Project & Portfolio Management.

When Maturity Matters- Partner with Ensynch for Your Business' Project and Portfiolio Management Needs.

Ensynch's Center of Excellence (COE) solutions support successful, efficient delivery of projects. Armed with a background in large-scale, complex, and aggressive projects, Ensynch brings advanced project and portfolio management skills, tools, and techniques to meet your business needs.

Ensynch's solutions provide an integrated framework of business consulting services based on industry standards such as PMI® (PMP®, OPM3®), OGC® (PRINCE2®, P3M3®), and others. Our blended approach governs centrally controlled processes, best practices, and quality management for adaptation to each of our consulting engagements, providing an additional level of control that drives more consistent project results and increased value for our customers.

There are many reasons that business leaders turn to consultants to provide support. The project challenges that many organizations face include: project prioritization, sub-par performance, the potential for lost credibility, lack of experience with a particular project type, and a lack of internal expertise. But, the primary challenge of Project and Portfolio Management is to achieve project goals and objectives while honoring the three constraints of time, cost, and scope.

Ensynch's Center of Excellence for Project and Portfolio Management is uniquely set up to handle your business needs. Our team of cross-industry professionals has the experience and globally-recognized training and certifications to maximize your success. Partner with Ensynch for your business needs—because Maturity Matters.

Ensynch's Center of Excellence Services Include:

Portfolio Management Services Recovery & Crisis Management Project Health Checks Project Quality Audits Project Mentoring Project Planning & Controls Training Courses

Project Management Office Services Maturity Assessments Development Road Map Maturity Deployment Optimization Strategic PMO

Program Management Services Project Governance Project Alignment Tactical / Strategic Bridge

Project Management Services Business Analysis/ Requirements Initiate/Planning Schedule/Budget Risk Management Process Optimization Execution/Control

Project Management Support Services Recovery & Crisis Management Project Health Checks Project Quality Audits Project Mentoring Project Planning & Controls Training Courses

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Project Portfolio Management Solutions from Ensynch

Ensynch’s Portfolio Management solutions help you optimize budget and align selected investments with business strategy, as well as objectively prioritize business strategy and evaluate competing investments.

Portfolio Management- What’s in it for you?

Optimize budget and align selected investments with business strategy.
Run optimization what-if scenarios to identify tradeoffs and select the optimal portfolio under varying budgetary and business constraints that best aligns with your organization’s business strategy.

Objectively prioritize business strategy.
Employ proven techniques to define and prioritize your organization’s business strategy for the upcoming planning period.

Effectively prioritize and evaluate competing investments.
Use best practice techniques to automatically derive prioritization scores - such as strategic value, financial value, and risk - and develop investment maps to effectively evaluate the competing investments from multiple dimensions.

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Why Use Project Management?

Projects, by their very nature, are inherently at risk: Risk of overrunning time, risk of overrunning cost and/or failure to deliver a successful outcome. These failures are consistently caused by one or more of the reasons outlined below. Best practices in project management help reduce and manage these risks. Effective project management establishes accountability and ensures responsibilities of individuals are clearly defined.

Top Reasons for Project Failure:	Top Reasons for Project Success
Poorly Skilled Personnel Lack of Planning Incomplete/Inaccurate Requirements Unrealistic Time Scales Lack of User Involvement Unrealistic Expectations Lack of Executive Support Changing Requirements Scopen Creep No Change Control Process	User Involvement Executive Management Support Clear Statement of Requirements Proper Planning Realistic Expectations Smaller Project Milestones Competent Personnel Ownership Clear Vision and Objectives Hard Working, Focused Staff

Successful Projects – The Primary Business Benefit of Effective Project Management
A project delivered to scope, on time, and on budget, that achieves its objectives and meets business requirements can be declared a success; a success for the project team, a success for management, and ultimately, a success for the business.  Research overwhelming demonstrates that effective business analysis and project management practices are an essential part of project success.

Project Risk Identification and Management
Risk identification, management, and mitigation are skills born from experience. Failure to identify and manage risk will cause a project to fail - in part or in total.  Ultimately, reducing project risk helps ensure business requirements are met and project benefits are realized.

Competitive Advantage
In today's competitive market, the business requires quick solutions with minimum cost, without compromising quality. Effective project management yields efficient projects that reduce cycle time allowing the business to realize business benefits more rapidly.

Cost savings
A primary role of project management is to ensure that a project does not exceed its budget. Competent project management will manage and avert excessive costs by ensuring all expenditures are approved through proper deliberation. Additionally, reduced cycle time represents overall cost savings.

Cost containment through planning: Because changes to project plans are much more expensive than accuracy in the initial planning phase, expertise in project planning can help deliver significant cost savings to projects. 

Business-Centricity
Business analysis and project planning activities enable thorough understanding of business requirements. Project management best practices will apply focus on project stakeholders throughout the project ensuring that their requirements are being met.

Increased Quality of Deliverables
Project management best practices include quality control processes to ensure that project deliverables meet or exceed their requirements, which ultimately yield benefits to the business.

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Why Ensynch for Project and Portfolio Management?

Ensynch recognizes that there is no such thing as a “one size fits all” for project and portfolio management solutions. We work with our clients to understand strategies and to identify what measures are needed to successfully execute goals. The Ensynch Difference in project and portfolio management is best reflected by the following: 

Maturity and Experience - Ensynch has been providing project and portfolio management services as part of our IT consulting solutions for many years, which enabled us to build a mature practice around offering business focused project and portfolio management solutions whether the initiative is technology focused or not. 

A Unique Blend of Methodologies Catered to Your Business Needs- We know that a methodology is not one-size fits all. That is why we have blended industry leading methodologies, including PMI® and Prince2, to develop a methodology that works for your unique projects. Ensynch is able to beat the odds for success of projects through our use of formal methodology and proven best practices in our project management engagements.  Industry-recognized best practices in process, procedure and methodology are at the core of our capabilities. 

Accordingly, our Center of Excellence professionals hold credentials, such as:

• Program Management Professional (PgMP®)
• Project Management Professional (PMPSM)
• Prince2 Foundation / Practitioner
• ITIL® / ITIL® V3 Foundation / Practitioner
• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®)

 

Key Strategic Resources Assigned Judiciously to Each Client Engagement
Ensynch’s experts have the experience to adapt best practices to the individual characteristics of each client’s organization. Our resources are trained to specific business and technology areas to ensure consistency in delivery.

Managed Microsoft Partner- We have deep experience in using industry leading tools like SharePoint, Microsoft Project Server, and Microsoft Project Professional. In fact, Ensynch has multiple Gold and Silver Microsoft Solution Competencies across the complete information technology stack.
 
Because Ensynch is in the business of Project Management, we’re able to beat industry statistics for delivering successful project-outcomes by significant margins:

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	Chaos Report Statistics	Ensynch Statistics
Project Completed to Satisfaction	32%	88.37%
Project Met Requirements	67%	81.40%
Project Over Budget	54%	11.63%
Project Over Schedule	79%	23.26%

The Standish Group International, Inc. – 2009

Chaos Report A best practice is an optimal way currently recognized by industry to achieve a stated goal or objective.” (OPM3® Overview, PMI®)

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Microsoft Project Server 2010 Accelerator Solutions from Ensynch

Effective project and portfolio management solutions need to provide organizations of different sizes and maturity levels with the right tools to ensure teams can successfully collaborate to deliver projects on-time and realize the anticipated return on investment.

Microsoft Project 2010 offers flexibility and choice by providing tailored work management solutions for individuals, teams and the enterprise.

Organizations have varying project and portfolio management requirements, for example, a company centralized around marketing and design may not require the same precision as a customer service call center. Microsoft Project Server 2010 provides a flexible approach to guarantee that organizations have the ability to access the right tools to meet ever-expanding and diverse business requirements.

Ensynch has two Project Server 2010 solutions options to meet your business needs:

 

1.  Quick Start Implementation- Provides a hardware and software health check, the installation of Project Server 2010, basic configuration based on best practices and basic knowledge transfer.
   
   
2. Strategic Implementation- Provides everything that the Quick Start offers, plus business process analysis, project management process analysis, the development of best practices from Ensynch’s best practices and your business requirements, plus customization of Project Server 2010 setup to meet your organizational requirements.

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About Microsoft Project Server 2010
Project Server 2010 provides productivity tools to effectively manage all work throughout it’s life cycle, and ensure alignment with the your organization’s strategy.

Capabilities of Microsoft Project Server 2010
• Built on SharePoint 2010 platform, providing collaboration capabilities and enhanced reporting services.
• Unified project and portfolio panagement (PPM)
• Project initiation and business case development
• Portfolio selection
• Business strategy prioritization
• Portfolio prioritization and optimization
• Capacity planning
• Web-based project editing
• Fluent user interface
• Time reporting enhancements
• Microsoft Exchange Server integration
• Enhanced reporting and business intelligence
• Simplified administration

Project Management Associated Software Products and Methodologies

Ensynch has a proven track record of using Microsoft products to create effective solutions. Ensynch's Project Management Associated Products and Methodologies, including, but not limited to, the following software products.

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