Unique Company, Unique Skills
Project Control Group is a niche consulting firm specializing in project implementation strategy, planning, and controls for complex projects. We provide management-oriented solutions designed to ensure success and mitigate risk.► Helping Clients Accomplish Complex Goals
► Integrated Control
► Objective Professionals
► More than Project Management
► Risk Management and Mitigation
As your trusted advisor and independent implementation partner, we take an unbiased approach to planning the many diverse activities of your project. We equip your management team with the
necessary information and tools to make informed decisions throughout the life of the project, together with option strategies when opportunities or threats arise.
The PCGI Engagement
While every project is unique, the Project Control Group approach considers the following:
> What are you trying to accomplish?
Understanding the fundamental goals behind the project is paramount to measuring the project’s ultimate success. Project Control will work with your senior management team to define your business objectives, and then establish an evaluation framework, as the benchmark by which the entire project will be measured.
Understanding the fundamental goals behind the project is paramount to measuring the project’s ultimate success. Project Control will work with your senior management team to define your business objectives, and then establish an evaluation framework, as the benchmark by which the entire project will be measured.
> Who
makes the decisions?
Determining the decision-making structure is crucial to ensuring that approvals and issue resolution are achieved without delays. Project Control clarifies and documents the authority of all levels of decision makers, from the Board of Directors and Senior Management, to those responsible for Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Contractors, and Vendors.
Determining the decision-making structure is crucial to ensuring that approvals and issue resolution are achieved without delays. Project Control clarifies and documents the authority of all levels of decision makers, from the Board of Directors and Senior Management, to those responsible for Human Resources, Operations, Finance, Contractors, and Vendors.
> Who
else is involved?
With any project, there will be external stakeholders, such as urban planners, city officials, and community groups who have direct influence on the project’s implementation. By identifying these stakeholders early, we ensure that they are consulted as part of the planning process. This ensures that frustration and costly delays are avoided.
With any project, there will be external stakeholders, such as urban planners, city officials, and community groups who have direct influence on the project’s implementation. By identifying these stakeholders early, we ensure that they are consulted as part of the planning process. This ensures that frustration and costly delays are avoided.
> What
needs to happen?
Working with the project team, we ensure all of the facility and operational deliverables are identified. From this, we create a project scope definition that clearly articulates these deliverables. We then work with the team to identify all the tasks to be undertaken, where they intersect, and where they might have influence or dependencies on one another. Finally, we integrate these tasks into a single comprehensive plan that considers the entire implementation strategy.
Working with the project team, we ensure all of the facility and operational deliverables are identified. From this, we create a project scope definition that clearly articulates these deliverables. We then work with the team to identify all the tasks to be undertaken, where they intersect, and where they might have influence or dependencies on one another. Finally, we integrate these tasks into a single comprehensive plan that considers the entire implementation strategy.
> When
is reasonable?
Too many projects establish deadlines before the scope is fully appreciated or understood. As independent experts, we examine what needs to be done, and identify who needs to do it. We then provide you and your stakeholders with a timeline for implementation that is reasonable and unbiased.
Too many projects establish deadlines before the scope is fully appreciated or understood. As independent experts, we examine what needs to be done, and identify who needs to do it. We then provide you and your stakeholders with a timeline for implementation that is reasonable and unbiased.
> What
are the risks?
A timeline and budget will be based on assumptions. Some of these we can control (i.e. size and scope of project), some we can’t (approval of government funding.). By identifying these assumptions, we can build scenarios to mitigate the inherent risks that these assumptions present.
A timeline and budget will be based on assumptions. Some of these we can control (i.e. size and scope of project), some we can’t (approval of government funding.). By identifying these assumptions, we can build scenarios to mitigate the inherent risks that these assumptions present.