 Programme
and project management
Your organisation’s capital investment programmes
and projects can be delivered on time, to budget with
quality exceeding stakeholder expectations, as a result
of Kristal Oak’s provision of:
 progress,
task and issue visibility
delivery
predictability
effective
communications
schedule,
cost and quality control
optimum
use of available skills and resources |
To survive, all businesses need to evolve to satisfy
the changing needs of their customers and reduce costs
through embracing new technologies. This is
the objective of most capital investment programmes
and projects.
“your business
challenges addressed by custom-built solutions that
work”
Programme management involves the long-term development,
management and delivery of a suite of projects that
form part of an organisation’s delivery agenda. The size (ie costs and resources) and complexity of
a programme or project dictates the skills, competencies
and experience of the team required for their successful
delivery.
Programmes and projects may have sound business cases,
with funding available, contractual documents prepared
and experienced specialists and suppliers engaged. However, if parts of programmes and projects are not
properly integrated and managed, it may result in
budget and schedule overruns and compromise on quality.
The effective application of programme
and project management enables the successful integration
and management of all aspects through the delivery
of tailored solutions that work.
How
we can help
At Kristal Oak, we appreciate that
all projects are different even though there may be
similarities. We gain a thorough understanding
of our customers' business processes, operating environment
and the challenges they face, both corporately and
as individual business units to appreciate the significance
of those differences.
"we are delivery
focused"
Our programme management services include:
- management of the translation of high level
specifications in business cases into detailed requirements
- programme control
- programming, planning and progress management
- cost, delivery, quality, whole life and
risk reviews performed at regular intervals to ensure
that solutions satisfy output requirements and deliver
the benefits required from the investment
- optimisation of resources across the suite
of projects through the management of priorities
at business unit and corporate level
At project level we provide the following services:
- brief development, user / performance requirements
- specification development
- project control
- scheduling, planning and progress management
- risk management
- contracts management
- cost planning and control
- implementation
- project review, audits and certification
Our skilled professionals combine the delivery of
these services to steer a determined course for the
successful delivery of the required business benefits.
“we do it
right, by doing the right things”
Kristal Oak has highly skilled programme and project
managers with a wide range of industry experience
in managing business investments for many major public
and private sector organisations within the UK and
world-wide. Our experience has shown us that the key
to successful project management is the early identification
of issues and addressing through a structured Project
Execution Plan (PEP), before they impact on time,
costs, resources or quality.
We develop and implement the most
cost effective methodology for managing programmes
and projects to satisfy our customer’s requirements
based on our proven management processes that incorporate
all the principles of Prince 2 methodology.
Obtaining ‘buy-in’ at
all levels is critical to success and a prime requisite
for the effective implementation of change programmes.
Therefore we build good working relationships with
our customers, their representatives, programme and
project team members, and all other key stakeholders.
At Kristal Oak, we believe that effective communication
is essential. By applying our approach to programme
and project management we ensure that all project
personnel understand:
- what is to be done and when
- by whom
- responsibilities
- the inputs, outputs and risks associated with
and interfaces between the key activities
- the degree of detail and accuracy of information
required at each stage in the process
- the milestones and stage gates in the process
- the authorisation process for approvals
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