Macrosolutions is going to develop your project’s complete plan in three weeks time. We are going to use a unique methodology of work called Accelerated Benefits ®.

Specific actions will be directly related to the planning products, which can be applied immediately on the projects that are managed and on the projects that have great impact on the results visibility and on the project management.

The Accelerated Benefits® methodology will become a competitive and unique advantage to your organization because it can be used both to structure projects being executed with no proper planning and for projects in crisis.

Key issues addressed

  1. Projects being executed with incomplete, inaccurate or no existing planning
  2. Sudden project manager or key team member exchange
  3. Project in crisis, without control or management
  4. Delays and budget overflow
  5. Threats that are identified only after they become problems
  6. Risk imminent perception with no control planning
  7. Constant improvisation increase
  8. Inaccurate and unreliable status reports
  9. Late and ineffective decision making

Scope of work

  • Current project status assessment
  • Implementation of the Accelerated Benefits® process
  • Team structuring that will compose the Task Force
  • Existing information collection
  • Accelerated Benefits® documents first version definition
  • Communication Plan definition and implementation
  • Contingency process implementation
  • Risk Triggers definition and their implementation within projects scope
  • Leaders Training and coaching
  • Assisted Operation

Fact sheet

Estimated duration of the consultancy work [?]
1 month for the Accelerated Benefits and 3 months for Assisted Operation
Work complexity [?]
High
Client's team (minimum required) [?]
1 Project Manager and 1 Planning Analyst
Client's team allocation x Macrosolutions team allocation [?]
5% Client's Team
95% Macrosolutions' Team (Accelerated Benefits)
/ 80% Client's Team
20% Macrosolutions' Team (Assisted Operation)
Project estimated number of visits [?]
4 visits
Maturity Level (minimum required) [?]
Low
Organizational level of coverage [?]
Corporate: ★★
Departmental: ★★★
Project: ★★★★★
Language(s) [?]
Portuguese, English, Spanish

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Standards
Areas
  • Supported standards and methodologies

    Project Management Institute (PMI)
    PMBOK Guide Yes
    PMI Practice Standard for Estimating Yes
    PMI Practice Standard for Earned Value Management
    PMI Practice Standard for Configuration Management Yes
    PMI Practice Standard for Risk Management Yes
    PMI Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structure Yes
    PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling Yes
    PMI Standard for Portfolio Management
    PMI Standard for Program Management
    PMI Project Manager Development Competency Framework
    Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®)
    UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC)
    PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) Yes
    MSP (Managing Successful Programmes)
    M_O_R (Management of Risks) Yes
    P3M3 (Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model)
    P3O (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices)
    MoP (Management of Portfolios)
    MoV (Management of Value)
    Scrum Alliance
    Scrum Methodology Yes
    International Project Management Association (IPMA)
    ICB® IPMA Competence Baseline
  • Areas: approach comprehensiveness

    Area Comprehensiveness Description
    Integration ★★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated.
    Scope ★★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
    Time ★★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure timely completion of the project.
    Cost Optional Includes the processes required to ensure that the project is completed within the approved budget.
    Quality ★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken.
    Human Resource ★★★★ Includes the processes required to make the most effective use of the people involved with the project.
    Communications ★★★★ Includes the processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information.
    Risk ★★★★ Systematic process of identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risks. It includes maximizing the probability and consequences of positive events and minimizing the probability and consequences of adverse events to project objectives.
    Procurement Optional Includes the processes required to acquire goods and services from outside the performing organization to attain project scope.
    EHS Optional Involves processes related to work safety, health and environment, including specific regulations.
    Strategic Planning Involves the processes which link projects with corporate strategy through the indicators of the Balanced Scorecard's goals.

Additional Information Top ↑

The Accelerated Benefits® is the first phase of any project management process implementation. After that we have the periodically update of the generated documents to support the work being executed. Finally, we have the third phase, the complementary processes, the processes that will facilitate and adjust the immediate benefits and critical processes.

  • Phase 1: Accelerated benefits
  • Phase 2: Documents update
  • Phase 3: PMO Implementation

During the Accelerated Benefits ® work,  the Macrosolutions’ team will focus on the planning documents’ structuring and definition, producing visible results in a short term period.

The main benefits are:

  1. Speed in the first results presentation
  2. First movement to formalize the projects management process
  3. Credibility and evidence gain for the process is being suitably used
  4. Executive sponsorship increase due to the first results presentation

The Accelerated Benefits ® allow the focus increase on the critical and vital components planning and they are strongly oriented towards tangible and clear deliveries.

"The executive always says that he has no time to plan. But the same executive always has money to redo the work.” - Ricardo Vargas

The Project Management Office (PMO) is a formal control structure that supports the projects and increases the maturity level of a specific project management, a specific area of the organization or even the organization as a whole. Its main objective is to enable the organization to develop their projects more efficiently and more effectively.

It is important to note that the Accelerated Benefits® does not produce definitive documents but early versions that must be consistently updated throughout the project.

In the selecting criteria for the Accelerated Benefits® documents definition, the parameters listed below were used in the flowing order of priority:

  1. Executive Visibility
  2. Data collection facility
  3. Knowledge area accuracy according to PMBOK
  4. Easy definition