Our delivery management services help IT organizations deliver on a global basis with particular focus on requirements management, risk management, vendor management, project deployment, data migration, and system performance. We provide the following services:
Project Management
Program Management
An effective program management function can be a powerful tool for an executive to efficiently and consistently manage multiple concurrent initiatives within the organization significantly increasing the chances of these initiatives to deliver on the promised return on IT investments. The purpose of program management function, often misunderstood, is not to create a center of control but its purpose is to create a center of empowerment for each initiative. A well run program management office or function can provide numerous advantages and improving the overall competitiveness of the department(s) depending up on the scope of program management office. Some of the key functions of program management are:
- Prioritization of the initiatives within the group
- Alignment of available budget with the prioritized initiatives
- Creating an environment of skate-holder collaboration
- Mobilizing executive and stake-holders support on as need basis
- Creation of an effective communication plan for the group
- Creation of consistent project management standards for the organization
- Creation of consistent reporting and monitoring of progress of all initiatives
- Consistent risk mitigation guidelines for all initiatives
- Ensuring that all initiatives are adhering organization quality control methods and processes
- Drawing executive attention to key issues and challenges
- Creating a process driven organization
- Vendor relationship management
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These are some of the representative set of functions a program management office can do. Many organizations suffer from the absence of it or lack of its effectiveness. We, at FNSTAR, can help you set-up a program management office if you do not have one or we can work with you to make it more effective management tool for you if you already have one. Our program management experience and skills are world-class and our associates are best in the industry. Send us an email at info@fnstar.com to talk to us- we can help you.
Project Management
It is a given fact that a good project manager is must for success of an initiative. But today's project management has become much more challenging. It requires a project manager to not only manage complexities and varieties of technologies and systems, vendors, and clients, but, it also, often, requires them to integrate and collaborate with geographically distributed resources spanning, at times, multiple time-zones, cultures, and varying languages proficiencies. He also has to constantly manage expectations of management to see the project finishing on time, on budget, and with good quality. A successful project manager must be able to juggle all these competing priorities to make an initiative successful.
Another important distinction that project management is not only about creating a project schedule and publishing status reports. Most often project management get confused with project administration on one extreme or with client relationship management at the other extreme. Most of the IT projects go through the different phases including Requirement/Architecture, design/development, integration and deployment. Skills that are needed to successfully manage the project through this life cycle can vary significantly.
We, at FNSTAR, recognize these project management challenges. We have hands-on experience of managing projects with these types of variables. We also recognize value of strong leadership and good technical know-how to able to lead today's, highly knowledge workers. If you want a project manager who have been successful in these circumstances, send us an email at info@fnstar.com to talk to us- we can help you.
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