Adopting industry standard best practices is often consider a safe approach for most companies but unless these best practices are specifically tailored to the maturity and culture of the company the results are often less than satisfactory.  To make sure that the solution fits the problem EPM Solutions offers a phased approach to helping you meet your target of more consistent and reliable project performance.

EPM Solutions' team of project management experts begins the process by conducting a maturity assessment using proven tools and techniques, such as interviews, working paper evaluation, and surveys to establish your organization’s baseline capabilities. In general, the assessment provides a framework for measuring an organization's maturity level in each of the PMBOK^® Guide's nine knowledge areas.  It also takes into consideration such areas as management oversight, and professional development.

Once the assessment is complete, the results are then used to develop a clear, step-by-step path that charts the way to superior organizational performance and maturity. The improvement plan focuses on:

·   Defining the recommended actions to become a more mature project organization,

·   Identifying the scope, key deliverables, and measures for success for recommended improvement activities

·   Providing realistic milestones for short-term process improvement activities

·   Mapping out a framework to achieve a sustainable project management culture across your enterprise though change management.

Our team of skilled consultants specializes in getting the initial phase of your customized improvement plan initiatives up and running quickly.  From that point it’s simply a matter of prioritizing the areas of greatest importance and taking them in order. 

We can help you improve your project selection process by implementing a portfolio management process or improve your project management tracking and reporting by setting up a project repository.  Or if resource management is a top level issue for your company, we have experience in establishing a skills and competency program that will help you keep your staff aligned with your current and future project needs.

Regardless of your long term requirements, the first place to start is with a one week capability assessment that will delineate where you are now and what steps you need to take in the short term to increase the successful performance of your projects.