Project Management Office

A project management office (PMO) will enable effective decisions to be made using portfolio selection and management processes.   The PMO will provide a governance structure that focuses on project execution, outcomes and measurable results. 

Dark Star Technology associates use the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) methods, along with our well-proven processes to manage challenging, high visibility projects. As a result, faster adoption takes place and provides the client sustainable results quicker.

By blending professional consulting and staffing services, Dark Star Technology delivers the knowledge and expertise to drive your project and the resources to carry it out.  We focus on providing the right people, skills, knowledge, and experience to deliver the results you demand.  We understand our clients’ needs are unique and tailor our services to provide specific solutions that enhance business value.  We also leverage your existing resources and talents, which minimize cost and maximize value with experience and knowledge transfer.  As your business partner, we work together with you to determine the best solution, involve the right resources, and manage to success.

Our project management consulting services assists organizations in bridging the gap between organizational strategic intent and project management goals. Our goal is to empower our client’s to make important strategic and operational decisions quickly and translate those decisions into actions.

Chief among our Project Management consulting services is execution. More precisely, successful project execution results from activities that are well planned, communicated, aligned from top-to-bottom, monitored, controlled, managed and rewarded.  Hence, strategic execution greatly benefits from effective and efficient project management approaches and disciplines.

Our project management consulting services improves strategic execution with the following activities:

·      Portfolio Management - Organizes executive-level strategic direction into portfolios of project-based work; each prioritized, sequenced and resourced appropriately

·      Governance and Oversight - Provides a methodology for tracking actual vs. estimated work effort, delivery of anticipated outcomes, budgetary and performance metrics, benefit realization and milestone-based funding gates

·      Project Management - Recognized standard methodology and approach to organizing, planning, monitoring and controlling task-based work designed to deliver a specific outcomes

·      Resource Management - Track and report on organizational resources allocated to the strategic plan

·      Communications Management - Information collection, formatting and dissemination from a “single source of truth”

Turning strategies into reality requires constant investment into management resources. Project managers must be nimble in their ability to adjust course as facts, results and market changes dictate.  Additionally, appropriate mitigation plans to known, expected, and even unexpected issues and risks will help to smooth out impacts that change, both good and bad, anything to the life cycle of the project.