This document provides an executive overview of project management capability. It discusses how project management provides a foundation for managing expectations by defining requirements, planning to achieve outcomes, conforming to what is acceptable, and driving efficiency. It also explains how applying project management through "adaptive rigor" enables successful outcomes such as avoiding delays and overruns, improving productivity, making proactive decisions, and focusing on people, performance, and process. Finally, it outlines the typical project phases of initiation, planning, implementation and control, and closure that Computer Solutions uses to plan and execute projects according to plan.

1. Project Management Capability –
Executive Overview
Sam Casas, PMP
Senior Project Manager

2. Project Management provides a foundation for managing and sharing expectations.
Manage expectations to:
• Define what is required.
• Plan for achieving the desired outcomes.
• Conform with what is acceptable.
• Drive efficiency; avoid re-work.
• Communicate status.
• Manage impediments to success; escalate as needed.
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3. Applying Project Management through “adaptive rigor” enables successful outcomes.
• Avoid costly delays and overruns.
• Improve productivity.
• Efficient use of critical resources.
• Proactive, fact-based decision making.
• Clear and concise project communications.
• Change issues addressed throughout the project life cycle.
• Creation of a continuous improvement environment.
• Focus on people, performance and process.
• Emphasis on quality.
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4. Computer Solutions drives positive results by planning and executing to plan.
– Project Phases (and selected activities) –
Initiation Planning Implementation & Control Closure
• Confirm business • Finalize project • Perform project work • Secure completion sign-off
goals & objectives strategy & approach • Track project effort and expenses • Conduct lessons learned
• Establish project • Develop detailed • Progress decision points and action items • Complete customer
requirements schedule: satisfaction survey
• Secure deliverable customer approvals
• Validate project • Tasks • Perform project
• Publish status reports
scope and budget • Deliverables recognitions
• Identify and manage project risks
• Recruit team/SMEs • Owners • Redeploy team resources
• Escalate risks, issues or decision
• Develop initial • Timelines requirements as needed
project strategy
• Establish project • Manage changes to budget, scope or
• Establish roles & guidelines: timelines
responsibilities
• Meetings
• Status reporting
• Issue Mgmt
• Risk Mgmt
• Escalation path
• Change Control
• Communications
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5. High-level project timelines are developed using experience-based assumptions.
Month 0 Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4
Steady
Initiation Planning Implementation & Control Closure
State
Submit CR
Data Network Augmentation
Infrastructure Readiness
Proposal Site & Staff Preparation
Refine
Training
CR Resource Selection / Ramp Up
Signed
Assign
Deliver Training
PM
Ramp-Up
Agree to
Proceed
Services Phased Migration
Steady State
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6. Tactical project tasks, assignments, deliverables, dependencies, checkpoints, interim sign-
offs, etc. are developed to perform the work as planned as well as to track progress.
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7. Project reporting communicates progress, issues, risks and financials on a routine basis.
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8. Project management practices are aligned with the Project Management Institute (PMI®)
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9. Questions?
Sam Casas, PMP
Senior Project Manager
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