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Project Management

	Schedule and budget development, implementation and management
	Critical path assessment to develop project acceleration strategies
	Time-tested project management tools, customized for your business
	Project Management training
	Credible project plans to help gain financing
	Project risk assessment and management using metrics

Case Study:

Challenge: 

A process validation service provider was at risk to lose a contract of more than 30 projects with its biggest client because the most critical qualification project, was 3 months behind schedule.  Credibility of the project manager had eroded to the point that he had been demoted; but he remained the key technician on the project. The service provider needed a project manager to get the project back on track and restore credibility.

Solution:

	Brought project schedule up to date.  Used critical path assessment to find the schedule problem.  Refocused efforts on document production, which was the critical path item.
	Added good validation people to the critical path items, replacing non-performers.
	Reassured client with honesty about the past, and started producing solid weekly reports.
	Reassessed project progress to show that initial scheduling was unrealistic by four months because of under-estimated document review time, and that  technical assumptions made at the start of the project were incorrect.  Re-estimated project end date.

Result:

	Completed the initial qualification phase of the project on schedule.  Results showed the process was not qualifiable; it needed more development work.
	Client cancelled project to spend more time developing its process.  Timely completion allowed the client to save money on this premature qualification effort. The resources were able to be reassigned to other critical projects.

"Ellen jumped right in and took control of this complicated project, restoring our credibility with the client.  She handled the management problems left by her predecessor, bringing the project to resolution in an accelerated time frame.  This allowed us to continue billing more than a million dollars per month on the other 30 projects.  The result is that we're still with this client on 10 projects, with more planned, and we got the FDA warning letter lifted at the end of 2002."  - Director of Project Management.

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