Lucy Sheehan
Fitbit
Project management includes oversight of several key aspects
– communications, budget, functionality, integration, timescales, data & training.
All of these can be extremely demanding in terms of time, knowledge, & skill.
We often see businesses, particularly smaller ones, appoint one of their regular staff members to manage their software implementation project. However, in almost every case this person becomes the constraining factor due to the demands of continuing to fulfil their original responsibilities along with a lack of specific experience in project and change management.
Suppliers on the other hand are likely to appoint multiple skilled and experienced resources to any implementation project and these can run rings around a client who is short of time and is unfamiliar with the ins and outs of software projects. In our experience, this leads to budgetary overruns, functional deficiencies, interpersonal conflicts and withdrawl of user buy-in, a critical success factor that we have discussed here.
Where a dedicated and experienced project manager is in place on your team, the likelihood and degree of success increases enormously, in tandem with budgetary conformance.
Provanta provide client-side project management resource to businesses that do not have a suitable resource in-house, so that your team can get on with its regular roles and responsibilities while you can sleep at night knowing that the project is being managed diligently.
We can work on a full-time or fractional (part-time) basis depending on the size and complexity of the project, and the level of effort we input can vary through the project lifecycle.
Using our own experience of running bespoke and off-the-shelf software companies, we ensure that the parameters of your project are adhered to and progress continues to plan.
