Project Management
Every organization is unique, the discipline of project management is universal.
- Initiation – During this phase, we will help you develop your project charter and identify your project stakeholders.
- Planning – The planning phase involves all the various aspects of developing an IT project management plan. It includes numerous tasks that range from defining and managing the project’s scope to identifying potential risks, estimating costs, and even determining your human resource needs, among others.
- Execution – During the execution phase, we direct and manage all the project work, including supervising quality control, selecting and developing teams for your IT projects, and managing all your stakeholder expectations.
- Monitoring and Controlling – With the project underway, the next phase concerns controlling the project’s execution and making adjustments as necessary. It involves managing scope, costs, quality, procurement, communication, and more.
- Closing – When the project comes to an end, we work to close all the various phases and project procurements to keep things as smooth and efficient as possible.
Global projects pose their unique challenges, not just because of distance and time zone differences but also because of the complexity of managing the many nuances in different regions worldwide. Learning how they approach various changes, understanding their cultural sensitivities, and discovering their unspoken practices and limitations is essential for building and fostering a team environment across regions, and it requires flexibility, discretion, adaptability, and patience.
What sets good project managers apart from the rest?
It’s how they use their experience and expertise to deliver a better project management experience. Standards can help you develop your best practices, but they don’t provide the lessons learned from real-life experiences, such as meeting the needs of more than a thousand people during the first few days, tossing a lifeline to a project in distress, or even managing difficult conversations about sunk costs or material breach of contract. These things become especially problematic when paired with a need to recalibrate timelines, resources, and vendors due to application development delays or leadership changes.
At SmartGig IT, we combine our communication and change management strength with our extensive experience to deliver better project outcomes. Companies of all sizes have relied on Smart Gig IT to achieve their project objectives. Regardless of your project’s complexity, our goal is to help your company identify, execute, and close high-impact, value-added initiatives that improve your efficiency, productivity, and visibility.
SmartTip: Companies often forget to go through much-needed project readiness checks before vendor selection and project kick-off. Does your project have a business sponsor? Can you define your critical business processes?
Need help with a project?
Let’s start with a conversation. Schedule a time that is right for you here (this will lead to an online scheduling app), and we will take care of the rest.
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