Project Management & Business Analysis Services

Value Through Leadership

Dewpoint’s experienced project managers provide our customers with knowledgeable, senior leaders to manage complex project across a wide a wide range of industries in both public and private sectors.

Project Management Approach

While Dewpoint understands the ciritcal importance of the administrative role of project management, its Project and Program Management solutions are architected with an eye toward project leadership.  As a result of this strategic decision, Dewpoint has carefully developed a team of experts that can be efficiently and cost-effectively deployed to support projects of all sizes.

Dewpoint brings real-world experience managing enterprise or statewide projects from original concept through final implementation.  Its project managers are skilled at interfacing with all levels of project stakeholders, including executive management, functional management, end users and vendors.

Our team can work within the confines of a customer PMO or within Dewpoint’s own framework to ensure that project deliverables adhere to quality standards.
Dewpoint’s project mangers can assume overall responsibility for all aspects of your project including initiation, planning, execution, control and close.  This ownership extends to managing the financial aspects of the project against established budgets.

We are skilled at creating all startup and planning documents and managing the scope, risks, issues, deliverables and schedule of individual project tasks, from initiation to project close.

Staffing Options

From its established project management organization Dewpoint provides three levels of expertise:

• Senior Project Managers & Program Managers
  Senior level experts can lead and direct enterprise level high priority projects or programs, which often require considerable resources and high levels of functional integration and interaction with customer executives.  These individuals interact with executive level management regularly while presenting project status, issues and solutions using formal established reporting methods as required.
  
• Project Managers
  Project management experts lead and direct medium to large scale projects which also require considerable resources and high level of functional integration and interaction with customer executives.  These individuals interface with customer management  regularly, presenting project status, issues and solutions using formal established reporting methods.
  
• Project Coordinators & Project Schedulers
  Coordinators and Schedulers work under the general supervision of a more senior project manager and participate in a very material way with the support and direction of projects.  These individuals also interface with client management on a regular basis.  This role is often responsible for much of the administrative burden of project management and for maintaining the project schedule on large-scale enterprise projects.
  

Project Control Office

• Application Selection
  One of the most important initiatives that an organization undertakes is the selection and implementation of a new business application.  In many cases the business is dependent on selecting and implementing an application that can be tailored to meet any unique requirements of an organization, and is flexible and scalable to continue to meet the organizations needs moving forward. 
  
  The impact to the organization can be either positive or negative depending on the application that is selected.
  
  Because of this impact, Dewpoint recommends that our customers follow a disciplined process based in strong Project Management and Software Engineering methodologies prior to making any application selection.  It is critical to note that most vendors will try to sell an organization on their application, Dewpoint believes that it is important that an organization structure its process such that it buys the right application.
  
  In order to solve this problem, Dewpoint recommends that organizations form a Project Control Office that is wholly responsible for ownership of the application selection and implementation process.   
  
• Application Implementation
  
  An organization utilizing a Project Control Office (PCO) to oversee the implementation of an application can increase the odds of success and reduce expenses typically incurred due to project overruns in cost and time.  Dewpoint takes best practices and real world experience to manage implementation vendors, their processes and puts structure around the entire implementation process.
  

Project Status Reporting

One of the most critical aspects of project management is clear, concise, timely and accurate status reporting.  This allows all project stakeholders to be properly informed of project issues, constraints and overall project status.  The figure below provides an overview of the type of status report that Dewpoint creates for its project engagements.
This 4-Up Report is structured to allow project executives to be presented with an appropriate level of documentation to make informed decisions.