skills and expertise
Our project managers have the following skills and expertise:
- PMI/PMP Certified
- Agile, Scrum, Crystal, JAD, RAD, RUP, SDLC, Waterfall, Prince2, CMM, Six Sigma
- Project Management
- Program Management
- Development Management
- Business Process Analysis/Improvement
- Management Consulting
- Change Management
- Organizational Realignment
- Project Coordination
- Strategic Planning, Vendor Management
- Team Building, Staff Training
- MS Project, Visio, MS Office, Project Workbench, MS Sharepoint, Clarity
Project Management Practice
When deadlines are pressing and resources are tight, you may require highly experienced project management professionals that serve as an extension of your staff to help support and manage your project initiatives.
Our experts will help you:
- Avoid delays stemming from the recruiting and training of new employees.
- Bring in industry best practices and tailor them to your unique environment.
- Satisfy complex project requirements that must be managed by a highly trained team of professionals.
- Manage long-term initiatives across your enterprise.
- Achieve immediate productivity gains in the short-term, and increase long-term efficiency resulting in significant business impact.
Bringing the Capabilities You Need
Logisolve provides ongoing support to our clients by offering seasoned project management professionals that understand your business needs and the unique attributes of the industries you serve. We support complex project initiatives in industries such as financial services, pharmaceutical, IT, retail, and manufacturing to name just a few. Our consultants work on-site at your location with your team to ensure success on critical projects, and help off-set limited availability of resources within your organization.
Backed by Project Management Depth
Logisolve consultants have access to an established network of best practices, industry experts, knowledge repositories, and research consortiums. So you not only get top performers that can tap into the resources you need, you also get the peace of mind in knowing that we deliver the best possible overall service to your organization.
Experts Available
Project Control Specialists
Logisolve has a specialized pool of expert Project Controllers who average 15+ years of experience in project planning, estimating, scheduling, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) development, cost control, issue and risk mitigation control, and project reporting. Our professional Project Controllers track all project schedules, resource allocations, and costs; and provide earned value and other status reporting. This allows your project managers more time to communicate with executives and focus on scope management and project leadership.
Project Managers
Logisolve Project Managers typically have over 15 years of project management experience, overseeing a wide variety of projects across all industries and business functions. Most of these individuals are PMP® certified, and are well versed in project management and product development methodologies. They have access to all our industry best practice processes, templates, and models and are productive from day one.
Mentors
Logisolve Mentors are highly seasoned professionals with extensive project and program management experience. They are also well versed in project management methodologies, are PMP certified, and have the interpersonal and communication skills required to coach and mentor project managers. In many cases, our Mentors are brought on board by a PMO Director or functional Vice President to take on troubled programs and/or to mentor program and project managers to be more effective in their role. Mentors are trained to interact with your management executives and provide recommendations on ways to improve the project management environment.
Methodology Developers
Our Methodologists quickly bring Logisolve's proven project management methodology to clients desiring to apply industry best practices and "just the right amount" of process structure to their business. We can customize this methodology, or work with you to refine, or even simplify, your current methodology. Our Methodology Developers are well-versed in change management and organizational design to help you with the methodology implementation process including internal communications and training.
IT Project Managers
Over 50% of our project-staffing services support Information Technology (IT). Our IT project managers are experienced in managing technical projects, including software development, systems integration, and infrastructure deployment. Many have years of experience working with the "Big 5" and other large System Integrators, and are now focused on the science of IT program and project management.
Methods and Tools our PM's Use:
Critical Path Method
What it is and what mistakes to avoid. It's not just coming up with a chart and hoping other people can work to it. There are ways to use this method for more than just scheduling work. A CPM analysis presented at contract T&Cs can make a difference between record profit and record loss on a job.
PERT
What it is and how to use it effectively. Same situation as CPM. Yet, few project managers fully take advantage of PERT, except as a way of further refining their CPM analysis. Big mistake.
GANTT Charts
We have tips, tricks, and successful secrets to using these charts effectively. Gantt charts should do far more than hang on walls. You'd be amazed at the things truly seasoned project managers use them for. Can you think of three things? Four? If not, you are not at your maximum level of project management competency.