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Your Situation Demands A Specific Solution
You are not alone. And while no two organizations are alike, many organizations face similar information technology project management problems, issues and challenges.
The challenge is in taking generic, one-size-fits-all project management practices and adapting them to your unique needs and organization. Depending on your situation, Rhyming Planet will help you formulate and execute the right combination of project management techniques, tools, timing and teamwork to successfully move your projects ahead quickly and effectively.
Look at some the key questions below and see if you can identify your situation. Then contact Rhyming Planet. We can help you.
Coming Off A Project Failure?
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Hopefully you're not on the road to this kind of immortality. Truth is, a large number of IT projects fail rather than succeed. According to the latest Standish Group Chaos Report, the software project success rate is 24 percent overall, with numbers even lower for large projects. But failure can be turned to success. Some of the best lessons you can learn come from your failed projects.
Key questions to consider:
- Why did the project not work as planned?
- Where were the failure points within the project, the processes, and the people?
- What can you do to strengthen the probability for success for your next project?
- What assumptions did you make about your team's level of productivity?
Rhyming Planet offers matchless expertise to provide you insight into a project failure and a roadmap to prevent future failures. For example, we can provide organization reviews, risk assessments and audits as well as a wide range of project planning and risk management tools to enhance your ability to evaluate and prevent project failures.
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Initiating A New, Large Scale Project?
"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Recent studies and surveys show that almost 90% of IT projects are underestimated in size and complexity. As the size of project grows, so does risk which can lead to cost and schedule overruns, or even worse – project failure. As in the old adage goes, "what starts right, stays right." Having a structured process and approach to your project planning phase can greatly reduce the risk of a critical project going awry.
Key questions to consider:
- Does your project fit within the corporate strategic plan and direction? Do you have a sound understanding of the big picture?
- Have you broken your larger projects into manageable pieces to ensure focused and well-defined efforts?
- Are you using small workshops to promote team involvement across all stakeholders for your project?
- Have you defined and agreed upon project success criteria?
Rhyming Planet excels at helping organizations get their hands around the "big" project. With a wide array of solutions in key areas such as risk assessment, project planning, needs research and custom onsite training, Rhyming Planet offers end-to-end services to help you start, manage and complete complex, large scale projects.
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Having Difficulties With Your Current Project?
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
- Harold S. Geneen, former Chairman, International Telephone and Telegraph
If your current project is in trouble, it could be because you need to strengthen your methodology for defining your project. Or it may be because your team doesn't have the right accountability structure. Or it might be a communication problem. Or it… well you get the point. It could be a singular problem or a multitude of not-so-obvious issues. Regardless, when you're in trouble, you need a helping hand.
Key questions to consider:
- Have you identified and leveled the project drivers, constraints and degrees of freedom across functionality, resources, quality, cost and schedule?
- Do you have a communications plan as part of your current project? Is it being executed? Is it effective?
- Do you know the decision-making architecture for your project?
- Have you identified and prioritized the strategic and tactical risks within your project?
Knowing you're in trouble is 80% of the solution. Rhyming Planet can help you with the other 20%. With broad experience in project turnarounds, we can provide the helping hand you need to turn a potentially bad situation into a successful project now and in the future.
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Not Meeting Project Deadlines?
"To do great and important tasks, two things are necessary: a plan and not quite enough time."
- Anonymous
Time is the currency of today's digital economy. And time is a project manager's worst enemy. Your completed project may meet the functional requirements; it might even come in at or under budget. But if it's late, you may have cost your customer or company strategic market opportunities or efficiencies to beat to the competition.
Key questions to consider:
- What metrics are you using to track and measure project progress?
- What techniques and tools did you use for estimating and planning?
- What assumptions are built into the resulting project plan and estimates for resources, time and budget? Are they within your sphere of control?
- What activities and deliverable have you not planned for that cost both time and money? Will this trend continue as you move forward? Do you need to replan?
Time is money. Rhyming Planet can help you conserve and manage this vital resource so your projects not only come in on time, but also come in successfully in all aspects and all measures. We're experts at helping you consistently use the tools that will help you complete your projects on budget, on spec, on time.
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Need A Methodology That Fits Your Organization? Need To Teach People How To Use It?
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
Henry Kissinger
There are tons of project management strategies, tons of software tools, tons of "best practices." But there is only one organization like yours. Project management strategies must be designed and implemented within the context of your organization's unique culture, strategy and resources.
Key questions to consider:
- How well do project management processes fit within your strategic plan and work environment?
- Are people able to execute them effectively or do they simply add "administrivia" but no value?
- Do you plan time for process improvement relative to your existing project approach and methods?
- Have you made a focused attempt to improve your project management techniques and methodology within the organization?
- Have you trained and empowered your people?
Your organization's unique qualities combined with sound project management principles can be the linchpin of future project success. Rhyming Planet can design and deploy a project management strategy and process that will create an ongoing culture of success for your organization.
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