IT Project Management Consulting Services
IT project management consulting implies engaging third-party experts to plan and oversee IT projects to complete them faster and in line with business requirements. ScienceSoft offers project management consulting services to help you deliver IT initiatives of the highest quality.
Adopt a Sound PM Approach with ScienceSoft
We factor in your project status (whether the project is at the planning stage or under way) and the challenges you face to focus our consulting involvement on your pain points and guarantee that your return from our services is tangible. Our service scope includes:
Project assessment
- Analyzing project goals, required timeframes and targeted budget, workflows and communication.
- Conducting a feasibility study.
- Estimating resource demands and availability.
- Interviewing project participants.
- Assessing project risks and developing risk mitigation plans.
Project planning
- Roadmapping the project with the breakdown into work phases, tasks, and deliverables.
- Planning high-level solution architecture and functional scope.
- Scheduling the sequence of project implementation.
- Estimating project time and cost.
- Choosing a project management methodology (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
Project resource management
- Building a project staffing plan.
- Allocating resources to project tasks according to an employee’s skillset, planning multi-project resource allocation if needed.
- Staffing micro-teams to achieve project milestones.
- Elaborating on an optimal communication process scheme.
Project control
- Defining quantifiable KPIs for the entire project and for milestones to have project progress under control.
- Investigating project deviations from the timeline or budget and applying a contingency plan to adapt a project implementation plan to the changed context.
Deliverables You Get with Project Management Consulting
Supporting PM documentation
- Estimated project scope, risks and budgets.
- Description of a chosen PM methodology and project implementation approach.
- A project management plan.
- Detailed project timeline estimates and breakdown into work phases, deliverables, and activities.
- Optimal project schedule.
- Scheme and/or schedule for optimal resource allocation throughout the project.
PM instruments
- Project KPI system and KPI templates.
- Recommended project management software (we can customize, set it up on demand and provide initial user training).
- Requirements traceability matrix.
Established processes for
- Requirements formalization.
- Quality assurance (QA).
- Project communication, including project performance reporting.
- Continuous project performance assessment and improvement.
- Continuous integration and continuous delivery (our DevOps experts can design and implement the CI/CD pipeline).
- Release and deployment management.
- Proactive risk management.
- Vendor management, in case of multi-sourcing (incl. creation of performance standards for contractors).
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Success Stories of Our Clients
6 results for:
Automated Log Management and User Monitoring Software Product for IBM/Consul
IBM/Consul partnered with ScienceSoft to build its enterprise security audit solution. ScienceSoft’s agile approach and advice on project management and development process improvements helped the company cut the development time for each product module by 2–3 months.
Agile Project Management to Deliver Proprietary Plugins Despite Stakeholder and Team Misalignment
ScienceSoft’s business analysis and project management expertise helped a US software development company deliver custom plugins for its in-house developers. Despite the distributed team and varying stakeholder interests, the plugins were delivered in 3.5 months.
Outsourced Project Management for Telecom Billing Software Development
A national GSM-operator with more than 5 mln subscribers was undertaking a complex project – implementing a new billing system – that involved multiple stakeholders. Thanks to ScienceSoft project management expertise, the Client was able to reduce the testing cycle by 2-3 times.
Getting a DWH Development Project with 2 Subcontractors and 30 Stakeholders Back on Track
ScienceSoft provided project management consulting to reorganize an inefficient communication flow and optimize scope planning in a complex development project with multiple stakeholders for one of the world’s leading stock market regulators.
SRM Software and Project Management Consulting to Speed Up Development and Optimize Costs
ScienceSoft provided software and project management consulting for a US-based company offering supply chain management services and digital solutions for manufacturing. The Client got an opportunity to improve its SRM software development processes, ensure superior product quality, and optimize costs.
About ScienceSoft
Our project managers hold PMP, PSM I, PSPO I, ICP-APM, and other certifications verifying their experience in leading projects to successful outcomes.
An in-house PMO brings structure and consistency by accumulating company-wide best practices, lessons learned, documentation templates, and workflow schemes.
You can check our 150+ testimonials from clients to learn what cooperation experience we strive to create.
Our clients praise our proactivity, deep sectoral knowledge, attention to detail, and mature collaborative approach.
How Clients Perceive Collaboration with ScienceSoft
It’s a pleasure to work with experts who are knowledgeable, self-motivated and sincerely interested to do the best of their ability.
Harutyun Melikiyan
CEO
We appreciate the transparency of the project activities, which ScienceSoft’s team ensured by regular and thorough reporting, and effective communication with the stakeholders. We always stayed tuned on the progress and could anticipate and mitigate potential risks.
The outsourcing process with ScienceSoft was well-established and convenient due to complete process visibility, professional and structured communication, and regular progress reports.
I can see that they really think through the lens of their client, which is priceless in this domain. They've found answers to many undefined challenges and suggested dozens of impactful improvements for our IT environment.
Sam Gooby, Head of Platform Production at Leo Burnett
We worked with ScienceSoft for over four years. In terms of what they’ve invented, it’s absolutely fantastic. And the value of the project management side is very, very big.
What Makes Our Project Management Consulting Stand Out
Measurable value
We define target KPIs together with our clients and build our project management consulting services around these targets. These may be KPIs related to the business outcomes from PM approach improvement, software quality, or development speed and project costs.
End-to-end consulting support
If required, we carry out continuous consulting throughout the project, introducing gradual process improvements, monitoring and analyzing their success and offering process adjustments. We also provide end-to-end project implementation (or implementation management only, if needed) and can support you with lacking competencies.
Software development expertise
We also provide end-to-end project implementation (or implementation management only, if needed) and can support you with lacking competencies.
Choose Your Project Management Consulting Option
Project launch consulting
We advise how to organize the working process and further manage projects of various complexity to maximize the value.
Project recovery consulting
Our recovery team:
- Provides urgent help for projects that have started to go downhill.
- Helps adjust or set up and run new project processes.
