Project Consulting Assignments

Project Consulting Assignments help you understand and optimise in real-time the performance of individual software projects and IT project activities.

Project Consulting Assignments run for the same duration as the software or IT project they are supporting.

Throughout Monetical guides project owners to execute a number of planned and unplanned performance audits that focus on improving the performance of key activities in real-time.

Planned performance audits

Planned audits establish the strengths and weaknesses of the current project’s resources, processes, applications against a series of best practices from published works and industry trends.

• REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS: Ensure a common vision of the users’ primary requirements.
• RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Determines the make-up and suitability of resources to each project.
• ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT: Determines whether the project methodologies, e.g. software process, go/kill process.
• PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT: Determines whether project meetings meet the objectives of participants and best practices.
• STAKEHOLDER CONCURRENCE: Measures contribution levels to establish continuity of project specifications.
• CODE CONSTRUCTION: Assesses the project design and implementation of core software engineering activities.
• TESTING STRATEGY: Evaluates the characteristics of the testing strategy against best practices.
• USER ACCEPTANCE TESTING: Assess the suitability and quality of the planned user domain testing.
• RELEASE & SUPPORT READINESS: Measures the readiness of the planned support systems, processes and resources.

Guiding the project owners through the following predefined workflow for each topic delivers performance improvement at every key stage of the project.

• INITIATE: Create and manage everything via your internet browser.
• ELABORATE: Notifications are circulated to all participants via email.
• CAPTURE: A series of questionnairs capture the participants input.
• ANALYSE: All participants data is analysed against best practices.
• DIAGNOSE: Root cause analysis is performed where appropriate.
• PLAN: A corrective measures database helps identifyand prioritise actions
• OPTIMISE: Maintain an an optimum level of performance by monitoring prgress of actions.
• REPEAT: Repeat the audit every 6 months to maintain an optimum level of performance

Unplanned performance audits

The ability to rapidly blend current project data with current project characteristics and historical performance results helps project owners accurately measure the best course of action.

• RESOURCES: Availability of additional skills.
• SCOPE: Opportunity to make further scope changes.
• BUDGET: Determine the influence of increased expense on opportunity.
• ACTIVITIES: Increasing the frequency of project activities, e.g. project meetings.
• TECHNOLOGIES: Benefits of introducing additional technology to support an activity.
• PROCESSES: Possibility of streamlining an existing commercial or operational process.

Workflow

• CHANGE RECORD: Capture variation impact to schedule, scope and budgets.
• ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS: on-demand tool enables rapid identification of the root cause.
• SCENARIO: Develop a number of performance improvement scenarios.
• COMPARE & CHOSE: Determine which scenario is better suited for short, medium and long term needs.
• APPROVE: Solicit managerial approval for the chosen scenario.
• CORRECTIVE MEASURES: Allocate resources to address underlying root cause.