At the heart of any successful project delivered on time and within the allocated budget is an effective project management team, well-established project planning, and customized control processes and practices. More projects have gone astray because of a lack of proper planning than for any other reason; such lack of planning results in delays and increased costs. Meeting complex scheduling requirements of large-scale projects is necessary to ensure effective project delivery, on-time installation(s) and problem-free commissioning—as well as on-time contract payments.
TSI’s competent project management team, project and program-management best practices, and effective systems ensures that we plan and control all aspects of a complex project from start to finish—from project planning to delivery to post-delivery audit. Our team enacts a critical path theory and optimization methods while overseeing others' monitoring techniques; we maintain knowledge also of tools and practices necessary to exercise these strategies and tactics in the course of a project life-cycle. At TSI, efficient programming systems and pragmatic attitudes are combined in developing realistic programs for projects. Services offered in this area include the following, as may be needed:
- Establishing and administering project management processes, policies and procedures.
- Employing best practices for client projects, including the Earned Value Management (EVM), Risk Management, and Subcontractor Management.
- Incorporating key systems and tools for project management and reporting and ensuring practical use of PRINCE2 and/or Managing Successful Programs (MSP), especially for multi-location and multi-site projects.
- Enhancing commercial awareness and sound project-accounting practices and incorporating them in client project-management practices and day-to-day operations.
- Establishing excellent customer relationships and responding to client’s requests.
- Supervising project managers and creating project plans and programs while ensuring their enforcement on an ongoing basis.
- Controlling and closing out project processes to ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
- Establishing project documentation for implementation, testing and delivery.
- Ensuring full implementation of QA/QC plans and procedures by the consultant/contract.
- Conducting progress meetings and ensuring that proper action is taken by all parties.
- Managing and coordinating final handover, including completion of snag-lists and warranty callbacks.
- Preparing both the overall project and the program master schedule.
- Developing project-management organization charts.
- Creating workflow and paper-flow diagrams in the course of the project life-cycle
- Designing dash boards that provide bar-chart graphical display of time schedules, equipment-allocation plans, and other aspects of the project, as may be needed.
- Creating Gant charts.
- Completing time scheduling and monitoring program package in form of CPM (time-phased CPMs and function-phased CPMs).
- Developing construction-program process charts that allow assessment of the state of project development at any time.
- Providing maintenance and repair schedules.
- Disseminating program and project communications to enable effective interaction between all team members—including the client team, the consulting engineering team, the contractors, the suppliers, and the executive teams.
- Supplying project reports and business intelligence to enable proper control of the project by all team members.