Our Project Management Advisory Services Practice is based on the leading
international standards and best practices of project management- the “Project
Management Body of Knowledge” of the Project Management Institute.

Why You Might Need Our Project Management Advisory and Training Services If you need to:

• Shorten time-to-market for your new products or services
• Increase efficiency of use of resources allocated to projects
• Ensure projects are completed early and within budget
• Stop losing customers and money because projects are delivered late and over-budget respectively
• Improve accuracy and quality of project budget estimates
• Avoid or drastically reduce project risk
• Source a project management expert to help you kick off a project or keep a project team on track
• Empower your project teams with knowledge, skills and techniques required for successful implementation of projects
• Get coaching for executives and project teams
• Create awareness and appreciation of project management amongst your busy executives
• Set up or structure a Project Management Office (PMO) for your organization
• Build project management standards for your organization
• Source a virtual project planning and control office for your organization
• Source a virtual Programme Office
• Radically change your organization’s approach to project implementation for a much improved bottom-line and competitive edge
• Implement an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) model for your organization
• Assure successful definition, planning, monitoring, control, completion and evaluation of Central Government, City, Constituency Development Fund or County projects ITS & Project Associates brings hard-won expertise in project management best practices to improve the way your organization delivers projects.

ITS & Project Associates brings hard-won expertise in project management best practices to improve the way your organization delivers projects.

Virtual Project Planning & Control Office

This service provides the mechanics of building and maintaining the project management plan, project monitoring and control. Our planning and control facilitator will:

• Lead the project team in initiation of the project,
• Lead the project team in risk identification and response planning.
• Lead the project team in the development of an integrated cost, schedule and resource plan.
• Facilitate project team meetings.
• Maintain the project plan.
• Be responsible for other additional project management activities such as progress and risk monitoring, reporting to management, evaluation etc, depending on contracted service scope.

This service would be required by medium to large private organizations, public sector organizations that understand and value the benefits to be gained from professional project management yet they don’t possess project management capacity or can’t spare a project manager for an important or strategic project or one that is mission critical and has to be successfully completed within strict deadlines or for an organization that wishes to keep its technical experts focused on building products and solving problems without distracting them with additional project management responsibilities.

The subject matter experts will only be required to provide certain input to project planning, such as Work Breakdown, duration and cost estimation.

Virtual Programme Office

This service provides the mechanics of setting up, structuring and maintaining a programme office, an office to be responsible and accountable for execution of several projects that have a common goal or set of goals. Our facilitator(s) will:

• Define programme goals
• Communicate programme goals to project teams
• Provide guidance on prioritization of projects
• Provide guidance on sequencing of projects
• Provide briefings to external service providers and suppliers
• Coordinate execution of projects
• Provide oversight over all projects
• Provide programme level status reporting
• Estimate programme budget
• Provide programme cost tracking and reporting
• Review project handover/closure reports

This service would be required by medium to large private organizations, public sector organizations that understand and value the benefits to be gained from professional project management yet can’t spare a senior executive to manage the programme or don’t have one with the requisite technical, project and programme management skills.

Coaching for Executives and Project Teams

Your management team may need to learn more about project management, but they have limited time to attend training. They want what they hear to be relevant to your organization and your issues. This seminar will be customized to meet the specific interests of your audience, and help your executives understand how they contribute to project success.

The benefit for your organization is that executives:

• Understand how the discipline of project management can increase your productivity, improve communication and cut development costs.
• Remove the mystery of project success by learning proven techniques to define, plan and control a project.
• Establish a foundation for project success within your organization with a systematic approach to managing projects.

This service would be required by medium to large private organizations, public sector organizations that are embarking on an important or strategic programme or project or one that is mission critical and has to be successfully completed within strict deadlines, and that understand and value the benefits to be gained from professional project management yet they don’t have a full time project manager or virtual project office.

Project Management Office (PMO) Implementation

The organizational entity responsible for project management capability has become known as the Project Management Office (PMO). PMOs are to be found in organizations that carry out many projects, whether internal or customer projects and have discovered the immense strategic benefit to be realized from having a permanent PMO. The investment in the PMO can be compared to the investment in the office of a CFO or controller—somebody must be responsible for building and maintaining the accounting infrastructure. Likewise, the PMO is responsible for the project management infrastructure. The investment in staffing PMOs is one example of the degree to which organizations consider project management a strategic strength. Could project management be a strategic strength for your organization? If yes, this service is for you.

A Project Management Office is critical to integrating project management into the culture and processes of your organization. To help you build your PMO faster, we can provide advice to address these key PMO success factors:

• Put the PMO in the right place in the organizational structure.
• Maximize effectiveness with appropriate authority and scope. • Clearly identify the PMO’s responsibilities.
• Advise on staffing of the PMO
• Develop a strong charter that keeps early PMO activities focused and establishes consistent expectations for the PMO among the stakeholders.
• Develop a PMO review and update plan because a PMO’s duties evolve as project management culture matures in an organization.

Application-specific Project Planning & Control

Under this service, we provide an independent project manager in the case where we are not providing consultancy service. In those cases where we are the consulting service provider for project types listed below, the project management service would typically be bundled and purchased together with the consultancy service.

• Business Continuity Management Planning
• Business Continuity Management Strategy Implementation
• Electronic Document Management Implementation
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Primary or backup datacenter Implementation
• ICT Infrastructure Implementation

Turnkey ICT projects This service is targeted at organizations that have a need to implement any of the above projects.

Consistent use of project management methods builds skills and organizational maturity. A common methodology is the foundation of long term project management excellence. Our project management training and capacity building is aimed at building project management excellence and maturity in individuals and organizations across all sizes and sectors.

Your management team may need to learn more about project management, but they have limited time to attend training. They want what they hear to be relevant to your organization and your issues. This seminar will be customized to meet the specific interests of your audience, and help your executives understand how they contribute to project success.

The benefit for your organization is that executives:

• Understand how the discipline of project management can increase your productivity, improve communication and cut development costs.
• Remove the mystery of project success by learning proven techniques to define, plan and control a project.
• Establish a foundation for project success within your organization with a systematic approach to managing projects.

This service would be required by medium to large private organizations, public sector organizations that are embarking on an important or strategic programme or project or one that is mission critical and has to be successfully completed within strict deadlines, and that understand and value the benefits to be gained from professional project management yet they don’t have a full time project manager or virtual project office.

Principles of Project Management

This course presents proven techniques and tips that are applied by skilled and experienced project managers.

Specific techniques such as Work Breakdown Structure and Resource leveling, activity sequencing, duration and cost estimation are presented, with opportunities to practice each technique. Emphasis is placed not only on how to perform the technique, but also on when and why. It’s the knowledge every project manager needs to succeed.

As project management applies to all sectors, the material presented is relevant to every sector or industry. To support the effective application of the techniques learned, the project life cycle is related to development life cycles (process methodologies). In addition, real world project challenges, especially those unique to Africa, presented in class offer hands-on opportunities for participants to identify specific project management tools to help solve each problem.

This 5-day course is targeted at project managers and team leaders. Managers with multiple projects and team members with special assignments will get the greatest benefit from this course. Indeed anyone associated with projects will benefit from understanding the tools of project management that are covered in this course.

Practical Project Management

This is an accelerated learning course. More time is spent on practical aspects and techniques. The traditional instructor-led class is augmented with a planning workshop that provides an opportunity for participants to plan one of their own projects in class. By applying the course topics to their own project, individuals learn the concepts better and catch their mistakes in class. The workshop component is embedded in the course so that each lecture topic is immediately followed by the workshop component. For example, after the Work Breakdown Structure lecture, teams would create their own Work Breakdown Structure.

This 5-day course is targeted at project managers and team leaders and members who have a need to apply their knowledge immediately such those tasked with an upcoming project or project teams from the same department or organization.

Advanced Project and Risk Management Techniques

This course covers in greater detail selected topics from the Principles of Project Management course and then goes on to explore project risk management techniques.

Failure to proactively plan for and actively manage project risk is one of the most frequently cited causes of project failure. This course enables project managers to systematically manage the uncertainty inherent in every project to minimize the threats while maximizing opportunities. It’s a fine balance that the best project managers know how to achieve.

Participants will learn a step-by-step process to identify and respond to project risks that occur throughout the project life cycle, from the initial business case through implementation. They will also learn to establish specific budgets to account for both known and unknown project risks.

This is a 5-day course. The target audience for this course is project managers and others who have experience executing the principles of project management. This course requires previous attendance of our Principles of Project Management, Practical Project Management courses or similar courses or experience with the principles of project management.

Customized Courses

Courses can be customized for organizations that require only some modules of the standard courses, have time constraints or wish to apply certain techniques to very specific application areas. Available specific application areas include Business Continuity Planning, Electronic Document Management, Business Process Management and ICT infrastructure implementations.

Low Cost Building Construction

We project-manage and build low cost buildings, based on high tech, low cost eco-friendly soil/cement interlocking blocks.

Our Delivery Capability

Our consultants have been improving project results for our clients since 2007. The are experienced project managers and project team leaders who have delivered many successful projects in Kenya, especially in banking, insurance and manufacturing. They hold Project Management Professional (PMP) certification of the Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org).

In addition, they possess many years of corporate consulting experience in business continuity planning.

Project Management Expertise Pool

Our focus has always been on project-based assignments. Our trainers, consultants and associates have field tested expertise and are either certified by the Project Management Institute or are actively pursuing the certification.

Since 2007, we have assembled a network of carefully screened associate consultants and experts who can be mobilized quickly to create a multi-disciplinary project team to meet requirements of large and multi-disciplinary projects.

Training Experience

We have over 10 years of teaching and training experience. Since 2007, we have conducted training for managers and senior executives of many leading corporate organizations in Kenya.

Powerful Results

Everything we do is designed to bring you better project performance, faster, so you get the best return on your training and consulting investments.

Target Market

Our target client organization is any medium or large corporate or public sector organization that has an overriding need to radically change for the better its approach to project planning and implementation, and assure consistent project success