Executive Project Assessment and Project Turnaround Experts

We provide one-time or ongoing assessment of your projects to ensure early warning and successful risk mitigation. If your project is already in trouble we can help you regain control. Our consultants can provide objective, unbiased analysis of your project; evaluate your process, resource allocation, team dynamics, contractual obligations, interdependencies and identify problem areas. If project recovery is feasible we will consult you on options for a recovery and establish the proper environment including proven processes and tools.

Projects generally run into trouble for the following reasons:

• Insufficient commitment from project sponsors.
• Unclear requirements/scope.
• Inexperienced team members.
• Poor planning.
• Lack of formal project management processes.
• Cultural issues.
• Unclear roles of team members including that of the project manager.
• Inadequate communication

Rescuing a project is sometimes like starting a new one – you have to assess the extent of the damage, review all aspects of the project, produce a new project plan and get it approved and then bring the project to completion using tight control and monitoring techniques.

You should consider outsourcing your project assessment and project turnaround activities to Rivien Media if you answered YES to any one or more of the following questions:

• Is your project in serious trouble having overrun its budget, and deliveries are far behind schedule?
• Has the previous project manager been fired, is team morale low, are sponsors extremely upset, and is senior management looking for immediate options?
• Were you brought in to take over the project and turn it around?

Project Assessments

Most useful when a project is over budget and behind schedule, and you need a realistic forecast of completion and alternatives. Rivien Media consultants reconstruct the quantitative and qualitative history of the project. We forecast completion based on the desired functionality and demonstrated productivity; evaluate alternatives; present options to decision-makers; and develop a new project plan based on the best alternative.

Monthly Project Health Check Assessments

Most useful when you want Rivien Media to monitor the performance of a contractor or provide oversight on an internally managed project. We work with you to create a custom metrics dash board, collect project performance data each month, and prepare a "red-amber-green" risk assessment report. This service identifies problems early so that appropriate action can be taken.

Project Turnaround

About 75 percent of all IT projects are delivered significantly late or canceled, and the risk of problems grows as a project's size increases. Most projects are too critical to be canceled. Rivien Media experts can help rescue these projects using techniques accumulated through decades of experience.

Credentials

Our consultants have extensive experience performing project assessments and running turnaround projects at the executive level, and are typically former project directors and senior project managers specializing in successful project assessment and project turnaround activities. Some of our past clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Thomson Publishing, Verizon, and CBS Evening News.

Contact us today for all your Project Management needs.

If you would like to learn more about our project assessment and project turnaround services, please call 715-803-4550, or fill out a Custom Quote Request Form, or email us  to see how we can help you with your project management requirements.