Services

Project management services

Project Spectrum SolutionsTM

Our quest to find the perfect solution to high-technology project management has been relentless over a 20 year period. Such a quest has no final destination; it is a continuing journey. So how do we help high-technology companies? Unlike any other project management model, we have developed a spectrum of flexible solutions, which can be tailored to your individual needs. Our products and services include:

  • Interim project or programme management – especially for strategically important projects and recovery projects
  • Consulting – development of bespoke project lifecycles, and product development systems
  • Training – a broad portfolio of high-technology project management courses
  • Mentoring – for project and programme managers
  • Educational products – from seminars to written and multimedia products
Our comprehensive range of solutions can be adapted to fit your immediate and ongoing needs. All solutions are carefully integrated with your specialist technical environment, your business management needs, and your external market and customer pressures. We possess extensive knowledge of high-technology product development as well as a strong background in business strategy and planning. We take into account the size of your organisation, your rate of growth, and your current familiarity with project management methodology.

What differentiates us primarily is that all are solutions have an applied nature rather than being in a pure form. Secondly, we endeavour to deliver solutions which are applicable to your development environment.

So whether you need to get new products delivered to market on time, or you would like to cut several years off your project management learning curve, we have the spectrum of services to help. Our intervention can be as little as two hours for a consultation on a specific project management issue, to nine months managing an intensive project or programme.

Interim Project or Programme Management

One of our core services is project management for various scenarios:

  • Project management of large and/or critical projects or programmes
  • Provision of programme management for a portfolio of projects
  • Recovery projects
  • Project acceleration
  • Time to market guarantees for strategic commitments
  • Co-project managing on complex or compressed timescale projects
  • Project planning and/or set-up
  • Special initiative and change-based projects
If you have a project, which is crucial to you, but whose risks or schedule are putting excessive pressure on your business, you can be confident that we can help relieve that pressure. We can handle complex product development as well as organisational change projects. Projects and programmes can be managed in either a part-time or full-time mode, on a short-term or longer-term interim basis.

Project Management Consulting

Our consultancy services will help you design an appropriate organisational structure and methodology for optimal project execution. Consultancy can often slash years off your learning curve. Services include:

  • Development of bespoke project management systems, i.e. lifecycle models
  • Project troubleshooting and recovery
  • Project and project environment health checks
  • Establishing a resource management system
  • Spreading the project-based culture throughout the organisation
  • Skills profiling and creating a technical skills management system
  • Establishing a Project Office to give corporate level overview and PM support
  • Establishing strong links between corporate strategy and Programme Management
  • Integrating marketing planning with the project management process
  • Establishment of a Project Management Methodology consistent with your situation

Project Management Training

Intensive short training courses include:

  • Project and Programme Management – The Big Picture (1-day strategic overview)
  • The Essence of Project Management Success (1-day)
  • Project Essentials for Engineering Teams (1-day)
  • Foundation Course in Project Management (2-day)
  • Software Project Management (3-day in half day modules)
  • Technical Aspects of Project Planning (3-day in half day modules)
  • Behavioural Aspects of Project Management – Soft Skills (1-day)
We also offer bespoke training according to your precise needs and requests.

** Course outlines available on request or find out more on  our Oxford Management Solutions  (www.oxfordltd.co.uk) website

Mentoring

The advantage of this service is that project execution becomes quicker and less troublesome. The project manager learns the appropriate principles, tools, and techniques on the job. The applied nature of the assistance gives the learning deeper meaning and has lasting value for the recipient. When the service covers a number of project managers within an organisation, key organisational improvement areas can be precisely identified.

Educational Products

We can deliver a wide range of on-site educational seminars to a group of your project managers, managers, or engineers and scientists. These seminars typically last for 60 minutes and the range of subjects includes:

  • The importance of Requirements Management
  • Goal-directed project management
  • The advantage of project lifecycle based systems
  • Rapid development
  • Managing project communications
  • Establishing new projects
  • Project closure and benefits management
  • Product and technology strategy
  • Using projects for strategic advantage
  • Managing risk on high-technology projects
  • Leaderships skills for projects
  • Managing customers and other stakeholders
  • Project Management Institute versus PRINCE2 – which do I use?
  • Achieving corporate strategy using projects
  • The project-based organisation
The first seminar is offered FREE of charge.