Consulting and Facilitation for High Impact Project Planning and Review

Responding to the rapidly changing marketplace, more and more productive work occurs in a project environment. Too often employees — both professional staff and front-line providers — rush from project to project without evaluating the effectiveness of their work processes or their working relationships. Smart organizations take the time to effectively align project communities and to acquire and institutionalize organizational learning about project processes and outcomes.

Our consultants use the following proven tools, techniques and processes to advise you in planning, initiating, transitioning and continuously improving your projects:

A solid project charter is the foundation of a successful project. It specifies the project mission, boundaries, resources and other critical agreements, as well as ensuring team focus, alignment and effectiveness. We facilitate the development of initial project charters and assist with revisions as the project continues and evolves.

Our consultants rank among the top five most recognized, experienced and effective retrospective facilitators currently facilitating project review sessions. Our well-designed, well-facilitated retrospectives not only identify lessons learned, best practices and desired patterns of performance, but also include the next step into institutionalizing organizational learning and implementing action plans.

We bring a systematic approach to continuous process improvement. Using the appropriate tools from re-engineering, STS, benchmarking, theory of constraints, lean principles, and other approaches, we craft and implement a plan for elevating project performance and meeting customer requirements profitably.

Regular project reviews give project sponsors the information they need to determine whether the project continues to further the business case, and whether it should continue, adapt to new conditions or terminate. We assist our clients in evaluating the risks and benefits associated with continuing their projects, as well as advise on and facilitate the creation of risk mitigation plans.