Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Services
Advisicon delivers professional best practices-based project management, program management, and portfolio management consulting and training services to clients throughout North and Latin America.
Project Management Consulting and Training
Advisicon’s PMI-certified consultants and trainers understand your project management goals and challenges. Through our hands-on project management consulting we can help you improve your project management practices with practical solutions based on professional project management best practices and assist in the development of solid project management processes.
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Project Management Process Development |
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Project Management Tools and Template |
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Training and Coaching |
Advisicon’s dynamic, consultative approach to training ensures that participants understand the concepts and best practices of project management methodology, and know how to put them into practice. Advisicon delivers customized, consultative instructor-led project management training using our own course manuals, process flowchart, and electronic tools, and templates that we have developed to give your organization the project management tools to ensure maximum knowledge transfer.
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Practical Project Management
Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close-out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry project management best practices. Students will learn project management concepts, helpful standard terminology, efficient project management process development, application of effective project management tools, and established project management methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®). (Available in 1, 2, and 3-day configurations.) |
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Mastering Requirements Gathering
Learn how to gather and manage project requirements successfully. This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services. Participants will learn how to define and document high-level business requirements, identify user classes and representatives, select elicitation techniques, differentiate and prioritize functional and non-functional requirements from users, identify business rules, and how to review and verify project requirements with stakeholders. (Available in 1 and 2-day configurations.) |
Project Management, Project Administration, and Project Scheduling Services
Advisicon offers clients professional project management, project administration, and project scheduling services.
Our professional project managers, project administrators, and project schedulers can help support your project managers
and project teams. Let our project management professionals maintain your project's administrative tasks. Our project schedulers,
especially knowledgeable with Microsoft® Project scheduling, can assist your team by building, updating, integrating, and
maintaining your project schedules, so your personnel can stay focused on your projects.
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Project Management Assessment and Project Management Consulting
Advisicon can help you by assessing your project management processes and personnel, PMO, and project tools. Advisicon uses OPM3 and other standard project management assessment tools, as well as customized project management assessments based on your needs and goals.
Advisicon offers you expert guidance, resources, and project management consulting to help you develop your project management processes, personnel, tools, and project management culture.
Project Management Office (PMO) Consulting
Advisicon helps clients develop and implement both tactical and strategic Project Management Offices (PMOs). From developing and applying project management best practices, templates, tools, and standard processes to aligning projects, programs, and portfolios with organizational priorities, Advisicon can help your Project Management Office achieve its objectives.
Advisicon has helped many clients develop and implement standardized project management methodologies, including effective project management process development, that are beneficial assets to their organizational culture and allow them to grow from one level of project management maturity to the next.
Learn how Advisicon has helped clients develop their Project Management Offices to guide their projects and teams to deliver consistent,
successful projects.
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PMO Integration Using Microsoft® Office Project and Microsoft® Project Server
Growing numbers of leaders are leveraging the power of EPM applications to enable them to quickly view and monitor the progress of their strategic initiatives and projects across their whole enterprise. The level of business analysis required to do Project Portfolio Management effectively requires advanced tools.
The technologies developed to support Project Portfolio Management are referred to as Enterprise Project Management or Enterprise Portfolio Management applications, or EPM. EPM technology delivers real business intelligence to support and direct decision-making and management . . . far beyond what has been possible in the past. EPM is a rapidly growing area of business technology and the results are real.
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Align projects with strategic business objectives |
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Measure projects contributions to strategic business objectives |
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Plan, budget and deliver projects consistently . . . and successfully |
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View and track all project resources, tasks, activities, and milestones |
Do you want to integrate your PMO with Microsoft® Office Project and Microsoft® Project Server?
Advisicon is uniquely qualified to help you!
As Microsoft’s only Gold Certified Enterprise Project Management Partner in the Pacific Northwest, Advisicon helps organizations develop Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions by effectively utilizing project management technologies, such as Microsoft® Office Project and Microsoft® Project Server 2007.
Advisicon delivers integrated Microsoft® Project Server enterprise project management and enterprise portfolio management (EPM) implementations to deliver targeted, sustained results:
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Enterprise-wide project resource and schedule visibility |
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Enterprise-wide project collaboration |
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Key business metrics analysis and reporting |
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Centralized project data management and project management reporting |
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Management dashboards with key performance indicators (KPIs) |
Advisicon specializes in implementing Microsoft® Project Server. Advisicon’s Microsoft® certified consultants deliver this deep expertise to our clients and help them use this powerful EPM solution to deliver sustained results. Advisicon’s EPM solution delivery process is designed to provide immediate and measurable results for organizations. Advisicon’s effective and efficient implementation of EPM solutions includes the installation, configuration and customization of appropriate tools:
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Microsoft® Office Project |
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Microsoft® Office Project Server |
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Microsoft® Windows SharePoint Services |
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Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server |
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Custom Web Parts |
Advisicon delivers expert, consultative role-based training for four standard project contributor roles:
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Project Managers and Resource Managers |
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Team Members |
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Executives and Portfolio Managers |
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System Administrators |
PMO Integration Using Microsoft® SharePoint
Advisicon helps organizations develop project management solutions and EPM solutions using Microsoft® Windows SharePoint Services and/or Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Advisicon’s Project Management Microsoft® SharePoint solutions are customized and designed to provide immediate and measurable results for all levels of organizations.
