Project and Program Management
Our team has a history of effective project management, grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the distinct challenges within the life sciences industry. We employ a number of essential strategies to achieve your desired results:
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Stakeholder engagement and communication
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Resource allocation and alignment
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Prioritization and Agile scheduling
Combined with our multi-domain expertise, we are uniquely suited to bridge gaps between teams as we deliver consultancy throughout a project’s life cycle.
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Needs Assessment
Whether you need a project managed from inception or later in its lifecycle, identifying the scope, gaps, and objectives is crucial to align our services with your goals.
We typically start by identifying and engaging with key stakeholders, gathering information, and establishing effective communication practices.
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Information gathering
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Preliminary stakeholder assessment
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Business objectives alignment
Using this framework develops a comprehensive understanding of our shared needs, expectations and concerns to ensure alignment between your project objectives and our methods.
This sets the stage for subsequent planning, prioritization, and general Project Portfolio Management (PPM).
Strategic Project Planning
Strategic project planning is crucial for aligning projects with strategic goals and ensuring efficient execution.
Using information gathered during needs assessment, we analyze how well the current project portfolio aligns with your organization’s strategic goals. Typically, we include the following key steps:
Each project needs a well-defined charter, while programs require comprehensive roadmaps to coordinate efforts and ensure alignment with broader objectives.
Resource allocation involves identifying and budgeting for personnel, technology, and capital resources, ensuring these align with strategic priorities.
These initial assessments identify potential risks that might impact on the success of your project or program to ensure they capeted and addressed early.
These steps ensure systematic planning, better communication, coordination, and oversight, maximizing success and alignment with your organization’s strategies.
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Quality Assurance and Risk Management
Robust Quality Assurance (QA) and risk management processes are vital to ensuring project objectives and implementations are met. Risk management proactively mitigates potential challenges, while QA ensures constraints are adhered to and quality metrics are met.
Your project objectives guide how we apply our QA and risk management framework, all of which depends on your project or program size, the number of stakeholders involved, and your goals or objectives.
Defining specific quality metrics that cover all aspects of project performance – such as deliverables, processes, and outcomes – forms part of the broader quality management plan, which outlines how the KPIs and success criteria are captured and monitored.
Adopting a framework to manage risk proactively mitigates the impact of internal and external challenges to your project’s success. It ensures risks are consistently identified, prioritized, monitored, and communicated throughout your project’s lifecycle.
Implimenting continuous monitoring practices using tools and techniques such as regular audits, project reviews, and performance metrics to assess adherence to quality standards and the effectiveness of risk management strategies.
Applying this framework, you can ensure your projects are completed on time and within budget whilst meeting or even exceeding quality expectations and effectively managing associated risks.
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder engagement and communication are crucial in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) for keeping all parties informed, involved, and aligned with project goals.
We start by identifying all stakeholders, including internal ones (team members, management) and external ones (customers, suppliers, regulatory bodies).
We analyze their needs, expectations, interests, and impact on the project, classifying them by influence and interest to tailor our engagement and communication strategies accordingly.
After the stakeholders are identified, we create a detailed communication plan that outlines what information will be communicated, when, how, and to whom.
This plan includes regular updates on project progress, changes, and milestones, taking into account the specific preferences of different stakeholder groups.
We establish a variety of feedback mechanisms such as surveys, suggestion boxes abd interactive sessions, to capture and address stakeholder responses.
This input allows teams to regularly review and adjust project plans and communication based on the feedback received.
By following these steps, we ensure that stakeholders are well-informed and actively engaged, fostering collaboration, enhancing decision-making, and improving overall project success and alignment with our clients’ organizational goals.
Questions? Answers.
Quick answers to questions you may have. If your question is not addressed here, please contact us.
This depends on the scope of the project, approval of the statement of work, and availability of our consultants. Generally, we can begin projects between two weeks and a month from your initial enquiry.
The principles of our pricing strategy are to be transparent and good value for money. As such we adopt a simple pricing model that incorporates:
for Fixed Price projects, a clear statements of tasks to be completed, work required per task and daily rates for each level of contributor to the project.
for Time Based assignments, a transparent pricing model based on level of consultant and duration and intensity of the commitment required
Please contact us for an indicative quote.
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