Process Assessment and Development

• Process Assessment: Assess the state of your functional processes and their alignment with your business objectives and project system. Recommend corrective actions. Owners are encouraged first and always to quantitatively benchmark their system performance using a firm such as Independent Project Analysis, Inc (IPA). *no affiliation with Validation Estimating
• Planning for Process Improvement: Develop strategies and plan activities and resources
• Reengineering/Process Mapping Workshops: Implement planned process improvements.
• Procedures Development: Support owner in developing procedures in alignment with process.

Organization and Competency Development

• Competency/Capability Assessment: Assess the state of your functional organizations, the skills and knowledge of your staff, and organization alignment with business and project objectives, processes, methods and tools. Recommend corrective actions.
• Planning for Organization and Competency Improvement: Establish strategies and plan activities and resources.
• Model Development: Develop competency/capability development models and career paths.
• Training: Implement improvement actions through customized training and workshops.

Status, Readiness and Process Risk Reviews

• For work-in-progress, conduct investigations and workshops to determine if the process or contract requirements in place are adequate and being appropriately applied, assess practices being used, assess risks and performance gaps, and develop a path forward to success. Examples: review the status of project control planning prior to funds authorization, or review project control practices during execution.

Coaching

• Provide managers and discipline leads with support and advise as needed throughout their process development efforts.