Your organization, team and career will reap the benefits from our proven methodology and experience.
We can train, mentor, and provide your organization’s teams with a system that can be used to supercharge their efforts.
How Teams Triumph with the Project Success Method®
Organizations challenged with large complex projects are achieving successful outcomes using PSI’s Project Success Method®. PSI’s methodology is not software-specific and requires no prior project management training or professional certification. The Project Success Method is designed for easy learning, implementation and maximum effectiveness. In fact, when used in conjunction with PSI project consulting, organizations are able to implement the Project Success Method rapidly — in as little as two days.
The Project Success Method employs a consensus-building approach that promotes:
- Team ownership with mutual accountability and support
- The development of an actionable and realistic plan
- A disciplined and tenacious approach to control
Member Specific Benefits
The PSI consulting group is capable of integrating with client management teams to implement the Project Success Method® across an organization in engineering, product development, marketing, special events, operations, system development, IT and project management groups. In fact, many of our clients have chosen to engage in our professional services for more than 31 years.
Executives
- Discipline and consistency of approach across all projects
- Regular progress reports on project status
- Impact on bottom line of projects completed successfully with respect to quality, time, and cost
Project Sponsors
- Clear analysis and documentation of project scope, objectives, stakeholders, constraints, and risks
- Enhanced performance and career growth
Project Managers
- Fostering of a personal connection with their team
- Superior process for developing the project schedule
- Proactive approach that identifies and solves problems as early as possible
Entire Teams
- Participation in planning which ensures a stronger plan and commitment to it
- Clear responsibilities and performance expectations
- Reduced chaos, stress, frustration, and conflict
Shifting the Worry Curve®
Imagine that a company must execute a strategically important project, such as the development of a new product, software system or marketing program.
At the start of the project, the project team will have a very low worry level. In the face of seemingly minor issues or delays, one might hear the common refrain, “There’s plenty of time to get the project done.” We call this honeymoon period “Uniformed Optimism.” During this period, project worry is postponed.
As the project deadline begins to creep over the horizon, the project team gradually transitions into “Vague Concern.” Its symptoms include that queasy feeling in the project manager’s stomach whenever he/she thinks about the project (so they just don’t think about it). Team cohesion begins to crumble as team members begin to think about their career and build defensive strategies to shift potential blame. Worry escalates!
Like a snowball going downhill, vague concern turns to “Panic” – the deadline arrives. With the project nowhere near completion, worry shoots through the roof….and money starts flying out the door. In addition to the budget getting blown, the quality is compromised as content is dropped and quality assurance steps are skipped. The deadline comes….and goes!
The project ends in disaster as competent, dedicated project members lose their professional credibility, reputations and quite possibly their jobs. What’s worse, the cycle just continues. While the panic over one project continues, other projects are starting – doomed for the same fate.
Are you ready to say, “Enough!”? Find out how you can stop the cycle and shift your worry curve with the Project Success Method. If you would like to get your own copy of our “Shifting the Worry Curve” primer, simply contact us and you will be able to download one for yourself.
