Project Management – From Conception To Completion
Effective digital transformation initiatives hinge on robust Project Management. It is critical in driving the expected results and outcomes. Overarching and comprehensive project management brings together and integrates all input comonents of a project across people, processes and culture.
Sapience project management is designed to provide rigourous oversight, diligent stakeholder reporting and vigilant surveillance across the following activities:
- Project conception and strong business case validation
- Governance and strategic alignment with executive stakeholders
- Organizational change readiness and risk profile metrics
- Delivery team management, resourcing and role definition
- Data extraction, cleansing, enhancement and migration
- Business process design
- RICEFW management (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions, Forms, and Workflows)
- Iterative unit testing, continuous improvement and key user training
- Pre go live evaluation, go live strategy, hypercare
- Project cost control and approval validation
- RACI matrix management
- Project risk log management
This is why project management is a core Sapience Advisory discipline. It is what we do with an uncompromising commitment to excellence to ensure sucessful project outcomes.
One of the highly recurring points of failure in a project is to assign project management to an existing internal member of the team. This individual may already be highly effective in the current role as a CFO or a CIO. The difficulty with this direction is that it can hinder and weaken a project from the beginning.
This is because the existing role of the assigned internal resource is rarely sufficiently tempoarily backfilled. Again, even though they maybe an effective contributor to the business, the required disciplines and wide ranging specialist skills required in an IT digital transformation project manager may not be present in their current competencies. While they will certainly make a valid contribution with a seat at the project stakeholders and governance table, the appointment of an external, industry experienced and independent resource will derisk any project.
