodology will cover the following scope:
- Study the current customer’s Project Management process.
- Analyze the existing customer’s Project Management process.
- Identify the current projects’ problems.
- Develop a new PM methodology.
- Spread the methodology awareness amongst the customer’s teams.
- Receive any feedback and update the proposed methodology accordingly.
- Run the necessary training for selected core team.
PMO SERVICES SUITEProject Management
Techno Management provides a wide range of services required for the Project Management Office. These services include the following:
- Project Management Readiness Assessment
- Project Management Methodology Development
- Define the PMO Key Performance Indicators
- Project Audit
- Project Managers’ Assessment